Ensuring uptime is of the utmost importance to utilities. When unavoidable outages strike, the ability to bring assets back online quickly is critical. Relying solely on emergency truck rolls to troubleshoot and conduct maintenance onsite for offline EV chargers isn’t timely enough and adds additional costs to maintenance budgets. The ability to remotely monitor, troubleshoot, and control critical assets, like EV charger infrastructure, allows utilities to both implement preventative maintenance planning as well as enhance the resiliency of their systems.
How Can NexPhase™ Help Utilities?
Unlike any switchgear of its kind, the NexPhase™ Smart EV Switchgear features cutting-edge grid intelligence for switchgear and EV charger remote monitoring, troubleshooting, and control. Armed with a high degree of EV charger infrastructure insight from NexPhase™, utilities can deploy maintenance with intelligence and only as needed – limiting truck roles, speeding reaction time, and lowering overall maintenance costs. Consider these benefits NexPhase™ can provide utilities:
CONNECTED
An embedded monitoring system provides remote access to real-time health data with remote power cycling capabilities and automated alarms to facilitate condition-based maintenance planning.
RESILIENCY
With early detection of EV charger deficiencies and system performance diagnostics provided by NexPhase™, utilities are provided with the tools to improve uptime, extend equipment service life, and enhance the reliability of their EV charger systems.
OUTAGE MITIGATION
It’s approximated that up to 25% of public U.S. EV chargers are out of operation at any given time, with these outages going undetected until a technician is physically present. NexPhase™ provides ongoing state-of-charge and switchgear performance data so utilities can identify outages, remotely cycle power, and react with precision.
ARE YOUR PROJECTS NEVI-READY?
The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Funding program provides funding to aid in the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. As part of the program, $5 billion in capital will be distributed over the next five years. Download this quick guide to make sure your next EV project qualifies.
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