Southern California Edison Proposes $760 Million Charge Ready 2 Program to Expand Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
June 26 2018 - 07:10PM
Business Wire
Plan supports SCE’s clean energy vision of 7 million electric
cars on state highways by 2030
Two years ago, Southern California Edison launched Charge Ready,
a pilot program to increase the availability of charging for
passenger electric vehicles.
After having recently installed Charge Ready’s 1,000th EV
charging station, SCE today filed its plan with the California
Public Utilities Commission to expand the program to support the
installation of 48,000 more charging ports. The proposed $760
million program would continue over four years.
“Achieving California’s ambitious goals for reducing air
pollution and harmful greenhouse gas emissions will require 7
million electric cars on California highways by 2030,” said
Caroline Choi, SCE senior vice president for Regulatory Affairs.
“Taking Charge Ready to the next level will allow SCE to develop
charging infrastructure needed to support a big portion of those
cars.”
Charge Ready will increase the availability of EV charging
stations where people park their cars for extended periods of time,
like workplaces, campuses, recreational areas and multi-unit
dwellings.
SCE installs and maintains the supporting EV charging
infrastructure and provides rebates to reduce charging station
costs, while participants typically own, operate and maintain
qualified charging stations.
Demand for the pilot program has been high, with an expected
1,250 charging stations at more than 60 different locations at the
pilot’s conclusion this year.
“By allowing hundreds of our employees the opportunity to
conveniently plug-in daily at work, our headquarters has become the
blueprint for zero-emissions corporate commuting throughout the
nation,” said Mike O’Brien, vice president of planning for Hyundai
Motor America in Fountain Valley, where 74 Charge Ready chargers
were installed.
Lynwood, Charge Ready’s first site, installed eight charge ports
for public and employee use in the civic center parking lot and six
more to charge Lynwood’s new fleet of EVs used for city
operations.
Lynwood city officials say they are excited that Charge Ready
gives citizens more options to charge EVs, and that having an
electric fleet allows the city to be part of the solution to
cleaner air and lower greenhouse gas emissions in Southern
California.
Most of the charging stations added during Charge Ready’s pilot
phase have been installed in workplaces, schools and universities,
hospitals, destination centers and fleet yards. But in the second
phase, SCE wants to make a more concerted effort to increase the
number of chargers available in apartment and condominium complexes
as well.
Another goal is to install at least 30 percent of charging
stations in communities that are disproportionately affected by
pollution and economic hardship. More than half of all charging
stations added during the pilot phase were in such communities.
With the approval of the second phase of Charge Ready, SCE also
plans to launch a marketing and customer education campaign to
increase EV awareness.
Shawn Cun, energy manager of El Monte Union High School
District, where SCE has installed 44 charging stations, has already
seen the benefit of customer education by participating in Charge
Ready.
“On top of being able to provide our students, teachers and
staff the opportunity to charge their EVs, having the charging
stations also exposes EVs to more individuals in our community,
including many who might not have had that exposure before,” Cun
said.
SCE is also launching a number of other approved Charge
Ready-branded pilots and programs that support medium- and
heavy-duty trucks, transit buses, port equipment and other
industrial vehicles, as well as public and home-based charging for
cars.
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