A group of organizations operating in the Dutch EV charging industry have signed an agreement on better data exchange for smart charging of EVs.
The Ede Agreement is a collaboration agreement among Charge Point Operators (CPOs), e-mobility Service Providers (eMSPs) and Charge Point Management System (CPMS) providers to work together on smooth data exchange for smart charging.
The collaboration agreement was signed by: ANWB, Eneco, EQUANS, the EV Roaming Foundation, GreenFlux, Last Mile Solutions, MultiTankcard, Orange Charging, Park&Charge, Tap Electric, Total Energies, Travelcard and Vattenfall InCharge.
Under the Smart Charging for Everybody action program, companies all along the EV charging chain are working together to accelerate the rollout of smart charging in the Netherlands. The ambition of the NAL (National Agenda Charging Infrastructure) is that by the end of 2025, over 60% of charging sessions for electric cars and vans will be smart.
Smart charging allows the speed and time of charging to be adjusted to adapt to current energy prices, the availability of locally generated sustainable power, and capacity on the power grid. However, EV drivers often don’t know how smart charging is applied and what it means for their charging sessions. To clarify this, better data exchange between the various parties in the EV charging value chain is needed.
The collaboration aims to provide EV drivers with better insight into how much power is available at specific charging stations at different times of the day, and to enable drivers to indicate when their vehicles should charge at the highest possible speed in case they need to leave soon.
“The reason this is not yet happening on a large scale is that companies have been waiting for each other to implement this, therefore, the technical interfaces we need for this are still partly missing,” said Lennart Verheijen, Implementation Manager of the Smart Charging for Everyone program. “The signing of the collaboration agreement will cause a breakthrough, as it will remove an important barrier to the successful rollout of smart charging.”
“Smart charging is a major spearhead for GreenFlux, as we know that alleviating the pressure of EV charging on the power grid is much needed,” said Suthalan Gnanese, Managing Director of e-mobility platform provider GreenFlux. “Many of our customers can already benefit from smart charging with our smart algorithms, and we plan to roll that out even further. With the Ede collaboration agreement, we hope that smart charging will become the new normal for EV drivers.”
Source: GreenFlux
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