Every space now wants to be a charger. Your grid connection wants none of it.
Car park operators are wiring spaces for EV charging across whole portfolios, but each site sits on a small urban grid connection that buckles when cars charge together.
A connection built for lights, not charging
A multi-storey car park was wired to run lights, lifts and a barrier. Now every operator is being asked to turn its spaces into charging points by drivers, by tenants, by city mandates. The trouble is the grid connection: it was sized for a building that consumed almost nothing, and reinforcing it in a dense city centre is slow, disruptive and expensive. Add fast chargers on top and a handful of cars charging at once can exceed the whole site’s capacity, triggering punishing demand charges or simply tripping the limit.
Charge the building, not just the cars
On-site storage lets a car park add charging without rebuilding its connection. The battery charges slowly off the modest existing supply through the quiet hours, then delivers the bursts when several cars plug in at once. The site’s peak draw stays inside its connection limit, the demand charges stay flat, and the operator can roll out far more charging points than the raw grid connection would ever allow across many sites, on the same playbook.
Why 247 Energy
A car park is an occupied, enclosed structure, so fire safety is not negotiable. 247 Energy’s supercapacitor storage is non-flammable with no thermal runaway suited to sitting inside a structure full of vehicles and people and its fast charge-discharge matches the bursty rhythm of arrival-time charging. Compact, European-built, with in-house software to manage charging and storage as one system across a portfolio.