Reading the info that our Electric Company has under policies, a new EV customer wanting to install a level 2 in home chargers may have to pay
$4,000-5000 bill for upgrading electric service to their neighborhood. What is not said is under what circumstances that may happen.
I have a phone call into the company (who are not seeing customers face to face anymore) and will try to find more information on that "$$$charge.
A message was left for me: " Distribution Engineering has become concerned about the increased loads from EV charging and is trying to gather information ahead of time. And, if it looks like the car charger will push the load over neighborhood capacity, they are billing the individual EV owner the cost of the upgrade."
I take that to mean that if I am, say # 9 in my hood to request an EV charger to connect to their grid, I may be liable for at least $4000...I have a lot of questions....
$4,000-5000 bill for upgrading electric service to their neighborhood. What is not said is under what circumstances that may happen.
I have a phone call into the company (who are not seeing customers face to face anymore) and will try to find more information on that "$$$charge.
A message was left for me: " Distribution Engineering has become concerned about the increased loads from EV charging and is trying to gather information ahead of time. And, if it looks like the car charger will push the load over neighborhood capacity, they are billing the individual EV owner the cost of the upgrade."
I take that to mean that if I am, say # 9 in my hood to request an EV charger to connect to their grid, I may be liable for at least $4000...I have a lot of questions....