TruePower + EnerGrid: Smarter EV Load Management  for  Every Need

TruePower + EnerGrid: Smarter EV Load Management  for  Every Need

Electric Vehicle (EV) charging presents significant challenges to the stability of the electrical grid. As the number of EVs grows, managing the load and demand from charging stations becomes critical. The TruePower EV charging platform, in combination with the EnerGrid Energy management platform, offers a comprehensive, integrated hardware and software solution to address these challenges.

This solution ensures the availability, quality, and reliability of EV charging while maintaining grid stability. It leverages industry standards like ISO 15118, OCPP, OpenADR, and IEEE 2030 to enable seamless interoperability between EVs, charging equipment (EVSE), and the electrical grid. By integrating with renewable energy sources and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), the platform optimizes energy consumption, supports Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) applications, and helps achieve green energy goals.

Key Challenges in EV Charging

  • Grid Instability: Uncoordinated, high-power EV charging can strain the local and national grid infrastructure, leading to power quality issues, blackouts, and higher energy costs.
  • Operational Inefficiency: Without a robust management system, charging station operators (CPOs) struggle to optimize energy use, manage costs, and provide reliable service to customers.
  • Lack of Interoperability: Disparate systems and protocols can prevent seamless communication between EVs, chargers, and the grid, limiting the potential for advanced energy management.
  • Transaction Clarity: Stakeholders often lack clear, detailed information on energy consumption, sources, and costs, which hinders financial transparency and sustainable practices.

Solution: TruePower + EnerGrid

Jio Platforms Ltd. offers an innovative, cloud-hosted solution that combines two powerful platforms:

  • TruePower EV Charging Platform: This platform manages the day-to-day operations of EV charging, from individual user transactions to comprehensive fleet and facility management. It allows for flexible charging profiles (Tx profiles) based on business rules, operational demand, and customer type (e.g., residential, commercial, fleet). TruePower’s logic engine can adjust charger capacity or current in real-time to manage load, ensuring a consistent charging experience while staying within operational limits.
  • EnerGrid Energy Management Platform: Acting as a companion to TruePower, EnerGrid is an advanced Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS). It provides a high-level, predictive control framework for managing energy and flexibility at scale. EnerGrid forecasts demand, optimizes the use of renewable energy sources and BESS, and supports power purchasing decisions for large operators with multiple charging hubs.

Integrated Innovation and Technical Advantage

The synergy between the TruePower and EnerGrid platforms provides a unified, highly precise, and flexible solution for EV charging load management.

  • Centralized Control and Scalability: A central operator can manage a nationwide network of charging hubs from a single dashboard. EnerGrid provides a holistic view of demand patterns and energy requirements, enabling the operator to set a "control demand" signal for an entire city or hub.
  • Automated Load Management: When a control demand signal is sent to a hub, the TruePower platform’s logic engine takes over. It dynamically adjusts the transactional profiles of individual chargers based on factors such as power costs, charger type, customer SLA, and the new operational demand limit. This ensures that the charging station operates efficiently without exceeding its allocated power limit.
  • DER Optimization: The integrated system intelligently utilizes onsite Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), such as solar power and BESS. When demand needs to be managed, the orchestration logic first taps into these DERs, and only when necessary does it send a control demand signal to TruePower to reduce grid reliance.
  • Business Value: This integrated solution empowers EV hub operators to:
    • Reduce operational costs by optimizing energy use and leveraging DERs.
    • Increase grid reliability by balancing load and minimizing stress on the power infrastructure.
    • Enhance customer satisfaction by ensuring charger availability and a consistent charging experience.
    • Simplify transactions with clear, detailed data on energy consumption and sources.

By combining the precision of TruePower with the predictive, scalable control of EnerGrid, this solution delivers consistent business value and supports the transition to a sustainable energy ecosystem.

-Balakumar P

VP-Engineering

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