Get rewarded up to $10 a month for charging your EV off-peak 85% of the time.
You’ll help to maintain grid reliability for Black Hills Energy customers across Colorado.
The program uses a free mobile app powered by ev.energy to connect with your EV or home charger. Create an account and enroll in the EVolved Charging Program today!
Your connected EV or home charger’s telematics tracks your charging in real time to determine when you are charging off-peak between 8pm and 5pm, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays.
Your charging is tracked and displayed on your personalized dashboard along with your rewards earned. You can view and download your charging data in the ev.energy app anytime.
Join hundreds of EV drivers in the EVolved Charging Program with Black Hills Energy.
If you need support with the ev.energy app, please refer to the FAQ or contact us by email at EVolvedCharging@ev.energy
This is a managed charging program that rewards participants for allowing their EV charging to be scheduled by Black Hills Energy, to take advantage of charging during the cheapest, greenest time. This program is open to the first 880 customers who enroll compatible hardware and are based in the following ZIP codes:
We will use your personal settings such as your electricity rate and ready-by time to start and stop the charge session remotely.
Users can earn $10/month if 85% of their at-home charging occurs off-peak.
Rules for $10/month incentive scheme:
- 85% of charging must occur outside of on-peak times. On-peak is 5-8pm (Mountain Time — note Colorado does daylight savings so Mountain Time accounts for the changes from Mountain Standard Time and Mountain Daylight Time throughout the year) Monday-Friday, excluding 6 major holidays (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day)
- Driver must have at least 1 at-home charging session in each calendar month that is greater than 1kWh in order to qualify for the $10/month incentive
Incentives are paid out monthly, on the last day of the calendar month following the month in which the incentive was earned, paid off-bill by ev.energy paid via Paypal or Venmo
The EVolved Charging Program incentives are paid via PayPal or Venmo on a monthly basis, and you will be notified by email when a new reward payment has been made to your preferred account.
To ensure you receive your program incentives, you will need to enter your preferred payment choice in the ev.energy app under the incentives tab. You will need to have a Venmo or PayPal account, which are free to sign up for, and only takes a minute to connect to the ev.energy app.
Off-peak is 8pm-5pm, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays. On-peak is 5-8pm, Monday-Friday, excluding 6 major holidays (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day).
Charging off-peak is important because that is when demand for electricity is the lowest. EV owners that charge off-peak are helping reduce the cost of electricity for everyone and reducing load demand on the electrical grid. This is increasingly important as EVs become more popular across Colorado.
Black Hills Energy and ev.energy have partnered to create the EVolved Charging Program.
ev.energy is a Certified B Corporation® with a mission to make EV charging greener, cheaper, and smarter for utilities and their customers. Its end-to-end software platform wirelessly connects to electric vehicles and chargers to intelligently manage EV charging while working with utilities to put cash back in customers’ wallets for charging at grid-friendly times. With a global base of utility, vehicle OEM, and EVSE partners, ev.energy manages more than 150,000 EVs on its platform each day. Learn more at https://www.ev.energy/.
Compatible home chargers:
Please note that to connect your vehicle to us, you’ll need an active connected services subscription. If you don’t see your EV or charger, please reach out to us! We’ll add you to the waitlist and be in touch if the integration becomes available.
Please click on ‘Get started’ and fill out the form, you’ll then be directed to enroll your compatible EV or charger via the ev.energy app.
If you would like to unenroll from the program at any time, please email us at EVolvedCharging@ev.energy
ev.energy does not see or store your EV and/or charger username and password. Once you enter your username and password, we instantly exchange them with the vehicle and/or charger manufacturer for a secure token that allows us to be able to continue to access your account to optimize your charging throughout the program. This token is stored securely and encrypted in ev.energy’s cloud platform, hosted by Amazon Web Services.
To calculate the session cost, we use a weighted average of the standard residential energy rate, or standard residential energy rate + Whole House EV (WHEV) rate rider. As our rates vary seasonally and are dependent on the amount of kWh used in your household, a weighted average was calculated. Once your charging session is recorded, we multiply the weighted average rate by the amount of kWh used. This may not be a perfect calculation in all circumstances, but will be close enough to provide a valid estimation of your EV charging cost.
Since we are managing your at home charging only, we are unable to determine your energy cost at a public charger. Any charges that take place away from home will still be recorded in the app for your convenience.
The app only takes your EV charging into account, whereas your bill reflects the total kWh usage for your entire home.
For this program, we are using a weighted average to calculate the cost per kWh. This average is based on both tiers within the standard rate, as well as taking the seasonal rate change into account.
