Instance of Stage 2 EV charger put in on a utility pole
Undertaking Description
Seattle Metropolis Mild is launching a service that can set up public Stage 2 electrical car (EV) chargers at curbside places all through town of Seattle. Metropolis Mild is providing this service to supply near-home EV charging for residents who can’t entry off-street parking to cost their automobiles.
What’s Occurring Now?
We wish to hear your ideas on this proposed service! We are going to use the suggestions to assist form the design of this new service so it finest meets the wants of our prospects and the communities we serve. You may present your suggestions by filling out our on-line survey.
Go to our survey right here: Curbside Level 2 EV Charging Survey
What’s going to this service present?
This service will set up a public Stage 2 EV charging station (see proper photograph) subsequent to the curb in residential neighborhoods in Seattle. Seattle Metropolis Mild will set up, personal, function and keep the EV chargers. As a result of these chargers are public, anybody who drives an EV will be capable of park on the road subsequent to the charger and cost their car. The chargers will likely be out there on a first-come, first-served foundation and can’t be reserved.
The Stage 2 EV chargers put in below this program will present as much as 9.6 kilowatts (kW). The infrastructure can present a typical EV with over 30 miles of vary per hour of cost time. Stage 2 EV chargers are regularly used for a number of hours at a time, reminiscent of when a automotive is parked in a single day at house or whereas the motive force is at work.
How a lot will this service price?
Seattle Metropolis Mild can pay for all prices associated to the acquisition and set up of the chargers. There is no such thing as a price to the resident or property proprietor to request or set up a public curbside Stage 2 EV charger.
Drivers might want to pay a per kilowatt-hour (kWh) charge to make use of the chargers. The 2021 charge for Seattle Metropolis Mild-operated Stage 2 EV chargers is $0.20 per kWh (2022 charges will likely be launched at a later date). One kWh supplies a typical EV with sufficient vitality to journey over three miles. The charges are designed to pay for the electrical energy, operations, upkeep and restore prices whereas offsetting the preliminary buy and set up prices.
Why is that this service being provided?
Many Seattle residents should use road parking close to their houses. Older single-family houses, flats, condominiums, and houseboats regularly do not need off-street parking like a driveway, storage, or car parking zone. It’s often very troublesome or not attainable for residents to supply their very own EV charging when parking on the road.
The City of Seattle set a goal to reduce transportation emissions 83% from 2008 levels by 2030. Residents can accomplish a lot of this with low-emission journey by public transit, biking, strolling, and different choices; nevertheless, many will nonetheless depend on private automobiles for a few of their journeys. Seattle Metropolis Mild is putting in these chargers as a part of a extra in depth portfolio of transportation electrification investments and companies to assist the utility’s service space transition to zero-emission electrical transportation choices.
How will Metropolis Mild choose the charger places?
Design rendering of curbside EV charger
Metropolis Mild will choose charger places by way of an opt-in course of. Residents can request a charger in entrance of their houses if the placement meets this system necessities. Metropolis Mild will consider every request primarily based on predefined standards and select the places that finest help the fairness and environmental objectives of the Transportation Electrification Strategic Funding Plan. The utility will solicit enter from neighboring property house owners for every proposed location. Metropolis Mild is not going to set up the charging station if greater than 50% of the neighboring property house owners voice opposition.
How can I request a charger?
A hyperlink to the opt-in kind will likely be posted right here within the spring of 2022. Sign up to be alerted by e mail as soon as the opt-in course of begins and different program data is launched.