Through the partnership, utilities can now manage customer-owned Enel X smart EV charging stations through EnergyHub's Mercury DERMS platform, expanding the breadth of EnergyHub's EV charging solution and increasing the EV charging resources available for utilities to manage. Utilities including
Preparing for transportation electrification has emerged as a top priority for utilities. Bloomberg New Energy predicts EVs will account for the majority of passenger car sales by 2040. According to the same research, smart EV charging technology, which encourages customers to charge at optimal times, is estimated to save grid operators 30 to 70 percent of electrical infrastructure upgrade costs, representing hundreds of millions to billions of dollars a year in savings.
'We see managed EV charging as an important and growing piece of our DER portfolio, which we leverage not just during the hottest days of the year, but to manage demand year round,' said
The partnership with Enel X, with over 60,000 consumer charging stations deployed nationwide, expands the ecosystem of EV chargers that utilities can manage with EnergyHub's Mercury DERMS.
'Working with EnergyHub and Enel X allows us to partner with our customers to manage flexible EV charging load, preparing us for the future of transportation electrification, while also supporting the grid as whole' said
EnergyHub and Enel X are working with electric utilities to harness the benefits of EV adoption and smart charging for the grid. The partnership enables utilities to grow their DER portfolios deployed with EnergyHub by managing enrolled Enel X JuiceBox smart charging stations in a service territory. Through the integration of EnergyHub's Mercury DERMS platform with Enel X's cloud-based JuiceNet smart EV charging software, utilities can forecast load, intelligently instruct, and monitor load results from customer-owned Enel X charging stations.
'Preparing for mass adoption of electric vehicles and EV charging infrastructure is one of the most critical steps utilities should be taking today to lead the energy transition,' said
Utility time-of-use (TOU) rates incentivize EV owners with Level 2 smart charging stations to utilize off-peak charging, generating bill savings for the customer and reducing strain on the grid during peak periods. In
The integration of EnergyHub's Mercury DERMS plaform with Enel X's JuiceNet smart EV charging software platform is enabled by JuiceNet, which optimizes the energy consumption of the JuiceBox EV charging station to align with grid conditions, while ensuring customer mobility requirements are met. EnergyHub's Mercury DERMS platform allows utilities to monitor, coordinate, and orchestrate EV charging in concert with other DERs. EnergyHub works with utilities on multiple types of EV management solutions: time of use (TOU) enablement, peak management, and dynamic load shaping. EnergyHub and Enel X previously partnered to provide utilities with access to certain portfolios of Enel X commercial and industrial demand response assets.
About EnergyHub
EnergyHub is the distributed energy resources (DERs) management platform for utilities. EnergyHub's Mercury DERMS allows utilities to partner with their customers to deliver more powerful demand side management and grid services using the industry's leading ecosystem of DERs. Our Bring Your Own Device service makes millions of existing connected homes available to utilities for demand response without a single truck roll. Over 40 utilities rely on EnergyHub's platform to operationalize various configurations of programs and services.
About Enel X
Enel X is Enel's global business line dedicated to the development of innovative products and services in sectors where energy is showing the greatest potential for transformation: cities, homes, industries and transportation. The company is a global leader in the advanced energy solution sector, with more than 6.3 GW of demand response capacity, 110 MW of installed storage capacity, more than 90,000 utility bills managed across 104 countries, and around 130,000 public and private smart EV charging stations available around the world.
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