SCE Gets Green Light for Expanded EV Charging Program
28 August 2020 - 9:51AM
Business Wire
The program to install about 38,000 electric car chargers over
the next five years will help California achieve its EV and climate
goals.
State officials gave Southern California Edison the green light
today for an expansive electric car charging infrastructure program
that will add about 38,000 new chargers throughout the utility’s
50,000-square-mile service area.
The program, known as Charge Ready 2, will be the nation’s
largest light-duty electric vehicle charging program run by an
investor-owned utility.
“This action by the California Public Utilities Commission is
critical to supporting California’s transition from fossil fuel
toward electrification,” said Katie Sloan, SCE director of
eMobility and Building Electrification. “Also, investment in EV
charging infrastructure can be a catalyst to help with economic
recovery from COVID-19, while also supporting vital air quality and
climate benefits to all communities.”
The program is an expansion of SCE’s Charge Ready pilot, which
was launched three years ago. During the pilot phase, the utility
has partnered with businesses, local governments and other
organizations to add more than 1,800 EV chargers at more than 100
sites. The $436-million Charge Ready 2 program will continue to
focus on providing charging infrastructure at workplaces, public
parking lots, schools, hospitals and destination centers.
“By making more charging stations available, we are helping to
advance a key component of California’s ambitious climate and
transportation electrification goals,” said Jered Lindsay, SCE
principal manager of Air and Climate Policy. “SCE’s analysis of the
steps that the state must take over the next 25 years to meet those
goals calls for 76% — or 26 million — cars on California highways
to be electric.”
Through Charge Ready, 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.
“Going forward, we will have an added emphasis on the unique
challenges faced by apartment and condo complexes, where one-third
of SCE customers live and have limited access to at-home charging
options,” Sloan said. For this reason, the expanded program has
added rebates to support the installation of EV charging ports in
new multifamily dwellings that are under construction.
Charge Ready 2 also sets a target to locate 50% of the chargers
in state-designated disadvantaged communities, or economically
impacted communities that suffer most from the effects of air
pollution.
In addition to Charge Ready 2 for passenger EVs, SCE launched a
program last year for trucks, buses and off-road industrial
equipment. The largest program of its kind in the U.S., Charge
Ready Transport aims to add charging to support at least 8,490
medium- and heavy-duty EVs over a five-year period. The $356
million program is also modeled after the Charge Ready pilot.
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