$21 Million Now Available to Install EV Fast Chargers In New York

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New Aggressive Program Helps the Enlargement of Infrastructure to Enhance Client Entry to Electrical Car Charging Preliminary Spherical of Funding Focuses on Upstate Charging Alongside Key Journey Corridors

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Governor Kathy Hochul in the present day introduced $21 million is now out there to put in electrical car quick chargers alongside main journey corridors throughout New York State. Funded by a federal Nationwide Electrical Car Infrastructure (NEVI) grant, the State’s new aggressive Upstate NEVI Direct Present Quick Charger (DCFC) program helps the growth of DCFC infrastructure to enhance shopper entry to a community of dependable electrical car charging. The preliminary spherical of funding focuses on areas alongside and north of Interstate 84, together with areas of the State north to the Canadian border and west to Buffalo.

“As we make the transition away from gas-powered vehicles, New York is accelerating the number of electric vehicle fast chargers available to reduce harmful emissions and improve air quality in our communities,” Governor Hochul mentioned. “With the strong support of the Biden-Harris Administration, this federal funding supplements our ongoing investments in clean transportation advancements and ensures drivers throughout the state have access to a quick charge when they need it.”

The aggressive Upstate NEVI DCFC Programadministered by the New York State Power Analysis and Improvement Authority (NYSERDA) in partnership with the New York State Division of Transportation (NYSDOT), supplies funding to certified electrical car (EV) infrastructure builders to put in and function DCFC stations at a number of websites alongside Federal Freeway Administration-designated Different Gasoline Corridors (AFCs). Proposed websites should meet all federal necessities, together with being positioned inside one journey mile of an exit, being publicly accessible 24 hours a day, seven days every week, and being able to cost at the least 4 electrical automobiles concurrently. Websites are additionally required to have a minimum of 150 kilowatts and should meet federal uptime necessities for the proportion of time the charging station is purposeful. Proposals that shut gaps between present and deliberate charging stations, supply facilities equivalent to restrooms and meals, or have stations that present a number of sorts of charging connectors (CCS and NACS) will likely be prioritized.

Designated AFCs eligible below the primary spherical of this system embrace:

• Interstate 81
• Interstate 84
• Interstate 86
• Interstate 87 north of I-84
• Interstate 88
• Interstate 90
• Interstate 190
• Interstate 390
• Interstate 490
• New York 13 between I-86 and I-81
• New York 17 north of I-84

Proposals are due on December 4, 2024 by 3:00 p.m. ET. A whole checklist of all eligibility rules and evaluation criteria may be discovered on the solicitation abstract on NYSERDA’s web site.

NYSERDA will host a webinar on September 19 from 4:00 to five:00 p.m. and one other webinar on October 21 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. to offer extra particulars on the solicitation, undertaking necessities and the appliance course of.

New York State Power Analysis and Improvement Authority President and CEO Doreen M. Harris mentioned, “NYSERDA is eager to facilitate access to this federal support for charging station developers to expand the availability of charging stations in New York. This funding provides more charging options for drivers along highly traveled roads, shortening the distance between stations, reducing range anxiety, and improving system reliability.”

New York State was allotted $175 million below the federal NEVI program and was one of many first states to open a DCFC web site with NEVI funding in December 2023. This was rapidly adopted by two extra areas opening within the first quarter of 2024 and 6 extra DCFC NEVI-funded websites are anticipated to come back on-line in New York by the top of subsequent yr. New York’s NEVI Plan describes how the State will make investments its funding and was developed by NYSDOT in collaboration with NYSERDA; the New York State Division of Environmental Conservation (DEC); the New York Energy Authority (NYPA); the New York State Division of Public Service (DPS); the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA); and the Lengthy Island Energy Authority (LIPA).

Moreover, Governor Hochul in March introduced greater than 100 new electric vehicle fast chargers will likely be in-built New York Metropolis. Electrical car purchases in New York have risen 660 % within the final 5 years, and there are at the moment greater than 15,000 chargers (a mixture of DCFC and Degree 2 chargers) at greater than 4,000 areas throughout the state. Federal funding obtained in January 2024 has additional facilitated this progress with New York State receiving a $15 million Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Program Grant for small- to medium-sized cities, state parks and different vacationer locations, equivalent to accommodations to construct out the variety of EV chargers. Separate federal awards below this program have been made to the New York Metropolis Division of Transportation and Oneida County. Additionally, New York State was additionally awarded $13 million to repair or replace outdated, damaged or non-operational electrical car charging ports by way of the Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator Program.

Courtesy of Governor of NY.