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ICO Terminals in Zeebrugge, Europe's largest car import terminal, must charge a growing share of the electric vehicles it handles to an agreed level before they can be delivered. By 2019 it had over 300 slow chargers but no control: vehicles were over- or under-charged, surplus power could not be billed back to the car brands, there was no DC charging and no central view of the site's transformers, wind turbines and buildings. Smappee Infinity now measures and protects seven low-voltage boards and their transformers, with dynamic load balancing across the charging clusters and the site's eleven wind turbines included. Clusters of EV Base charge points and 200 kW EV Ultra fast chargers run on one platform, and an API link with ICO's system means each vehicle receives exactly the kilowatt-hours requested. Staff also get EV Wall chargers at home, with split billing.

DPD Ireland, the country's largest courier company with 36 depots, is moving its delivery vans from diesel to electric. Drivers would only buy in if every van was charged and ready each morning. From January 2022, installer EV Charging Ireland fitted Smappee EV Base and EV Wall chargers; fifteen months later, 200 Smappee chargers were in place, plus 20 home charging units. Each depot monitors its chargers in the Smappee dashboard, is notified when a session fails and keeps track of spending, and drivers who charge at home are reimbursed accurately each month using RFID cards. Within two years, 30% of the fleet was electric, with 300 electric vehicles on the road.

Through its WWF Upfront programme, launched in 2016, WWF makes its own offices more energy efficient and powers them with renewable energy, one office at a time. It needed monitoring that works in very different climates and that staff who are not energy experts can use. Each office installs a Smappee energy monitor, staff follow real-time consumption in the app during an Energy Efficiency Week, and the data is then used to size solar installations accurately. In Hanoi, the office found that air conditioning used 30% of its energy (50% in summer) and saved 28% over the week by changing air-conditioning habits and switching off appliances such as water dispensers at night; the Hue office cut its use by 50%.

Rivas Zorggroep is a non-profit healthcare group in the South Holland region of the Netherlands, with nineteen locations including the Beatrixziekenhuis regional hospital in Gorinchem. Dutch energy-saving rules required it to look closely at where it could reduce consumption, and cutting CO₂ emissions is its main priority. Smappee Infinity now gives it detailed energy data with Cascade Overload Protection and one dashboard covering all locations and departments. After discovering that Smappee also makes chargers, the group installed two charging stations for hospital staff and plans to add more.

• One dashboard for all 19 locations and departments
• Overload protection on the electrical installation
• Two EV charging stations for hospital staff, with more planned