Energy Management

Energy Management, a key feature of ChargePoint Platform, enables precise control over the electricity consumption of your EV charging stations. It ensures compliance with your site’s electrical infrastructure limits (e.g., breaker, circuit, panel, or transformer) and electricity tariff constraints. Available in various forms, it ranges from basic limit settings to advanced, AI-driven load distribution that dynamically balances active charging sessions based on factors such as energy tariffs, costs, charging requirements, and departure times.

Energy management focuses on optimizing the use of limited grid connection resources, electrical site infrastructure, and energy to minimize the total cost of ownership for electric vehicles and charging stations and to accelerate The transition to a sustainable mobility system.

For more information on energy management, see Energy Management Benefits.

With ChargePoint, you can manage your energy usage statically and dynamically.

• Static: It is also known as Load Management or Power Sharing, and it is used to protect and share the power on the transformer or breaker level. When configured and enabled, it only ensures that the charging station group will never exceed the power (Peak Shaving) or current limit (Breaker Overload Protection).

• Dynamic: It is also known as Dynamic Load Management, and it can be used for peak shaving or breaker overload protection. By using the dynamic load meter reading, ChargePoint can increase or decrease the power available for the charging station group depending on your installation demand throughout the day. This feature makes sure that the overall site limit of the building and the stations do not exceed the limit.

For more information on creating energy groups, see Energy Groups.