From a distance, EV charging installations can look pretty straightforward. Run a few cables, sort out the switchboard and load management, perhaps add some billing, and away you go.
Sounds easy. And unfortunately, that’s the problem.
For many electrical contractors, the complexity of EV charging installations doesn’t show up until commissioning. What’s worse, a job that looked profitable on paper can suddenly turn into a huge loss.
Extra site visits, technicians chasing communication faults, meter settings, IP addresses and charger configurations. It all adds up. Before you know it, you’re wondering why you agreed to the job in the first place.
That’s why we developed Easy Charge Pro.
Know your costs before the job starts
Extra time spent troubleshooting an EV charging system can quickly wipe thousands of dollars off the profit of an installation project.
Easy Charge Pro removes that uncertainty by giving contractors a defined price for the complex side of EV charging installs: the configuration and integration.
Rather than guessing how long programming, load management setup, metering integration and CPO commissioning will take, contractors know the cost before the job starts.
It’s all about protecting the electrician’s margins.
Smarter design can lower installation costs
The savings aren’t just in commissioning.
By looking at the complete system, including the chargers, switchboards, cabling, metering, communications and load management, we can identify opportunities to simplify the design and reduce infrastructure costs.
Rather than designing the installation around every charger operating at full power at the same time, available site capacity can be intelligently shared across the chargers.
This approach, known as Dynamic Load Management, can mean smaller switchboards, smaller submains, reduced cable sizes and, in some cases, avoiding expensive electrical upgrades altogether.
Sometimes the cheapest infrastructure is the infrastructure you don’t need to install.
Less metering. Less cost. Less complexity.
Unnecessary metering can also add significant cost to an EV charging installation.
Each additional meter means more cabling, more switchboard space, more communications and more labour.
By properly integrating the chargers, Schneider Load Management System and the site’s main electrical metering, we can simplify the metering architecture and reduce the amount of additional hardware required.
Fewer components mean a cheaper installation and fewer things to troubleshoot later.
You install it. We handle the complicated bits.
Easy Charge Pro is about giving electrical contractors the confidence to take on larger and more complex EV charging projects.
You get a defined specialist cost, reduced commissioning risk and an optimised design that can potentially reduce switchboard, cabling and metering costs.
Because winning the job is important. But making money out of it is even better.