The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs recently announced the award of 105 electric vehicle charging stations for 25 cities and towns across the state.
The following communities are receiving charging stations, which will be sited on downtown streets, in parking garages, at shopping malls, at schools and colleges, and in commercial, medical, and industrial parks: Athol, Barnstable, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Falmouth, Greenfield, Hanover, Holyoke, Hopkinton, Kingston, Lancaster, Lenox, Lexington, Lowell, Nantucket, New Bedford, New Salem, Newton, Northampton, Orange, Salem, Tyngsboro, and Worcester.
The Commonwealth will also be installing additional charging stations, separate from these municipal installations, at Logan Airport garages, at Logan Express parking lots, and at MBTA commuter parking locations.
The Department of Energy Resources had invited cities and towns to apply for electric vehicle charging equipment grants, funded with approximately $280,000 made available through a settlement obtained by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office in 2007 for alleged pollution control equipment violations by an Ohio-based power plant. That funding was subsequently augmented through a public-private partnership with Coulomb Technologies of California, which received a U.S. Department of Energy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to provide installation of electric charging equipment and re-granted awards in the form of charging stations to Massachusetts cities and towns through the company’s ChargePoint America program.
For more information about this initiative, please visit:
Background information:
MA Energy and Environmental Affairs: Clean Cities Coalition
U.S. Dept. of Energy: Clean Cities 2010 Vehicle Buyer's Guide
U.S. Dept. of Energy: Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center
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