Utilities

As a utility, your primary goal is to ensure reliable service. However, you must also protect the grid and minimize operating expenses. With the increasing popularity of electric vehicles worldwide, providing EV charging services in your region will be yet another challenge. Successful deployment hinges on your ability to create an efficient, cost-effective EV charging infrastructure that can scale rapidly to accommodate growing demand. Offering differentiated billing models for residential customers and the general public use is also a critical success factor.

ChargePoint enables utilities to provide reliable end-to-end service and scale their EV charging infrastructures to millions of charging spots. Integrate EV charging into smart grid operations while monitoring and reporting on energy use, and actively manage energy load (demand/response), all in a single platform. ChargePoint lets you incorporate billing for public EV energy consumption into the utility bills of your residential customers, while providing pay-for-use access to non-customers.

• Integrate charging stations into your smart grid operations and actively manage load with real-time data and fine-grained control.
• Access detailed analytics on energy used, GhG emissions avoided and other metrics, and adjust energy flow in 1% increments for selected stations or station groups.
• Choose to integrate billing for public EV energy consumption into the utility bills of your residential customers, while still allowing pay-for-use access for non-customers.
• Receive charging station software updates without service disruption to service.
• Enjoy remote station diagnosis, repair and upgrades, and 24x7 station-side support, regardless of the charging station hardware.
• Scale your charging operations easily by simply applying established policies to new stations.
• Set your fee structures by time, session, energy dispensed, driver or group, or time of day.
• Allow the ChargePoint service to handle payment processing for you, or opt to integrate billing and reporting into existing systems.
• Send time-of-use pricing signals to drivers, varying price by time of day.

Learn more about using ChargePoint for in your municipality.
Download Utilities Solutions Brief