The offering is expected to integrate Athena, Stem’s clean energy platform, on-site energy storage, and ChargePoint’s Express Platform to help drive cost savings and maximise value now and over the lifetime of the assets.
The joint offering, plus support from Stem energy experts, will help asset owners navigate federal and state processes for securing funding incentives offered through the US$5bn US National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program for added EV charging asset value that could offset up to 80% of project costs, where available.
Stem’s Athena platform, the foundation for its fully integrated, interoperable eMobility solution, learns from EV charging behaviours in addition to optimising and controlling batteries, solar photovoltaics (PV), and microgrids.
The companies intend to integrate Athena’s core optimisation services, such as optimising demand charges and time of use rates, with ChargePoint’s Express Plus management software to reduce costs, increase resiliency, and minimise greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
ChargePoint’s Express Plus is designed specifically for fuelling and convenience, retail and highway corridor charging locations. The system can deliver up to 500 kilowatts (kW) per port, depending on the configuration, and is designed to easily scale to meet future demand as EV adoption and vehicle capability grows.
Additionally, ChargePoint’s charge management software provides control and insights into charging behaviour and system status. Together, the cloud-based integration will allow for data sharing for higher uptime, lower costs, and an improved user experience. The joint solution will be designed to empower customers to continue EV charging during outages driving resilience into electrification strategies; mitigate constrained grid conditions; accelerate charging deployments by using solar + storage; maximise programme revenues and utility bill savings by using power from mixed resources. In addition, the system will reduce GHG emissions from fleet charging using stored solar energy on-site, and cleaner energy from the grid.
“An integrated ChargePoint and Stem solution broadens the number of sites that can support high-speed charging economically at scale,” said Pasquale Romano, CEO, ChargePoint.
