2022-05-05 Windward Exh C (Item 3 County Council Initiated PL-CCI-2022-001)

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offices, businesses, etcetera. However, one of the challenges and we've known this for a while, is that some of these because they haven't been maintained or just not operational; You have some of these charges that haven't been working for years. So, there's clearly a challenge. Now, this is a couple of maps that I got from Plug Share. It kind of highlights the location of the chargers around the island. On the on the left, you'll see the DC fast chargers there 8 of them I believe, and then on the right, you see the Level 2 chargers, and there are about 33 of them around the island. The main reason I wanted to highlight this is that you'll see the tool icon there that just highlights that it's not operable. But, more importantly, there are these gaps. Like these deserts where you just don't have any public charging. So, if you're living in Hilo and you need to go to Kona for work or for shopping and you need to charge, and you can't access a charger that's going to be a no go for that individual. They're going to just opt to not do it or find an alternative way to get there and back. So, I just wanted to again highlight that this is as Heather mentioned, this is an environmental issue, it's a planetary issue, it's an economic issue but there's this big social equity piece that we need to be concerned about. My hope is that Bill 120 will facilitate this. Now there's this question. So how do you pay for all this? Like what does this mean for local businesses? I wanted to highlight that my view is that this is a win, win this can be a win, win for local businesses. Hosting an EV charger can actually be a competitive advantage, and it'll hopefully be clear as we go through this. So. first, as far as offsetting the cost. There are incentives and there's another slide for this as well. So, there's a Hawaii Energy Commercial Charger Rebate Program that will offset the cost of charges that are installed. There's also Federal Tax Credits that site owners can take advantage of and then Hawaiian Electric has also special rates that are available for site owners. So, they can actually have reduced commercial rates for hosting a charging station and there are a couple of Dockets in front of the PUC. One is especially interesting because it's called the EV Charger Make Ready Program . Where a site owner can actually avail of the utility coming in and dealing with all the infrastructure up until the point of the charging station and sometimes that could be very costly. So, with that Docket hopefully getting pass the utility will have the opportunity to actually contribute as well to the cost of getting these charging stations installed. As far as benefits go, I mean very clearly there's the contribution to sustainability, customer loyalty, there's also the opportunity for to leverage the fact that when you're a customer and you're plugged in at a store you tend to linger. You'll be there for 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour and you may actually linger more because you're waiting for your car to charge. There have been studies. There was one that I read about Target, for example,just proving that customers that have EVs that are charging actually linger more, linger longer in the store. So, there are actually benefits that are associated with having a charging station. The hosts can charge for the energy. It shouldn't be free. I firmly believe it shouldn't be free, so the fee that they charge the EV owner can actually be used to sustain the operation. There are certain arrangements that can also be made where the placement of ads at the charging stations can offset the cost of the operation. So, there are a number of opportunities here for local business owners to offset the cost, but more importantly, taking a look at the net impact is going to be really important because there are also these other financial benefits. I mentioned earlier, 14 EXHIBIT C