Electric vehicle charging

EV charging for new and existing residential buildings

Residential charging - multi-user charging made easy

If you need to provide multi-user EV charging for homeowners, leaseholders or tenants, who live in buildings such as apartment blocks, you have a great opportunity to prepare your building for the energy transition.

There are many reasons to be thinking about energy transition, whether you are a building owner or manager, a property developer, a homeowner association or residents co-operative. Eaton's approach is suited to new-build and existing multi-family buildings, without any complex renovations. It is scalable to ensure a smooth transition from one charger to a full set of chargers, while at the same time ensuring optimum capacity for all users and a fair distribution of costs.

Our Buildings as a Grid approach is strategic. It involves analysing the energy management and power distribution needs of your entire building or site to define the most efficient EV charging eco-system. The outcome is a flexible, scalable approach that turns your building into an energy hub and yields long-lasting benefits whether you are working on a new project or retrofitting an existing property.

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Benefit from a multifunctional ecosystem

The ecosystem we develop for you will support all your power needs including multi-user EV charging that is easy to use and cost-effective to run. You will be in control. We have designed our Buildings as a Grid approach to be the most comprehensive and integrated energy transition offer on the market for building owners.

Balance the load optimally across the electric vehicle chargers in use.
Employ peak shaving to avoid expensive peak energy prices.
Run load shifting to help you manage your power use.
Distribute costs in any proportion amongst building users.
Monetise EV charging to create a revenue stream, if required.
Integrate self-generated power from renewable sources, such as solar panels, to reduce costs.

EV charging infrastructure for existing buildings

EV adoption is accelerating. In a residential building with communal parking, some residents may already have EVs, and they will undoubtedly want charging facilities for their vehicles. Your response at this stage requires a lot of decision-making because the first charger you install will be followed by many others, sooner or later. The challenge is not when and how to build the first charger, but how to plan for the longer term.

The key questions are:

How can EV charging costs be shared fairly?
Can more chargers be added to meet future needs?
How can available power capacity be shared?

Our approach will help you plan according to the evolving needs of your residents. You can start with a few chargers and add more over time, while ensuring optimised charging at all times through load balancing.

If the building already generates renewable energy from a source such as solar photovoltaics (PV), that’s a very desirable way to reduce costs futher, and boost sustainability, too. Energy storage systems can be used, with or without renewables, to store low-cost energy for use at times of high demand, taking pressure off the grid while saving you money.

Everything you need to know about EV charging

Our new whitepaper explains the impact of EV charging ‘behind the meter’ and sets out various approaches to meeting power demands sustainably. Read it to understand how to.develop and deliver an EV charging infrastructure that is safe, secure, scalable and cost-effective for multi-user charging in residential buildings.

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EV charging infrastructure for new buildings

The switch to EVs is gaining pace. If you are developing new residential property, your prospective buyers or tenants will expect it to have parking spaces equipped for EV charging. Your key challenges as a developer are to define your offering and find a cost efficient way of ensuring that enough power is available. You will need to provide faciliites to suit all users, with an approach that is scalable because more drivers will switch to EVs as internal combustion engine vehicles are phased out.

Our approach will provide you with:

Charging infrastructure that can grow to supply all EVs that need to use it, now and in the future.
Capacity for homeowners to access additional EV chargers when they need them - for visitors, for example.
Software in an easy-to-use system that enables building managers to distribute power and charging costs fairly.

Efficient load balancing to optimise use of available capacity.
Options for generating renewable energy, and making the most of its low-cost, sustainability benefits with an energy storage system.
An optimum mix of chargers that may include fast chargers for short-stay visitors.

Understand how sector coupling works

For property developers interested in making the most of energy generated from renewable sources, we have written a useful whitepaper on sector coupling, the mechanism widely regarded as a key route to zero carbon.

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How do I balance the load across EVs?

As more EVs get connected, available capacity needs to be shared efficiently amongst the users, by balancing the available power capacity among charging stations. EV load balancing sets maximum allowable EV capacity, automatically smoothing total EV peak demand. Eaton helps you efficiently balance the load across your charging stations to optimise costs.

How do I add more EV chargers as demand grows?

Eaton's EV charging infrastructure is built in a way that makes it easy to add new EV chargers as needed. With the physical infrastructure in place, it is quick and easy to add new charging stations to the management system and manage future power capacity issues.

How do I ensure fair sharing of costs?

With Eaton's EV charging management system you get a fair distribution of cost which will ensure EV owners pay for their own electricity use, and no one else's. The flexible solution allows for different pricing models for residents and sporadic users, for example guest parking spaces or parking spaces that are rented out to non-residents on longer term leases.

Products for a multi-user EV charging ecosystem

Green Motion Duo

EV Charging

Green Motion Duo
Discover Green Motion Building

AC Charging

Discover Green Motion Building
Green Motion DC 30

EV Charging

Green Motion DC 30
xStorage Hybrid

Energy Storage

xStorage Hybrid
xStorage Compact

Energy Storage

xStorage Compact
Building Energy Management Software

Energy Management

Building Energy Management Software

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Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.