EV Charging & Electrical Services in Central Texas
Charging equipment, the electrical work that has to happen behind it, and backup power for the next time the grid gives out. Every job opens with a load calculation and a look at the cable route.
Call (737) 330-0611The panel decides which of these you need.
A charger install and a service upgrade look like the same job from the driveway and are not. A whole-home load calculation totals your fixed loads against the service rating and returns one of three answers: capacity available, capacity available with load management, or a genuine need to grow the service.
Those are three different projects at three different prices, which is why we run it before quoting rather than revising on the day.
Charging
Level 2 EV Charger Installation
A 240-volt circuit and a mounted charger, so the car fills overnight instead of over most of a week. The work that decides the price happens before the drill comes out.
If Austin Energy supplies you, the rebate pays half of this back — but only against a permitted install by a licensed electrician. That is worth more than any discount an unlicensed installer can offer.
Read moreHardwired EV Charger Installation
The charger wired directly to the circuit. Higher amperage, one less connection to fail, and the option that suits an outdoor position in this climate.
If the charger is going outside, or the car is a full-size truck that will draw the maximum for hours, hardwiring is the version that lasts.
Read moreTesla Wall Connector Installation
Wall Connector installation, including the load-sharing setups that let two cars share one circuit — common here, where a second EV in the driveway is unremarkable.
Two cars do not automatically mean two circuits. Power sharing often fits a second connector onto a service that could not otherwise take one, and it is cheaper than growing the panel.
Read moreNEMA 14-50 Outlet Installation
A 240-volt receptacle for a plug-in charger. Cheaper up front than hardwiring, with a trade-off worth understanding before you choose it.
A receptacle lets you take the charger with you, which matters if you are renting or expect to move. A hardwired unit is the better long-term install. We will tell you which fits your situation rather than which is quicker to fit.
Read moreElectrical
Backup Power
Home Battery Backup Installation
Storage that carries the house through an outage. February 2021 made this a mainstream request in Central Texas rather than a niche one.
Backing up the whole house is the expensive way to do this. Backing up the circuits that actually matter — fridge, a few outlets, one HVAC zone — costs a fraction and covers the scenario people are really worried about.
Read moreStandby Generator Installation
A permanently installed generator with automatic transfer. The option that does not care how long the outage lasts.
Batteries are quieter and need no fuel. Generators do not run out after a day. On acreage west of the city, where restoration takes longest, that difference is usually the deciding one.
Read moreBidirectional Charging & Vehicle-to-Home
Using the car's pack to carry the house. A large truck battery holds considerably more than a typical home storage unit, and it is already in the driveway.
This is genuinely promising and genuinely immature. We will tell you plainly whether your vehicle and your utility support it today, rather than selling you a system that waits for a firmware update.
Read moreCommercial
Commercial EV Charger Installation
Workplace, retail and multi-family charging — from a couple of ports to a staged build-out with the conduit laid for what comes next.
The expensive mistake is trenching for today's port count. Laying conduit for the full build-out costs comparatively little while the lot is already open.
Read moreDC Fast Charger Installation
High-power public and fleet charging. A different class of project — this one starts as an electrical service question, not a charger question.
The first question is not which charger. It is whether the site's service can carry it, and what the utility would require to get it there. We start there, because that answer decides whether the rest is worth costing.
Read moreService
EV Charger Repair & Maintenance
Diagnosis when a charger stops, faults intermittently, or throttles. Frequently the circuit rather than the unit — and in this climate, frequently heat.
A charger that worked for two summers and now trips is rarely a dead charger. It is usually a termination that has been through enough heat cycles to loosen.
Read moreEV Charger Relocation
Moving an existing charger — a new house, a rebuilt garage, or a second car that has made the original position wrong.
Taking the charger with you when you move is usually worth doing, provided the unit is not so old that the replacement has caught up. We will tell you which case you are in.
Read more