Priya Raghavan

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EV charging, home batteries and residential electrical capacity

13 years of experience

I am a licensed professional engineer in Texas. I spent eight years designing charging equipment for a manufacturer before going independent on residential integration in Austin: chargers, home batteries, load management. The subject I care most about is panel capacity, because that is where charger projects die. The existing service will not carry the load, and the owner finds out after the equipment is bought that they need a service upgrade costing more than the charger did. That calculation takes twenty minutes on a call with a photo of your panel and twelve months of utility bills. I also spend a lot of time explaining load management, which is the cheap way out of a service upgrade and which almost no installer proposes because it sells less hardware. I work to the National Electrical Code; for a project in Europe I can set the method but I cannot sign off on compliance.

Consultation languages

English
French
Tamil

Skills

EV supply equipment
NEC Article 220 load calculations
Home battery storage
Load management and demand control
Panel and subpanel design
Utility interconnection

What sets them apart

I run the load calculation before you buy anything. That is the reverse of how most people do it, and it is the only way to avoid the eight-thousand-dollar service upgrade nobody budgeted for.

Education

· MS Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin; Texas PE licence

Credentials

· Product engineer at an EV charging manufacturer, 2012 to 2020.
· Independent residential design practice in Austin since 2020.
· Licensed Professional Engineer, State of Texas, electrical discipline.

Moderate cancellation

Fully refunded up to 24 hours before, half up to 2 hours before, nothing after that.