Featured in High time for a masterplan – 06-2023

It’s time to get Sirius

In a bid to avoid costly grid augmentation, Spanish electric vehicle (EV) charger supplier Wallbox has designed a multi-layered energy intelligence solution, proving that necessity is the mother of invention. Marija Maisch takes a closer look.

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Marija Maisch

09 Jun 2023

The Wallbox HQ was able to spend 83.5% of one day entirely in off-grid consumption mode. | Photo: Wallbox

It was, almost, a perfect match. The eight-story building in central Barcelona was exactly what Wallbox wanted. By February 2020, the company headquarters, 30 km away, was getting crowded. “We managed to find a building which checked all the boxes except one – power availability,” says Daniel Utges, Wallbox’s head of energy.The building only had …

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