New York-based EnergyHub is helping utilities handle electric vehicle demand flexibly with an EV data management system.

Called EnergyHub EV, it is built on the firm’s Mercury DERMS platform. EnergyHub works with more than sixty utilities and in power markets to aggregate and manage more than 700,000 thermostats, electric vehicles and electric vehicle chargers, water heaters, energy storage systems, inverters, and commercial and industrial sites as virtual power plants.

The product enables vehicle-to-grid integration and improves grid efficiency and reliability with a focus on user-friendly, electric vehicle charging management. It supports all electric vehicles and charging stations, aggregates data, and generates insights, manages user rates, incentives, and rebate models, and intelligently optimises charging to deliver value to the user and the grid.

The company claims to provide telematics data from more vehicles than any other product on the market. The EV data management system delivers insights and enables time-varying rates and incentive programmes that allow utilities to optimise driver charging behaviour. Optimised charging offers daily load shifting and targeted distribution capacity relief, laying the foundation for vehicle-to-grid services. A mobile app will allow drivers to personalise charging preferences, increasing value to both utilities and users.

“Leading utilities are preparing now for the mass adoption of EVs,” said Seth Frader-Thompson, CEO of EnergyHub. “EnergyHub EV provides visibility, data and customer authorised control across the ecosystem to improve grid reliability and reduce costs. Most importantly, we make it easy for drivers to participate in load flexibility programmes that ensure their cars are charged when they need them and they can share in the benefits created by these programmes.”

One of EnergyHub’s clients is National Grid.

“We are accelerating electric vehicle adoption and supporting our customers as part of our net zero by 2050 plan,” said Chris Porter, director of customer energy management at National Grid. “EnergyHub’s flexible solution allows us to collaborate with automakers and drivers on one platform, giving us the tools we need to keep our customers connected and engaged.”

EnergyHub EV builds on the company’s bring your own device (BYOD) delivery model and suite of services. This approach allows utilities and partners to deliver EV programmes to their customers that are easy to join, offer choice in vehicles and chargers, and provide rewards.

ChargePoint, an EV charging network, has used this approach.

“Working with EnergyHub provides direct access to these compelling programmes at some of the largest utilities in the USA and ensures EV drivers have a convenient charging experience at home,” said Justin Wilson, director of public policy at ChargePoint.

EnergyHub is an independent subsidiary of Alarm.com, a platform for intelligently connected properties. EnergyHub works with more than sixty utilities in North America to manage more than 2900MW of flexible capacity.