Electric Vehicle Breakout
The electric vehicle breakout module provides customers with a more detailed look at how their electric vehicle charging impacts their energy as single bar-chart. The chart explains and visualizes how a customer's electric vehicle charging impacts their overall energy use, and encourages them to save energy.
Insight: The "Charging your EV at home used about 53 kW]" reminds customers that their electric vehicle changing impacts their overall energy use and prepares them for a more detailed view of their electric vehicle use.
Horizontal bar: The horizontal bar provides an isolated view of the customer's usage. The bar indicates three usage states: total usage, general home energy usage, and electric vehicle usage. The bar matches the data presented in the Electric Vehicle Neighbor Comparison.
Detection and Disaggregation Disclaimer - Third report and beyond (not depicted): From the third report onward, the module includes a short detection and dissagregation disclaimer that describes the data sources used to create the electric vehicle usage estimate. For example, "We combine your home profile with energy data from your smart meter to estimate your EV charging. These estimates will become even more accurate as the technology evolves." In the first two reports, this information appears as the Electric Vehicle Detection and Disaggregation module.
Requirements and Limitations
Fuel: Electric and dual fuel
AMI Data Required: Hourly AMI, and appliance detection and disaggregation.
Data History: Billing data for the previous billing period.
Billing Frequency: Monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly.