http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060019101 ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Utilities seek larger part in charging station rollout
Jeffrey Tomich, E&E reporter EnergyWire: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 It's unsurprising that electric utilities stand to benefit from the sale of plug-in vehicles, providing a bump -- even a small one -- for flat-lining sales. Utilities throughout the country that are looking for authority to spend millions of dollars building out charging networks say their customers will benefit, too -- even those who don't own EVs. Just in the past six months, the state of Washington passed legislation allowing utilities to put EV charging infrastructure in their rate base. In California, Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison are proposing huge investments in EV charging infrastructure (ClimateWire, Feb. 10). In the Southeast, Southern Co.'s Georgia Power subsidiary is spending $12 million on a pilot program to install as many as 50 public EV charging stations by the end of 2016 (EnergyWire, March 5). The proposals are surfacing in the Midwest, too. In Illinois, Commonwealth Edison is lobbying for a bill that would allow it to build 5,000 charging stations. And Kansas City Power & Light is asking utility regulators in Missouri and Kansas to recover costs for a 1,000-station EV charging network (EnergyWire, Jan. 28). The proposals follow the release of a white paper by the Edison Electric Institute a year ago, calling electrification of the transportation sector essential to the long-term health of the industry. While the Kansas City area has relatively few plug-in vehicles on the road today, KCP&L's $20 million Clean Charge Network proposal is being closely watched by the industry as an important test case. [© eenews.net] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Utilities-seek-larger-part-in-charging-station-rollout-tp4676011.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 For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
