By using XENON as a local energy management system, Fastned is able to avoid grid overloads, reduce both upfront and ongoing costs and serve even more electric drivers.
Fastned is a European operator of fast charging stations founded in 2012 and based in Amsterdam. The company's goal is to accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility by building a pan-European network of 1,000 public fast charging stations at prime locations where electric cars are charged exclusively with green electricity – in cities, along highways or at readily visited locations like supermarkets.
The company's fast charging stations enable charging of up to 350 kW and can provide an electric car with up to 300km of range in just 15 minutes, depending on the car type. However, high performance charging also translates to sharper energy demand, which calls for more intelligent energy management systems to keep costs low and energy supply more stable.
Fastned chose our XENON energy platform as the manufacturer-independent building kit to cost-effectively build a custom energy and load management solution. This solution optimizes utilization of the grid connection point and reduces costs. The Grid Protector module allows significantly larger charging stations to be built without needing to increase the size of the grid connection.
PV systems can also be integrated to harness local solar power and, with the help of the Peak Shaver module, ensure that energy usage is used and distributed for EV charging in the most effectual and cost-effective manner. By choosing different charging modes, the usage of all assets can be optimized and convenience for users simultaneously increased.
As demand for integrated home energy solutions grew, heimWatt GmbH, a German residential energy company specializing in solar, heat pump and energy solutions, recognized that homeowners were looking for more than standalone photovoltaic systems. Increasingly, customers expected connected solutions that combine PV, battery storage, heat pumps and electric vehicle (EV) chargers while automatically optimizing energy consumption and costs – requiring an intelligent home energy management platform such as the one provided by gridX.
To meet these expectations, heimWatt partnered with gridX to bring intelligent home energy management to its residential energy offering. Together, they launched smartY, heimWatt's branded home energy management solution, enabling homeowners to connect, monitor and optimize their energy assets from one platform. Today, smartY has become an integral part of the heimWatt residential energy system, providing customers with a connected, optimized and future-ready energy solution.
As charging demand continues to grow, many electric vehicle (EV) charging sites quickly reach grid capacity limits, making expansion complex and costly. E.ON Drive required a flexible energy management platform that allows charging infrastructure to scale across diverse sites while keeping both upfront investment costs and ongoing operational costs, such as grid fees, low.
At one site, dynamic load management with XENON enabled E.ON Drive to expand the charging capacity by a factor of eight without any grid extension. The platform automatically allocates power to vehicles, ensuring full utilization of available grid capacity without requiring additional infrastructure investment.
