EV charging is arriving on commercial and multifamily properties across California faster than most operators expected. When that charging load lands on your building's main meter, it stacks onto your peak and inflates your demand charges every single month. Submetered billing solves this by isolating EV charging onto a dedicated EV utility rate. At one corporate property, moving the EV load onto a dedicated EV rate cut the combined site and charging bill by more than 20 perc

Most load management systems for EV charging work like this: read the site meter, throttle the chargers, repeat. That works fine — until it doesn’t. The real constraint at most commercial and industrial sites isn’t total connected load. It’s priority. Your electric trucks need to be charged before their delivery routes start — but how many of your other loads are actually flexible? A pump filling a tank, a compressor cycle, a process that could run at 2 AM just as easily as 2