Infrastructure Coordination & Demonstration Partnerships

In addition to individual stakeholder actions, a large number of partnerships have been formed to coordinate regional infrastructure efforts and demonstrate specific technology concepts. This is an ever-changing landscape but fosters innovative ideas and allows stakeholders to experiment and learn from other organizations.

• “EV Project” – ECOtality provider and coordinator, 16 major cities (nationally)
  • Partners: US DOE, San Diego, San Francisco, Nissan, GM, SDGE
  • Core role: infra equipment & planning, network services, data
  • http://www.theevproject.com/
• San Diego “Smart City”
  • Partners: City of San Diego, GE, SDG&E, UCSD, CleanTECH
  • Core role: test smart technology, streamline infra installations, renewable power, study consumer behavior
  • http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110131006686/en/Ground-breaking-Collaboration-Empowers-San-Diegans-Lead-Clean
• Bay Area Air Quality Management District EV projects
  • Partners: MTC, Clean Cities, multiple EVSPs
  • Core role: Grants, facilitate best practice discussions, outreach workshops, outreach to fleet managers
  • 3,000 home chargers, 2000 public chargers, 50 fast chargers, battery switch taxi project
  • Requiring data collection from public stations for evaluation
  • http://www.baaqmd.gov/?sc_itemid=367B61C6-2327-476B-B452-E4A43253BAC9
• Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC); http://baclimate.org/
  • Partners: led by city mayors, SVLG, BofA, PGE, EV Alliance, BetterPlace, Coulomb, ABAG, BAAQMD
  • Core role in PEVs:
    • EV Strategic Council – BA stakeholder leader forum
    • $5M project to get EVs in BA municipal fleets
    • EV fleet working group
    • EV Conference (June, Bay Area, SVLG)
• Ready, Set, Charge! California
  • Partners: EV Communities Alliance, CFCI, ABAG, BACC
  • Core role: EV friendly policy development and EVSE installation streamlining; statewide outreach to 41 communities - infrastructure guidance document for government planners; EV101 workshops
  • Bay Area specific infrastructure coordination under an umbrella project called “BA EV Corridor Project”
• Sonoma County
  • Recipient of MTC and other infra grants, large # stations, corridor plans on county property, public fleets
  • Coordinating county-wide planning forum and developing guideline tool for local cities and businesses (fleets and chargers)
  • Created a legal coordinating entity - “Regional Climate Protection Authority” to help create common permitting between cities in county
• City of San Francisco
  • Partners: Coulomb, MTC, Bay Area Climate Collaborative
  • Core role: Network of public chargers, city fleet of PEVs,
  • http://www.sfenvironment.org/our_programs/topics.html?ssi=7&ti=17
• SCAQMD EV projects
  • Partners: Private partnerships typically ave $3 for every AQMD $1
  • Core role: Clean Fuels Program, over $16M in 2009, 20% of which for electric and hybrids
  • http://www.aqmd.gov/tao/about.html
• LA “SoCalEV”
  • Partners: SCAQMD, LADWP, SCE, UCLA (?)
  • Core role: outreach/edu, streamline infra installs, incentives, etc
  • http://www.socalev.org/
• Clean Cities (U.S. DOE) – Promotes green fleet strategies regionwide
  • Each Clean City program is unique, but most have PEV activities around local infrastructure planning; outreach to dealerships; outreach to fleet managers; and more
  • 13 California Clean Cities: http://www.afdc.energy.gov/cleancities/progs/coalition_locations.php
• CALSTART
  • Partners: SCAQMD, BAAQMD
  • Convening a CA EV infrastructure working group (fall 2010) with intent to help share ideas between northern and southern CA
  • V2G research and demonstration project
  • Fleet managers outreach and heavy-duty vehicle demonstrations
• Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) – community planning
  • Project Get Ready – www.projectgetready.org; List of actions local leaders can take to make their community a plug-in pioneer
  • On-line calculator for comparing total cost of operation (TCO) between PEVs and ICEs. http://projectgetready.com/js/tco.html
  • PEV Readiness Study with Roland Berger Consultant – assessing the readiness of America’s top 50 metro areas (2010); 14 “leader” cities identified 6 of which are in California
• Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) – 17 cities globally working to become PEV ready, part of the broader C40 Cities program of the CCI.
  • 4 of the 17 cities are in the US - LA, Portland, Chicago, Houston
  • Focus is business development, finance options, local incentives, etc
• UC Davis West Village new community development
  • Zero Net Energy home plans, on-site power (solar, biomass), local load management, integrated transit/commute planning
  • Considering dedicated PEV circuits in all buildings
• V2G demonstration: Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Car Consortium
  • http://www.magicconsortium.org/