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

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the commercial charger rebate program you can find this on their website hawaii energy.com. So, for a new station it could be $4,500.00 per network station and then for the DC fast charger it could be $35,000.00 per network state. Now, the important thing here is that there was a State law that was passed last session, not this one last year, and where the program is now sustained with three cents on the barrel tax. What that means is that there could be over $500,000.00 of rebates annually that will be available to site owners to take advantage of, and that will help facilitate the installation of these chargers. So, these rebates can be used by local businesses, by non-profits, condo associations, apartment owners, even governments. So, this is a very powerful incentive for site owners. I think that was it on this one, and then lastly federal funding. So, Heather you may have the latest here, but my understanding is that there are monies that have come, that have landed or can be utilized by the State. My understanding is that the State DOT has the mandate to put together plans that would allow for the leverage of those funds so that they can actually build charging station hubs across the State. So that will also help increase the number of charging stations. I'll summarize now by just saying that. One decarbonization transportation is critical to enabling our climate action. We need to address the climate crisis, reducing the need for personal cars, and optimizing efficiency are really important. However, since cars are going to continue to be relevant moving forward, we need to figure out a way to allow for the equitable adoption of electric cars and public charging is the way to make that happen, thank you. AU: Thank you Noel for that presentation. Thank you, Councilmember Kimball. Commissioner's do you have any questions for staff or for, yes Commissioner Lin? LIN: Actually, I have quite a few questions but I'm in support of electric vehicles. I've actually buying a plug-in hybrid waiting for that to come in. But the question would be what is the cost to the businesses? Well, this HRS is requiring that you have to put in a stall, but what is the offering costs? The price of electrical supplies and materials is very expensive right now. What is the cost of labor to put it in? I'd hate to put this up bill in and require people to put in EV stalls. It's a big offer of cost to them, they pass on the cost to the consumer so that's one question. So, maybe I'll start with that. What is the cost of putting in an EV stall? KIMBALL: Sure, thank you, Dennis for the question. Starting just to clarify the HRS does require both the installation of the parking stall and the installation of the chargers and so for 100 stalls at the minimum. So, the cost of installing these chargers a large portion of it is that actual electrical infrastructure out to the charging locations. The chargers themselves, depending on what level you're purchasing could vary pretty significantly and maybe Noel can actually speak to some actual costs. So, that's why the electrical charging infrastructure for new lots is going to have to be there anyway to get to at least the one thing and then adding the additional chargers becomes less burdensome because you've already got that primary electrical infrastructure. The PUC Docket that Noel mentioned would actually allow HECO to provide that infrastructure for the customers and we hope that PUC Docket is resolved before this actually returns to Council for introduction. So, a lot of that cost for that the infrastructure piece would be developed by the utility. So, it can vary depending on how far you need to go from your current 15 EXHIBIT C