Energy monitoring and targeting (M&T) is an energy efficiency technique based on the standard management axiom stating that “you cannot manage what you cannot measure”.

An electric vehicle charging station, also called EV charging station, electric recharging point, charging point, charge point,

electronic charging station (ECS), and electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is an element in an infrastructure that supplies

electric energy for the recharging of plug-in electric vehicles—including electric cars, neighborhood electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.