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Step 3
— Electricity Rate Setup
Entering your electric company’s billing rates for energy use into your Blink charging system helps you
coordinate your vehicle charging times with the least expensive billing rates. It also enables your Blink
to estimate the cost of each charging session and provide additional information based on that figure.
Most utilities provide two types of rate plan:
Single-rate plan:
Energy costs are the same at all times and are billed at one flat rate
Multiple-rate plan:
Energy costs vary by time of day, weekday/weekend, and/or season
Electricity is billed by the kilowatt-hour (kWh); you will enter the cost for one kWh for each rate you
enter in your Blink charging system.
tip
Before you start this step, we recommend that you get the most recent copy of your electric
bill, which should list each billing rate available to you at your residence. Contact your electric company
for more information.
Touch:
Single Rate Plan
if
your utility bill shows
one flat billing rate
per kWh used. Go to
section
A
,
Set up a
single-rate plan
.
Multiple Rate Plan
if
your utility bill shows
two or more billing
rates per kWh,
depending on the
Time of Use. Go to
section
B
,
Set up a
multiple-rate plan
.
