This is a competitive grant solicitation for up to $10,000,000 for projects that will deploy fast electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure for the public. Eligible projects will provide EV charging infrastructure to support fast charging for the public. Eligible projects must be open to the public. Projects may not restrict public use of installed chargers. Examples of projects that may qualify include, but are not limited to, any combinations of the following:
- Charging plazas at airports: Charging infrastructure deployed in public waiting lots to allow for charging while transportation services drivers are in between service or for charging rental car fleets.
- Charging plazas in dense urban areas: Charging infrastructure to support drivers in areas of high utilization. These areas include downtown areas, high-density housing, commercial developments, entertainment complexes, sports arenas, and transit hubs.
- Charging plazas along highways: Charging infrastructure deployed near highways to support drivers traveling along the state highway system.
All deployments must be at existing structures or facilities and involve negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. A project that receives incentive funding from another CEC grant funding opportunity (GFO) or block grant incentive project is NOT eligible for this GFO.
EV Charging Station Accessibility and Availability
Charging stations shall be publicly accessible and accommodate safety requirements of EV drivers. The following requirements apply:
- Chargers must be publicly available and accessible at least 18 hours per day.
- Charging locations and parking areas must be well-lit. The charger user must be able to easily read any instructions on the charger and the area around the vehicle must have adequate lighting to allow the driver to safely walk from the charger to the charging port on the vehicle.
- Sites must incorporate signage as required by any applicable laws, ordinances, regulations, and standards.
- All successful Applicants must comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, regulations, and standards; all federal, state, and local electrical and building codes for construction; and all Americans with Disability Act (ADA) codes.
Serving Underserved Communities - There is no minimum requirement for EV charger installation within disadvantaged communities and/or low-income communities. Bonus points, however, will be awarded to passing applications that install at least fifty percent (50%) of ports within disadvantaged communities and/or low-income communities.
- Disadvantaged communities are communities disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution and with population characteristics that make them more sensitive to pollution. Disadvantaged communities are designated by the California Environmental Protection Agency per Senate Bill 535.
- Low-income communities are defined per Assembly Bill 1550 (Gomez, Chapter 369, Statutes of 2016) as census tracts with median household incomes at or below 80 percent of the statewide median income or with median household incomes at or below the threshold designated as low income by the Department of Housing and Community Development’s list of state income limits adopted under California Health and Safety Code Section 50093.
- Applicants should use the California Air Resources Board California Climate Investments Priority Populations 2022 CES 4.0 map (https://webmaps.arb.ca.gov/PriorityPopulations/) to identify disadvantaged communities and low-income communities.
Charging Equipment - Only direct current fast chargers (DCFC) are eligible for funding. Level 1 and Level 2 chargers are not eligible for funding. Each site must include a minimum of ten (10) DCFC ports.
- At least 50 percent of the connectors installed for a project must be SAE J1772 Combined Charging System (CCS) connectors. The charging sites may use an additional mix of connectors, chargers, and technology systems that are required to service vehicles. Valid connector types are limited to SAE J1772 (CCS) and SAE J3400 (NACS).
- All charging ports must supply a minimum of 150 kW to a vehicle when requested. ALM and similar systems are optional. ALM systems manage load across multiple Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) or charging ports to share electrical capacity and/or automatically manage power at each EVSE or charging port. In some cases, ALM may enable installation of EVSE at sites that would otherwise require significant electrical upgrades.
For sites that actively utilize automated load management (ALM), charging ports must: - Be capable of supplying 150 kW
- Supply a minimum of 100 kW to a vehicle when requested
- Projects may include deployment of renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) or energy storage systems for supplying power to chargers or charging systems provided the Applicant demonstrates that the DER is a component of the system necessary to address their charging requirements. Non-renewable DERs ARE NOT eligible for reimbursement under this solicitation.
Chargers must meet all the following requirements: - All chargers must be networked. For the purposes of this solicitation, a networked charger is defined as a charger that has/is:
- Network connectivity with one of the following:
- IEEE 802.11n for high-bandwidth wireless networking, or
- IEEE 802.3 for Ethernet for local- or wide-area network applications,
- or cellular network of 4G or newer
- The ability to receive remote software updates, real-time protocol translation, encryption, and decryption, including:
- Internet Protocol (IP)-based processor which must support multiple protocols, and
- Compliance with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP and IPv6.
- The ability to connect to a network’s back-end software.
- Certification for Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) 1.6 or newer by the Open Charge Alliance (Core and Safety certificates), or have OCPP 2.0.1 certification proof of payment, or have an OCPP 2.0.1 test tool report showing compliance for Core and Security.
- The AB 2061 EV charger reliability regulation will require publicly funded chargers installed and operational on or after January 1, 2026, to be OCPP 2.0.1 certified. Charging equipment that is not OCPP 2.0.1 certified and not installed by January 1, 2026, will not be in compliance with the AB 2061 regulation.
- ISO 15118 ready.
- Equipment must include a minimum six-year networking agreement which may be included as match share.
Chargers must not require a subscription or membership to dispense energy. - The equipment must be able to withstand extreme weather conditions associated with the deployment area, including extreme temperature, flooding, heavy rains, and high winds.
- Display screens must be protected from malfunctions due to condensation and any local area weather conditions.
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