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EV charging infrastructure for commercial buildings and workplace applications

 

 

 

 

 

Benefits that extend to all your building's power needs

Eaton is developing comprehensive solutions to integrate EV charging infrastructure and distributed energy resources (DERs). Our solutions work to optimize sustainability, resiliency and cost-effectiveness. Let us help you implement electric vehicle charging at your site.

Boost your business with commercial charging options

At a rapid pace, more and more drivers are upgrading to electric vehicles—and that means they will expect to have charging options wherever they go. If you own or manage property that hosts any business or service where customers visit your location, you’ll want to provide EV charging.
With our comprehensive portfolio of EVCI software, services and hardware in development, these are just a few of the things you are able to do:
  • Integrate electric vehicle charging infrastructure efficiently into your building
  • Manage and operate your EV chargers easily and cost-effectively
  • Develop a revenue stream from your EV chargers if you want to monetize them
  • Balance the load optimally across your charger network to ensure a good user experience
  • Avoid expensive peak energy prices through peak shaving or load shifting
  • Optimize your energy bill and manage your power use through load shifting

Parking as a business

EV drivers may park for hours, days or even weeks at train stations and airports, while they work in the city, or at events such as baseball and football games or music festivals. These are a few examples of when EV charging can be a business of its own, and it can benefit your business in a variety of ways.
  • Implement a modular, tested and proven charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use
  • Scale up the infrastructure for more capacity or more power when needed
  • Balance the load to ensure a seamless charging experience for users
  • Generate revenue during the day and attract additional EV charging customers during the night

Equip your visitor parking spaces with EV chargers

Visitors to sites such as restaurants, offices, hotels and shopping centers will want the ability to charge different types of electric vehicles for time spans ranging from a couple of hours to overnight. We will help you to select and integrate appropriate infrastructure into your buildings within an ecosystem that can grow as EV uptake accelerates and the energy transition progresses.

Our ecosystem is flexible and scalable, so if you need to support a small EV charger deployment in the short term but anticipate exponential growth, we will be able to help. Discover the ecosystem that supports EV charging and more. Our multifunctional power management solution will have the ability to provide your site with many benefits.

  • Modular charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use that will support a mix of AC and DC chargers and can be scaled up when needed
  • Control over the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your charger network, from installation costs to maintenance and running costs
  • Reliable, convenient EV charging for your customers and visitors, with robust cybersecurity protection
  • User-friendly interfaces that enable you to monitor the energy performance of your building and securely control energy assets

Attract visitors, gain and retain loyalty

Electric vehicle drivers consider availability and ease of charging when they choose business locations to visit. As more providers start to implement fees, price will be a factor too. This makes EV charging an opportunity to increase traffic and win customer loyalty. Customers tend to favor companies that embrace sustainability, so the energy source matters. Generating renewable power on-site for electric vehicle charging is likely to be a marketing advantage and also provide intrinsic benefits. 
  • Transform existing or new car parking spaces into a sustainable EV charging hub
  • Develop modular charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use, load-balanced to mix regular and higher charging speeds
  • Mitigate the expense of new or expanded grid connections and the cost of upgrading power distribution equipment
  • Keep energy costs down by using an energy storage system to maximize the potential of off-peak power
  • Make the most of on-site renewable power generation
  • Optimize your energy bill and manage your power use through load shifting

Time spent is money earned

If you run an entertainment or visitor attraction business, you understand how extended dwell time can boost profitability.

The comprehensive approach we're developing can help you offer your customers and visitors an EV charging experience that is easy to use, so they can enjoy carefree time at your venue while their electric vehicles charge up.

  • Leverage a modular, tested and proven charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use
  • Control your TCO with minimized installation costs thanks to a minimal footprint, low maintenance costs and a reliable charging infrastructure
 
 
  • Provide your customers and guests with an easy-to-use and reliable EV charging infrastructure

Keep your workplace moving

As EV ownership grows, employees will increasingly be driving their own electric vehicles and expect to access vehicle charging while they work. Before long, there may be more EVs than internal combustion engine vehicles parked at workplaces during work hours.

Many workplaces also host vehicle fleets, e.g., company cars for employees and/or delivery vehicles. And if you own or manage a fleet of vehicles, you will likely want to upgrade to electric vehicles, either now or in the future, so you will need EV charging facilities for your vehicles.

These are just some of the things you are able to do with our comprehensive EVCI solutions:

  • Integrate EV charging infrastructure that is secure, flexible and scalable into your building with minimum disruption
  • Operate and manage your EV chargers efficiently and cost-effectively
  • Balance the load optimally across your charger network
  • Avoid expensive peak energy prices through peak shaving or load shifting
  • Run load shifting to manage your power use and control your energy costs

Provide your employees with EV charging capabilities

You want to provide your employees with easy-to-use electric vehicle charging that is suitable for their vehicles and tailored to their needs, whether they park and leave their car for an entire workday or charge more quickly during shorter visits. 

We can help you select and integrate the most suitable EV infrastructure, from a small-scale deployment you can grow over time to a larger deployment for your entire site. We will advise you of any modifications needed to the electrical infrastructure of your buildings to make them ready for EV charging and the energy transition.

  • Operate a modular charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use, mixing AC and DC chargers
  • Easily scale up the infrastructure for more capacity or more power when needed
  • Monitor the energy performance of your building and securely control energy assets
  • Control the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your charger network for employees
  • Make EV charging easy for your employees using your corporate employee radio frequency identification (RFID) cards and select your pricing policy for your visitors
  • Operate charging according to your needs
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Support your energy transition with energy storage

Our energy storage systems are key to accessing renewable, reliable, efficient and safe power management solutions that support your electrification needs—today and in the future.

The key questions are:

How do I balance the load across EVs?

As more EVs get connected, available capacity needs to be shared efficiently among users by balancing the available power capacity among charging stations. EV load balancing sets maximum allowable EV capacity, automatically smoothing total EV peak demand. We will help you efficiently balance the load across your charging stations to optimize costs.

How do I add more EV chargers as demand grows?

Our EV charging infrastructure is built in a way that makes it easy to add new EV chargers as needed. With the physical infrastructure in place, it is quick and easy to add new charging stations to the management system and manage future power capacity issues.

How do I ensure fair sharing of costs?

With the EV charging management system we're developing, you get a fair distribution of cost, which will ensure EV owners pay for their own electricity use and no one else's.
At Eaton, we stand ready to support America’s federal stimulus infrastructure initiatives and build a stronger future for our families and communities. The federal clean energy, stimulus and infrastructure initiatives will fund major improvements to the nation’s transportation and buildings infrastructure to include electric vehicle charging at home, at work and on the go.