Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Consent
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDER APPROVAL OF CONCEPTUAL SITE PLAN, CHARGE READY TRANSPORT PROGRAM PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON FOR NO-COST INSTALLATION OF UTILITY SIDE AND CUSTOMER-SIDE MAKE READY INFRASTRUCTURE AT CITY-OWNED SITE LOCATED AT 18601 S. MAIN STREET, GRANT OF EASEMENT FOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND CONVEYANCE OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
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I. SUMMARY
The Charge Ready Transport (CRT) program offered through Southern California Edison (SCE) is helping to grow the transportation electrification market over a five-year period by installing electric infrastructure to support charging plug-in buses, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, forklifts, and other non-road cargo handling equipment. The CTR program will also provide rebates toward the purchase of charging stations.
Under this program, SCE performs infrastructure work on the utility side and specific work on the customer side of the meter at no cost to the City. Such work includes electrical design, permitting, construction, and installation of electrical equipment such as transformers, switchgear, meters, cabinets, underground conduits, conductors, and other associated work at the site. SCE will own and maintain the electrical equipment they install through the program to ensure it remains in good working condition.
The proposed project includes "make ready" infrastructure for four (4) single-port electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as shown on the conceptual plan provided by SCE (Exhibit No. 1).
The Charge Ready Transport Program Participation Agreement (Exhibit No. 2) is attached and sets forth the terms and conditions for program participants. The City will be responsible for procuring, installing, and maintaining the EV charging equipment for a period of 10 years. There is also a program requirement that the charging equipment includes a network service and that port-level data and other information such as u...
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