Turnkey commercial EV charging, from strategy to managed savings

As planning ranges: a Level 2 port runs roughly $4,000–$8,000 installed, and a DC fast port $55,000–$140,000. If your electrical service needs upgrading, add $8,000–$25,000 — or $20,000–$60,000 where a full service upgrade is required. Against that, the federal Section 30C credit can offset 30% (capped at $100,000 per charger), and utility make-ready rebates often cover $5,000–$50,000+ of the grid-side work depending on your utility. What moves you within those ranges is distance from existing service, trenching, and local permitting. And here’s the line most quotes leave out entirely — what the site will cost to run. The demand charge those chargers add every month is a real operating cost, and it’s often larger than people expect relative to the install. Run your own numbers → · Estimate the monthly demand charge →

Yes, and that’s the main reason to do it. Your demand charge is set by the highest 15-minute interval of power draw in the billing period — so if charging can be shaped to avoid colliding with your building’s own peak, you never set that high interval in the first place. Energy Guardian does this in real time against your specific utility tariff, cutting demand charges 35–55%. At one dealership we measured a 371.3 kW peak held to 57.3 kW by intervening in 2.6% of intervals. See the interval data →

Load management is controlling when and how fast chargers draw power so the site stays within an electrical and financial budget. Two things it gets you: you may avoid a service upgrade, because ten chargers sharing a circuit intelligently don’t need ten chargers’ worth of capacity; and you avoid setting an expensive peak. For a workplace this matters more than most sites, because everyone arrives within the same half hour and plugs in at once. Full explainer →

Load balancing distributes available power across chargers so no circuit is overloaded — it’s an electrical safety and capacity function, and most networked chargers do some version of it. Load management is the broader job: deciding how much total power the site should draw at any moment, based on the building’s other loads and what your utility charges at that hour. Balancing keeps the breaker from tripping. Management keeps the bill down. Guardian does the second, and it reads building load to do it — so when an air conditioner or a shop tool kicks on, charger output comes down.

In order: confirm what you actually need (how many ports, what speed, for whom), find out what your electrical service can support and what the utility will require, get your rate schedule reviewed — most commercial customers have options and are not on the best one — then design, permit, install, commission, and manage. The sequence matters. Deciding on hardware first is the most common and most expensive mistake, because the site conditions and the tariff are what determine whether the project pencils. How we size a project →

Usually yes. EVready holds Sourcewell cooperative contract #041525-EVRY, and most public agencies can purchase through a cooperative contract in place of their own competitive solicitation — the competitive process was already run by Sourcewell. Your procurement office will confirm what applies in your jurisdiction. How the Sourcewell path works →