Apartments, condos, HOAs
Multi-Family and HOA EV Charging in Sunnyvale
Load-shared and individually metered charging for the condo, apartment and townhome communities across Sunnyvale and Santa Clara County.
Shared garages and stalls
Charging Where One Panel Has to Serve Many Cars
Sunnyvale has an enormous amount of attached housing, and almost none of it was wired with electric vehicles in mind. Multi-family and HOA EV charging in Sunnyvale is the service for buildings where the electrical answer is never one charger on one wall. The constraint is nearly always the same: a house panel with finite capacity, a garage or carport with many stalls, and a governing body that needs to see numbers before it can approve anything. Sunnyvale EV Charger Installation starts with a load study, designs around load sharing or submetering so the existing service can serve more stalls than it looks like it can, and produces the drawings and cost breakdown a board or property manager can actually vote on. California law also gives residents meaningful rights to install charging in these settings, and a clean, documented plan is how those requests stop turning into disputes.
Measured load study, not a nameplate guess
Load sharing so one circuit serves several stalls
Submetering so residents pay for what they use
Board-ready drawings and an itemized cost breakdown
What a Multi-Family Charging Project Includes
What a multi-family charging project involves, on the electrical side and the paperwork side.
Building load studyWe measure actual demand on the existing service rather than relying on the nameplate, which usually reveals more available capacity than anyone expected.
Load-sharing design across stallsStations that negotiate available current among themselves let one circuit serve several cars overnight, which is how a modest service supports a real number of stalls.
Submetering and cost allocationEach stall's usage is measured and billed back to the resident, so the association is not absorbing the electricity or arguing about it.
Individual meter connections where preferredIn some buildings the cleaner answer is running each stall from that unit's own meter, and we lay out that option alongside the shared design.
Conduit infrastructure for future stallsWe install pathway capacity beyond the initial station count so the next resident request is a pull, not a construction project.
Board-ready drawings and cost breakdownSingle-line diagrams, stall layout, the load study and an itemized cost, formatted so a board can review it without an engineer translating.
Property manager and resident coordinationGarage access, parking displacement and work windows planned around residents, with notice handled in advance.
Fire and access clearancesEquipment placed to keep egress paths, fire access and clearance requirements intact, which is where a lot of garage installs run into trouble.
Bollards and stall protectionPhysical protection in shared garages where parking is tight and columns are already scarred.
City of Sunnyvale permits and inspectionsFiled and attended by us, with the load study submitted as part of the record.
How it works
Load Study, Approval Package, Phased Install
Step one
Load study and options
We assess the service, measure real demand, and come back with two or three workable designs at different price points rather than a single take-it-or-leave-it number.
Step two
Board or owner approval package
You get drawings, the load study, the itemized cost and a plain-language summary. We will attend the board meeting and answer the electrical questions directly if that helps it move.
Step three
Phased installation
Work is sequenced to minimize stall closures, usually a section at a time. Stations are commissioned, metering is verified against test loads, and the city inspects before residents start using them.
Why Choose Us for Multi-Family Charging
The load study is the whole ballgame
Buildings are routinely told they have no capacity when a real demand measurement says otherwise. Doing that measurement properly is often the difference between a viable project and a board declining one.
We produce documents a board can act on
Most proposals arrive as a price and nothing else, and then stall for months. Drawings, a load study and an itemized breakdown turn a vague idea into an agenda item with a vote attached.
Metering that ends the cost argument
Submetering means the association is not subsidizing anyone and residents pay for exactly what they use. That single decision removes most of the political friction from these projects.
Bring a Real Charging Plan to Your Sunnyvale Board
Whether you are a property manager, a board member or a resident who has been told it cannot be done, start with the load study. It usually answers the question in your favor and it gives you something concrete to put in front of the group.
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