New suite of tools to help fleets manage EV charging needs and grid demand
Charge point management specialist Fuuse has officially launched a new suite of products to enable fleets to deploy and manage EV charging whilst balancing energy supply and overall grid demand.
The FuuseEnergy array of solutions allows businesses to effectively monitor and manage their EV charging infrastructure, pre- and post-installation – and it’s seen as a game changer for fleets transitioning to EVs.
Gary Highton, head of energy, explained: “With increasingly limited electrical capacity in local and on-site grids, there is a greater need to optimise how energy is used.
“As EV adoption accelerates, we have released a unique arsenal of tools to help inform site infrastructure and provide more control over how energy is distributed across your sites. We’re enabling organisations to plan, monitor and react to energy consumption and demand.”
FuuseEnergy complements the firm’s core Fuuse charge point management platform and launches 10 months after it acquired energy management consultancy Envisij, from which many of the latest tools have been developed.
Solutions include Fuuse EnergyMap, which offers organisations a comprehensive audit of energy usage to inform infrastructure decisions by gauging site baseline demand and the effect EV charging will place on that demand.
Fuuse Energy Monitoring is a cloud-based enterprise monitoring solution with options to observe real-time energy usage across a site. It integrates with the Fuuse core platform and enables the efficient deployment of Fuuse’s Multi Level Dynamic Load Balancing to protect sites from capacity spikes and prevent contracted capacity tariff penalties, whilst maximising power to EV chargers as needed.
The new Energy products have already been piloted by Islington County Council, which is preparing to install EV chargers across multiple sites and has used Fuuse EnergyMap to generate a more efficient infrastructure plan and make significant savings on contracted capacity costs.
The Energy suite will also be further developed alongside Fuuse’s core platform capabilities – and the company promises “ground-breaking implications for fleets and EV charging sites” that will be revealed later this year.