Battery knowledge · Charging infrastructure
Smart load panel
A home electrical panel whose circuits software can switch and meter individually. During an outage it lets a home battery or vehicle-to-home system keep essential circuits alive and shed large loads such as an EV charger or heat pump, so a smaller battery and inverter can carry the house for longer.
- Also called
- smart electrical panel, smart breaker panel, load management panel
Example
Charging infrastructure: an example situation
A 100 kW model request does not establish real voltage, current, connector or negotiation compatibility.
Read Smart load panel alongside Behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter in this context. Where a storage system sits relative to the customer’s electricity meter. Behind-the-meter batteries in homes, shops and factories serve the site first — solar self-consumption, backup, cutting demand charges; front-of-the-meter systems connect directly to the grid and earn from wholesale trading and grid services at utility scale.
Use in Lemonergy
Lemonergy Studio blocks
Supply an outage load
V2H illustrates outage-triggered dispatch and reserve.
Blocks to use
- Physical signal step
Asserts outage
Inputs & settings
- before / after
- atS
- Scheduled import / export and load policy
Requests signed power
Inputs & settings
- mode
- reserveSoc / targetSoc
- loadPower, outage → command
- Bidirectional grid / load interface
Converts battery and grid/load power
Inputs & settings
- importEfficiency / exportEfficiency
- importLimitW / exportLimitW
- Electrical ports p and n
- Battery with SOC-dependent OCV
Stores charge and supplies terminal voltage
Inputs & settings
- capacityAh
- initialSoc
- emptyVoltageV / fullVoltageV
- resistanceOhm
- Electrical ports p and n
This overview identifies the components to use. Follow the example in Lemonergy for their connections and settings.
- Set outage time, load and reserve.
- Compare reserve with departure target.
Example. An ideal 10 kWh usable budget supplies 3 kW for 3.33 h before losses and limits.
Observe. Reserve can hold while departure target is unmet.
No islanding switches, smart-panel circuits or protection coordination are simulated.
Open the Studio example →References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center
Topic background · U.S. charging equipment levels, charging infrastructure and connector context. Regional terminology varies.