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Tesla Superchargers have been approved to be located at a Denny’s restaurant in Strasburg, Virginia according to Planning and Zoning Administrator Wyatt Pearson.
The restaurant location at 119 Hite Lane, off U.S. 11 is near where I-66 intersects with I-81. Strasburg is one of the five new Virginia Supercharger sites mentioned by an official at the opening of the Tesla Tysons Sales and Service Center in March.
Construction has yet to begin and so far we have no information on the timeline.
June 9, 2015: The two High-Amp Level 2 stations in Rehoboth Beach that are part of the “Charging Up Delaware” program are expected to be online “shortly.” The charging station enclosures are in place. They are awaiting some electronic components and then the J-1772 cables will be attached and signs put up. It may still be a few more weeks until they are available. More info will be shared here as it develops. Subscribe below for email notifications.
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The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) has started construction of a 5.1-megawatt solar generation system that will have approximately 16,500 photovoltaic panels on canopies that will cover more than 1,400 parking spaces at the college’s three main campuses in Dundalk, Essex and Catonsville.
Eleven ChargePoint charging stations, capable of charging 22 electric cars at once, will be installed as part of the project. There will be four dual-port charging stations each at Essex and Catonsville and three at the Dundalk campus.
Constellation Energy will own and operate the CCBC solar power systems. CCBC will purchase the electricity generated by the solar panels from Constellation under a 20-year power purchase agreement. The system is expected to generate around 6.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to meet about 27 percent of the college’s electricity needs.
“This zero-emissions system will allow the college to demonstrate the viability of clean energy resources and provide charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles to students, faculty and our local community,” said Gary Fromer, senior vice president of Distributed Energy for Constellation.
Work on the solar canopies has already begun at CCBC Dundalk. Lots #3 and #4 are closed this week due to the construction. The EV charging stations are expected to be available by the end of the year. A use fee will be implemented but the amount has not yet been determined.
Planned locations of the Maryland Energy Administration’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (EVIP) Fast Charger network have been announced. Grants were awarded to Royal Farms (15 stations), NRG eVgo (4 stations) and ChargePoint (2 stations).
The EVIP grant program, announced on April 24, 2014, provides up to $1,000,000 in matching funds for a public/private partnership to install a DC Fast Charging network throughout the State of Maryland. The three grantees will build 26 DC Fast Charging stations at 21 sites from Ocean City in the eastern side of the state to Hagerstown in the west. The DC Fast Charging sites will have both CHAdeMO and SAE Combo connector standards (either as a dual connector station or as two separate units).
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In this video recorded by @andrewket at the Tesla Tysons sales and service opening ceremony, one of the Virginia officials said that five new Supercharger locations were coming to Virginia.
Currently there are three Supercharger stations in Virginia: Glen Allen, Woodbridge and South Hill. The new locations said to be coming in the next year are in Charlottesville, Norfolk, Strasburg, Lexington and Wytheville.
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Spring flowers will soon be sprouting in Virginia. This year, DC Fast Chargers are sprouting up too. Central and Southern Virginia went from having just a few CHAdeMO and zero SAE Combo DC Fast Chargers in January, to having five dual-port stations with one of each connector installed in February. These are part of the Virginia Clean Cites program that partnered with Mac’s Service Center in Ashland and was recently approved for Staunton, VA.
By March 31, there should be 10 more dual-port DC Fast Chargers installed under this program for a total of 15 new CHAdeMO/SAE Combo stations. I spoke with Alleyn Harned, Executive Director of Virginia Clean Cities and he said many more are in the works. Stay tuned! (note: as of 3/13/15, the SAE Combo connectors have not yet been commissioned in all these stations)
Va. Clean Cities/Greenlots DC Fast Chargers Installed February, 2015:
Va. Clean Cities/Greenlots DC Fast Chargers Coming by March 31, 2015:
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UPDATE: Approved by City Council. Slated to be installed by end of March, 2015.
A DC Quick Charger is being proposed at the corner of Johnson and New Streets in downtown Staunton, VA. MAP
According to Tom Sliwoski, the city’s public works director, the city hopes the charging station will attract electric vehicle drivers to visit the downtown area.
A public hearing before the city council will be held on March 12th to consider authorizing the City Manager to enter into an agreement with a private company to install and operate a charging station and reserve two parking spaces for public use.
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If you’ve driven Rt. 50 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, you’ve no doubt seen it. Towering high above the fields north of Easton, the white, three-bladed wind turbine marks the site of the Wye Mills campus of Chesapeake College. The 50 kW wind turbine was erected in 2011 and generates enough power to save the regional community college $12,000 – $15,000 a year.
Chesapeake College now plans to give a big boost to its sustainability initiative by adding 2-megawatts of solar power generation. The system is expected to supply 35 percent of the electricity for the college and save $100,000 per year in energy costs. Under a 20-year power-purchase agreement with Solar City, the California-based company will erect solar panels on six acres of open land on the rural campus and build a solar canopy over a new 250 car parking lot.
Chesapeake College cut its energy consumption by 16 percent in an energy-awareness campaign started five years ago. With the addition of the wind turbine and solar arrays, the school hopes to eventually reach its goal to become carbon neutral. The solar project is the largest of its type at any community college in Maryland. The solar parking canopy will include ten electric vehicle charging stations that will be open to the public.
Director of Facilities at Chesapeake College, Anthony Patterson, tells me that the EV charging stations are planned to open by late summer or fall. There will be a fee to use the stations.
A report was released today that contained this map associated with a description of the Maryland electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program (eVIP). The eVIP program, announced last April, is a $1 million competitive grant meant to seed private investment in the build-out of a statewide fast charging network.
At the time it was announced, the network was proposed to encourage Interstate travel and extend as far west as Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County. However, this map shows only two sites west of Howard County and no sites west of Hagerstown.
The grant program is administered by the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) with participation of the Maryland Departments of Environment (MDE) and Transportation (MDOT) and Maryland Clean Cities Coalition.
I am seeking additional details, including the addresses of the sites chosen. I will report updates as I learn them.
This SAE Combo Connector DC Fast Charger is displayed in the ChargePoint booth at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas. It appears to be the same 24 kW Bosch DC Fast Charger that BMW is offering through a special program to their dealers to charge the i3.
This compact unit can be wall mounted and can charge a BMW i3 to 80% in about 30 minutes. The price is under $10,000. BMW is expected to announce the rollout of their own fast charger network at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The unit on display at CES is branded with the ChargeNow logo of the BMW program that is offered to i3 customers.
