With the steep rise in electric vehicles in the UK, the 2030 deadline for new petrol and diesel vehicles looming and the compulsory installation of EV chargers on all new built commercial and residential sites it’s no wonder there is such a demand for EV charger installations.
There is also an ever increasing pressure for employers to provide provision for their employees.
A workplace system has much larger factors to consider when designing, usually the chargers are 3 phase and have a much higher power rating than standard domestic and are in use during the day when the power consumption of the building is at its highest. This all creates issues with the maximum demand of the building as a whole, which must be measured and used in the design of the new system.
Most manufacturers offer fixed load limiting whereby we can set the maximum load the chargers can use in total. This works in theory but cannot take into account how much power the building is using elsewhere or how much capacity is being added by microgeneration such as solar PV.
Schneider electric UK offer a dynamic control system which can monitor the power consumption and generation of the building, it then tells each individual charger how much power they can individually use. This clever system can allow for maximum efficiency using the total available power without ever overloading.
We are currently rolling this system out on a 4 x 22KW charger installation to a London office building and will upload the project when complete.
If your business could benefit from installing an EV charging infrastructure, then you can use the attached form to request a free site survey and quotation.
