Bay Area EV Adoption Getting Lift from Grants, Other Funding Opportunities
California Energy Markets
An infusion of state and federal funding, along with public-private partnerships, is accelerating electric-vehicle adoption and charging infrastructure in Oakland and throughout the greater Bay Area. Central to these efforts is community choice aggregator Ava Community Energy, which has been working to get more public charging infrastructure installed.
“At Ava Community Energy we recognized that building a network of fast chargers across our community—mostly in areas close to multifamily housing where overnight charging is often not accessible—was one of the biggest actions we could take to drive the energy transition locally,” CEO Nick Chaset said in a June 1 LinkedIn post.
“We have been working with two great partners—EV Realty and Calibrant Energy—to bring this vision to reality. We are working together to build our first 11 fast charging depots including our first project in West Oakland that we expect to start operating this fall,” Chaset wrote.
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