Smart Charging Considerations
What rules should you use?
Julian Ares
Last Update 6 months ago
It all depends on your goals. Our smart charging rules provide significant power and flexibility, so it's important to understand your objectives to create effective solutions.
Here are some considerations for smart charging rules that we believe may be helpful for your operation:
| Problem/Use Case | Rule Type |
| Put a ceiling on power usage all the time or only at certain times to reduce demand charges from utility. | Power Limit |
| Oversubscribed - chargers have more power than my panel or utility circuit. | Power Limit |
| Throttle down kW during peak times. | Lifecycle |
| Have different periods of throttles charging over night to stretch sessions out and save on costs. Auto-recovery for faulted charging sessions. | Lifecycle |
| Start sessions at specific times to avoid peak times. | Lifecycle |
| End sessions at specific times to avoid peak times. | Lifecycle |
| Automatically restart prematurely ended charging sessions. | Lifecycle |
| Create a schedule for charging sessions. | Lifecycle |
| Turn the charger off at specified times. | Inoperative |