SolarCharge is a platform for local businesses and community organisations to share excess solar energy with their employees, customers and wider community through smart EV charging.
How it works
Sites with solar and EV chargers
You’ve already invested in your rooftop solar array and EV chargers, why not make the most of them? By hosting your EV chargers on SolarCharge, you’ll maximise onsite usage of the solar energy you’re generating by diverting any excess to charging plug-in EVs.
With SolarCharge, plug-in EVs can be charged with the excess solar energy your system generates before the remaining energy is exported to the grid. The energy that goes into the plug-in EVs can be charged at or above your export buy-back rate, to ensure that providing this service doesn’t leave you out of pocket.
You provide discounted charging to your employees, customers and community, and minimise the pressure your excess solar energy puts on the national grid.
Choose to charge your plug-in EV using solar energy generated onsite that would otherwise be exported to the grid. The sun doesn’t always shine, but when it does, you’re lightening the load of your EV charging on both your wallet and the national grid!
And because we know that sometimes you just need to get where you’re going, there is also the option to charge from the grid like other public chargers.
SolarCharge makes EV charging look like seasonal produce - cheaper when it’s locally produced and abundant, more expensive when it’s not.
Drivers of plug-in EVs
Benefits
For host sites
Improved onsite utilisation of solar energy
Faster payback periods of clean energy assets
Provide EV charging for customers and employees
Contribute to community resilience
For EV drivers
More low cost charging options away from home
Share in the abundance of solar energy (even if you don’t have it at home)
Greater energy security through V2L (and eventually V2H) technology
For the grid
Additional charging infrastructure available
Reduced pressure from excess solar during the day
Reduced pressure from EV charging at night
Enhanced community resilience