Earth Techling: Electric vehicles at WMU run pure green

The 15 charging stations for electric vehicles on Western Michigan University’s campus recently caught the eye of the magazine Earth Techling.

The story says this is nifty: Whereas Web-based power displays are common for solar installations, we’ve never seen a Web-based EV charging station consumption display – until now. Check it out. You can see that in May, the array produced 5,246 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, of which 1,139 kWh went directly to power vehicles. For the year, as of yesterday afternoon the array had produced 22.4 megawatt-hours (MWh) of power, with just under quarter of that electricity – 5.25 MWh – used by the EV chargers. Don’t worry about the power that doesn’t feed the chargers; the system is grid-tied, so it doesn’t go to waste.

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Source: Earth Techling