Charging Site Load and Energy Management
Vector’s vCharM manages load and energy for workplace and commercial charging sites. For corporate and industrial facilities, vCharM supports building load integration, employee access management and cost allocation reporting. For customer-facing commercial sites such as public and destination charging locations, it supports demand management, throughput optimization, user access control and CPO back-office integration.
What Kind of Site Are You Managing?
Workplace and Facility Charging
For private corporate sites, office campuses and industrial facilities. Manage employee access, internal cost allocation and building load integration. Charging supports daily operations and employee benefits.
Commercial Charging Sites
For public, destination and customer-facing charging sites. Manage high utilization, payment and CPO back-office integration. Uptime, availability and site economics are the non-negotiable requirements.
Workplace and Facility Charging
Workplace charging competes with building loads for available grid capacity. The primary challenges are staying within the building power budget, managing access fairly across users and providing data for cost allocation and sustainability reporting.
Building Load Integration
Load management monitors total site consumption and adjusts charging point allocations in real time. Charging automatically reduces during building peak periods and increases when more capacity is available.
Access and Authorization
Charging management handles authorization, enforces site policies such as session time limits or company vehicle priority, and flags sessions that run unusually long or leave charging points occupied without active charging.
Cost Allocation
Per-session consumption records can be exported to fleet management and expense systems for department billing or employee reimbursement.
Solar and Storage
Energy management shifts charging load toward photovoltaic generation peaks. Where battery storage is available, it coordinates discharge to extend renewable coverage beyond generation hours.
Sustainability Reporting
Consumption and renewable allocation data supports carbon accounting and tracking the progress of company vehicle fleet electrification over time.
Site Resilience
vCharM.edge executes load management locally. Charging continues within power limits even when connectivity to central systems is unavailable, particularly relevant for manufacturing and industrial environments.
Commercial Charging Sites
Commercial charging sites serve external users and must perform economically. The key requirements are high availability, efficient charger utilization, controlled demand peaks and reliable integration with CPO back-office systems.
Throughput Optimization
Load management redirects capacity from sessions with high state of charge to vehicles with a lower one, increasing overall efficiency without requiring a larger grid connection.
Demand Peak Avoidance
Peak demand fees can dominate a commercial site’s electricity costs. Load management coordinates charger power allocations to prevent the simultaneous peaks that trigger them.
CPO Integration
Charging management integrates with billing platforms via OCPI and communicates with individual stations via OCPP, fitting into the broader network operational context without custom integration work per deployment.
Energy Cost Management
Vehicles parked for longer sessions offer opportunities to defer load without reducing service quality. Energy management uses price signals and renewable availability to schedule flexible load.
Local Resilience
vCharM.edge executes load management locally. If connectivity to central systems is lost, the site continues operating within power limits and serving drivers without interruption. Resynchronizes automatically when connectivity is restored.
Payment and User Access
Charging management controls who can start a session and supports access workflows for public, guest or customer-facing users. It connects authorization and session data with external payment, billing or operator systems, enabling controlled access without turning charging management into a standalone payment platform.
Products for Charging Site Management
vCharM
Central management platform for charging, load and energy across site operations. For workplace sites: access management, cost allocation reporting and sustainability data. For commercial sites: CPO back-office integration via OCPI and OCPP, demand peak avoidance and energy cost optimization. Works with vCharM.edge for local site resilience.
CHARGING MANAGEMENT • LOAD MANAGEMENT • ENERGY MANAGEMENT
vCharM.edge
Local execution layer for load and energy management at the site level. Maintains power limit compliance and charging continuity when connectivity to vCharM is unavailable. Configured and updated remotely. Resynchronizes with vCharM automatically when connectivity is restored. Essential for sites where load management cannot depend on persistent backend connectivity.
LOAD MANAGEMENT • ENERGY MANAGEMENT
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