PHEV Integration

GridPoint SmartGrid Platform offers the missing link to the mainstream adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and provides a modular architecture that can incorporate all PHEV standards presently in development

GridPoint Energy Manager in conjunction with PHEVs enables utilities to offer PHEV customers value-based differentiated pricing, billing lower rates for utility-controlled off-peak charging and higher rates during peak hours. Utilities can optimize a new revenue stream, while offering customers significantly reduced charging costs and limiting peak load growth.

Additionally, utilities gain complete control over when and how fast PHEVs are charged, allowing utilities to optimize generating assets.

Through the GridPoint Customer Portal, customers gain easy-to-understand pricing and environmental data based on their PHEV usage (e.g. driving your PHEV today versus a traditional vehicle reduced your carbon dioxide emissions by 27 percent). When PHEV communication standards are established, additional information such as mileage and gasoline consumption will be provided through the portal.