'This is not good for ratepayers' 'PG&E wants ratepayers to pay for EVSE they will profit from' 'SCE ratepayers must pay for EVSE they will profit from'
% Give CPUC your views on this http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/contactus/ % http://news.sys-con.com/node/3654874 SDG&E To Install Thousands Of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations January 28, 2016 PR Newswire - Pilot program authorizes 3,500 electric vehicle chargers at 350 sites SAN DIEGO, Jan. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) Electric Vehicle Grid-Integration pilot project, signaling the "green light" for the company to own and install thousands of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at businesses and multi-family communities, including in underserved neighborhoods, throughout San Diego and south Orange Counties. An important program benefit is that it should maximize the use of renewable energy to charge electric vehicles and minimize the need for new fossil-fuel power plants ... In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown set a bold vision of having 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles on the road in California by 2025. For the San Diego region to meet a mere 10 percent of that target – 150,000 electric vehicles – EV growth and supporting infrastructure must increase at a much quicker pace. SDG&E is now poised and positioned to accelerate the EV race. Today, the San Diego region has only 19,000 EVs and the barriers to clean transportation are particularly sobering. Fifty percent of SDG&E's customers live in multi-family communities. Without access to vehicle charging, there is virtually no way for these residents to ever become part of the solution to significantly reduce air pollution or to create real personal savings by eliminating gasoline bills. SDG&E's initiative will help address gaps like this in the market and ensure charging is accessible to all customers. The company will install charging stations at up to 350 businesses and multi-family communities throughout the region, with 10 chargers at each location for a total of 3,500 separate chargers. SDG&E will install at least 10 percent of the chargers in disadvantaged communities. SDG&E's project will overcome many current obstacles to EV growth and reassure local EV drivers that they will have a place to charge their vehicles. In addition ... the pilot features special rates that encourage EV drivers to charge their cars when electricity supply, including renewable energy, is plentiful and energy prices are low ... California has led the way to de-carbonizing electricity over the last several decades, helping to pave the way for the modernization of the transportation sector. With SDG&E's energy portfolio being made up of 33 percent renewable energy and no coal, drivers will be plugging into one of the cleanest electric grids in the country. Furthermore, with the pilot's special rate encouraging drivers to charge exactly at the times of day when solar power is at its height, customers will literally be driving on sunshine. SDG&E has an extensive track record of promoting electric vehicles, both in the community and for its employees ... SDG&E also is adding 163 more plug-in EVs to its fleet as part of a five-year purchase plan. For those interested in learning more about this EV charging station program, email EV @sdge.com. SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides ... service to 3.5 million consumers ... SDG&E's Customer Contact Center at 800-411-7343, on Twitter (@SDGE) and Facebook [ http://www.facebook.com/sandiegogasandelectric ] ... SOURCE San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) [© 2016 SYS-CON Media] ... http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sdge-to-install-thousands-of-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-300211765.html -pr- http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0127-electric-cars-20160126-story.html ... the state largest electric providers ... have sweeping proposals that would require ratepayers to cover 100% of the construction costs, and would give the utilities complete ownership of the new stations' wires and chargers. This is not good for ratepayers, and it's even worse for competition — after all, who else could construct charging stations with someone else's money? Fortunately, there's still time for utility regulators to amend these proposals and add safeguards to limit ratepayers' risk ... ... http://www.orovillemr.com/opinion/20160127/letter-pge-wants-to-charge-us-to-charge-electric-vehicles Letter: PG&E wants to charge us to charge electric vehicles 01/27/16 ... http://energyefficiencymarkets.com/california-utilities-ev-charging/ Two California Utilities Get Creative with EV Charging February 1, 2016 CPUC approved two utility proposals to expand charging ... ... http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/SCE-ratepayers-plugin-driver-or-not-must-pay-for-30k-LA-CA-area-EVSE-tp4679969.html SCE ratepayers (plugin driver or not) must pay for 30k LA-CA area EVSE Jan 20 2016 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-BAD-for-ratepayers-CA-Utilities-Installing-public-EVSE-tp4680228.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
