AVANGRID partners with EV Connect in pursuit of electric vehicle data analytics

A new partnership between AVANGRID, Inc. and EV Connect seeks advanced data analytics to guide AVANGRID’s investments and inform its electric vehicle programming, giving it greater ability to forecast EV electricity needs, their impacts on the grid, and supporting infrastructure needs.

Beyond this, AVANGRID will use EV Connect data to develop future models plotting out daily charging needs for commercial, industrial, and home charging segments and to better account for the electrification of its fleet. Rita King, the sustainable energy company’s senior director of Smart Grids Innovation and Planning, described the move as key to maintaining AVENGRID’s edge and meeting the demands of a decarbonized economy.

“This partnership with EV Connect not only supports our innovative sustainability goals, but it also puts us on the right path for EV infrastructure planning at a large scale using real-time data,” King said.

EV Connect is a software service company dedicated to managing and delivering networks of EV chargers through its clients, like AVANGRID. It allows site owners and utilities to deploy, manage, and grow affiliated networks. For AVANGRID itself, it hopes to create a platform for managing large-scale, networked EV charging.

“The real-world insights and aggregate view of data EV Connect is providing AVANGRID can be used to visualize customer segments usage and make informed decisions about deployment and future planning for grid impacts,” Ram Ambatipudi, vice president of Business Development at EV Connect, said. “We look forward to helping AVANGRID expand their EV charging programs with precision and plan for power demand expansion as EV charging scales up in their service areas.”