Linga Networks has created energy management partnerships with Everty and Nilsen to protect the energy grid and provide the “fastest charge possible” with its regional EV charging infrastructure.

The partnerships are predicted to increase all key energy consumption metrics are set to increase including number of vehicles, number of charging stations, battery size and additional regional tourism.

With a growing network, targeting over 1,000 regional charging points across the country and an anticipated rapid increase in EV ownership, the need to focus on energy management has become apparent.

“We felt it was critical to ensure that both the grid and surety of supply are protected. Forming a coalition of exceptionally capable suppliers to do that was the responsible thing to do,” Linga Network chief executive and founder Adrian Kinderis says.

“We’ve already seen a few deployments of high consumption fast-chargers with little consideration for the potential negative impact on the local grid. That’s not our approach, we aim to provide regional centres with maximum convenience and minimum impact.”

Nilsen focuses on local grid management and seeks to support local appliances and load management before the charging station.

Everty manages energy through the charging station utilising smart software that can look at stress to the grid and throttle back throughput at the ports. This ensures that the chargers operate at the highest charge load possible, whilst not creating grid stress at peak times.

Roll-out of the Linga Network has begun with the mixed model of local government authority and local business partners providing convenient locations for charge points and contributing towards the initial cost. Linga Network is managing the entire installation, maintenance and customer interface processes.