Utility-Dependent Charging
18–24 months of waiting. Then the bills start.
Traditional fast charging treats your property like a substation project. You wait on the utility, you fund the upgrades, and you inherit the operating costs — for an amenity that never earns its keep.
- 12–24 month utility interconnection queues before a single kWh flows
- Six-figure grid upgrades — transformers, switchgear, new service — often billed back to the property
- Trenched parking lots and blocked drive aisles during your tenants' business hours
- Monthly demand-charge penalties that bleed the site's margin for the life of the system
- A cost center, not an asset — value accrues to the utility, not the landlord