Electric Nation
2016 - 2019
Smart Charging Project

Charging EVs without stressing the electricity network

CrowdCharge supplied a back-office system that controlled power delivery and took instructions from drivers. The chargers fed information back to CrowdCharge, such as whether a car was plugged in and, if so, whether it was charging. Over the course of the trial, two million hours’ worth of charging activity data were captured. CrowdCharge could also send instructions to the chargers, telling individual chargers to switch off or reduce the charging rate, as would be the case in a genuine smart charging network. This was key to the trial, as it simulated expected demand management. Thorough testing of the algorithms was carried out before the systems were delivered to participants.