The observation: three colliding challenges
Electric mobility is an essential lever for decarbonizing transport, which is responsible for more than 30% of CO₂ emissions. However, its development is hindered by a glaring lack of charging infrastructure, particularly at home and at the workplace — a deployment that requires close collaboration with the real estate sector.
This sector is itself facing its own transition: climate-neutral heating, energy renovations, solar self-consumption, and climate compliance. These are all constraints that call for simple and quick-to-deploy solutions.
Added to this is a third challenge, that of electrical grids: unable to absorb all the locally produced solar energy, they hold back owners of photovoltaic installations and cause solar feed-in tariffs to drop, reinforcing the need for decentralized storage solutions.
Three interconnected issues that call for systemic innovation.
Our objective
Building as a Grid: Charging 2.0 aims to evaluate, under real conditions, the combined integration of local solar production, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging across four types of buildings: residential, office, industrial, and logistics.
Each pilot site will allow for the study of charging behaviors and constraints specific to its environment. The ambition is to draw technical and economic models from these lessons that can be deployed on a large scale, taking into account grid, digital, legal, and commercial challenges.
A project supported by a wide network of partners
This project brings together complementary players from the real estate and energy sectors:
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AMP IT — project manager, developer, owner, and operator of charging infrastructures, publisher of the AMP IT Hub management and billing software
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EATON — energy storage solutions, charging equipment, and energy management
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PROCIMMO — real estate partner, owner of pilot sites
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CABLEX — electrical installer, specialist in large-scale deployment
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PRIMEO ENERGIE — distribution grid operator, specialist in self-consumption groupings and storage
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HEPIA — university partner, data analysis, and artificial intelligence algorithms
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CLEMAP — dynamic charging management, data collection, and processing
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Swiss Green Solar SA (PMV Groupe) — specialist in photovoltaic installations
The four stages of the project
1. Equipment of pilot sites — installation of charging stations and storage systems on the 4 sites, which are already equipped with solar panels.
2. Data collection and analysis — gathering data on charging, solar production, consumption, and storage usage at each site.
3. Deployment of artificial intelligence — implementation of AI and machine learning algorithms to optimize charging schedules based on the availability of renewable energy, reducing costs for users.
4. Report and recommendations — synthesis of the technical, digital, legal, and commercial challenges encountered, with recommendations for large-scale deployment.
What's next?
With more than 400 buildings analyzed and 35 buildings pre-equipped in Switzerland since 2021, AMP IT is putting its expertise to work for this new stage: demonstrating that buildings, grids, and electric mobility can function as an integrated energy system.
We will closely follow the progress of this project and regularly share our results. And for now, you can watch a small preview of our launch event with all the partners:
Stay tuned!