An electric depot can charge its whole fleet or stay under its peak, rarely both at once.
Logistics parks add rooftop solar, battery storage and depot charging to a grid connection sized years ago. Plug in the whole fleet at once and the peak charge follows.
Three new loads on an old connection
A distribution park was wired for forklifts, lighting and conveyors. Now it has rooftop solar overhead, a battery in the yard, and a row of chargers for an electrifying truck and van fleet, all hanging off a grid connection sized for a much simpler site. If every vehicle plugs in at shift change, the depot draws its highest power of the day in one block, sets a demand charge that lands every month, and may breach the connection limit entirely. Meanwhile the solar overhead and the battery in the yard are doing little to help, because nothing is coordinating the three.
A layer that schedules the whole yard
An energy resource planning layer turns three separate assets into one managed system. It charges vehicles from solar and cheap night hours, leans on the battery to cover the charging peak, and spreads the load so the fleet is ready by morning without ever spiking the meter. The same layer keeps the rest of the park supplied if the grid drops.
Why 247 ERP fits a depot
247 ERP runs cost-first, with a no-code rules engine of up to 20 conditions across 10 programs that lets the depot set its own charging logic without a software team. It is price aware and trade ready, tracking live wholesale prices so the battery buys low and sells high, and it scales from one yard to a national network of depots from a single application.
Whitepaper
Charging the Fleet Without Waiting for the Grid
How on-site storage and power let depots charge electric fleets when the grid connection is too small, too slow, or not there at all.
James Troch, CEO — 247 Energy · March 2026 · 10 pages