Electric Vehicle Charging and a Resilient Power Grid

In less than a decade, electric vehicles have gone from a novelty to a transportation staple now offered by every major manufacturer and several new ones. The exponential growth in this market coupled with efforts on a state level to drive electric vehicles presents an opportunity to build charging stations across the entire country. The advantages of the Renuvi system and its long service life with very low maintenance make it ideal for providing a charging network for electric vehicles.

According to the American Petroleum Institute, there are more than 150,000 active fueling stations, and nearly twice as many defunct former fuel stations listed as brownfield cleanup sites by the EPA. These brownfield stations often sit unused in major transit corridors due to the cost of removing and replacing out of compliance storage tanks and the required cleanup. Renuvi would like to change that.

 Without the need for immense grid upgrades traditionally required to deploy very high voltage Superchargers, the Renuvi system can convert existing brownfield sites into EV charging stations. By utilizing existing infrastructure we create a charging station with the immense power needs to charge electric vehicles in a similar timeframe and manner that traditional vehicles are refilled today and clean up toxic sites at the same time.

These sites would also serve as a distributed network of Inline Power Plants which fulfill Renuvi’s mission of increasing the reliability of the power grid. This reduces overall costs to both consumers and operators and creates a business model where the station operator can purchase power during low cost periods and even resell excess power into the market during peak hours.