Green Charge Networks, BACC team up on smart management for EV charging

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative, a public-private group of civic and business leaders, and facility energy management company Green Charge Networks have partnered to pave the way toward managing electrical load and cost-effective integration of the coming EV rollout. Prosser Group's Green Charge Networks develops systems to optimize facility energy management and integrate existing systems into the smart grid. Green Charge also is working with Bank of America and Pacific Gas & Electric and recently won a $10 million Smart Grid Demonstration Grant from DOE for smart grid demonstration projects in New Jersey and New York. As Jesse Berst said in a commentary a few months back, "We may soon have worldwide standards for plugging cars into charging stations. Shouldn’t we also insist on standards for plugging charging stations into utilities?" With that in mind, this energy management and integration initiative seems like a step in the right direction — but we'd still like to see those standards.

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