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    Nevada County Regulators Approve Edison XFC Fast Charging Pilot Station near Las Vegas Strip

    Nov. 12, 2024
    All of the power generation and endpoint charging resources will be coordinated by Edison XFC’s energy management system. Altogether, the company is creating a DC microgrid solution for EV charging.
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    Electric vehicle infrastructure developer Edison XFC Corp. is moving ahead with construction plans for an ultra-fast charging station pilot project in Las Vegas after receiving county building permits to proceed.

    The Building Department of Clark County approved Edison XFC’s plan to build a EV fast-charging station that will be powered by solar energy, battery storage and a direct current (DC) coupling. The company hopes to complete the pilot station by the first quarter of 2025.

    All of the power generation and endpoint charging resources will be coordinated by Edison XFC’s energy management system. Altogether, the company is creating a DC microgrid solution for EV charging.

    “This is a major milestone for the Company,” Amit Kumar, co-founder and chairman of Edison XFC, said in a statement.

    Once the project is operational, he added, “We welcome and encourage EV drivers, investors, the media and strategic partners to visit us with their EVs, if they are in the vicinity of the famous Las Vegas Strip to experience Edison’s fast-charging capability.”

    The Edison XFC chargers are reportedly designed to offer high-voltage, high current output to charge EVs from 10% to 80% in as short as a 10-minute span. Consumer worry over the range and time to charge for EVs is proving a commercial detriment to selling the vehicles.

    “I am excited about this critical step,” said Victor Lee, co-founder, president and CEO of Edison XFC. “All the hardware has already been delivered to the project site, and we are ready to break ground on the construction immediately. Our technology aims to charge an EV up to 80% capacity or 50 kWh, which is equivalent to a driving range of about 150 to 200 miles.”

    The Las Vegas project is a first for the startup, which gains some crowdfunding via the StartEngine portal. Kumar and Lee are longtime veterans in the energy, industrial and financial sectors.

    Kumar was formerly chairman and CEO of Anixa Biosciences and Geo Fossil Fuels, Inc. Lee led Ascent Solar Technologies, CNMC Goldmine Holdings and was a managing director at Deutsche Bank.

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

    For EnergyTech editorial inquiries, please contact Managing Editor Rod Walton at [email protected].

    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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