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COUNCIL 11 NEW ELECTRIC CAR CHARGERS TO BE INSTALLED THE NEW CHARGERS ARE PART OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF HALTON HILLS AND ONTARIO POWER GENERATION BRYAN MYERS bmyers@metroland.com Electric vehicle owners will have a several more places to recharge in Hal. ton Hills. An agreement be- tween the Town of Halton Hills and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will al- low for the installation of 11 new electric vehicle (EV) stations at six municipally owned sites. In e council is- sued at climate emergency declaration and outlined 14 priority actions to address climate change, including to "encourage staff and the public to switch to plug-in vehicles by installing more electric vehic! charging stations at mn facilities." THE NEW CHARGERS WILL BE LOCATED AT: - Edith St. parking lot (60 Edith St.) +» Willow St. North park- ing lot (14 Willow St. N.) + Halton Hills Fire De- partment headquarters (14007 10th Side Rd.) » Robert C. Austin Oper- ations Centre (11620 Trafal- gar Rd.) + Halton Hills Fair- grounds (1 Park Ave.) Dominion Gardens (118 Guelph St.) An installation oun EV chargers at the Centre was ‘conatdered ty Hills, but ultimately was deemed unfeasible due to Town of Halton Hills photo Councillor Jane Fogal charges her car at one of the two electric vehicle charging stations installed at Town Hall. infrastructure constraints. In 2020, town staff com- pleted the installation of a dual head podium charger at town hall, bringing the number of municipally owned chargers to 20 in Halton. Hills. While rall usage dipped in 2020. due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dean said EV charger usage grew 6 per cent in 2019 over 2018, with a 16-per-cent in- crease in unique users. Dean told council there would have been an in- cles at arate of $2 per hour, witl full charge requir- ing between two and four hours using the existing Level 2 chargers. i vel 3 charger could effectively provide a full charge in less than an hour, the cost is currently prohibitive at more than $100,000 and would also re- quire extensive upgrades to electricity distribution infrastructure. The Ivy chargers are in- stalled for an agreed upon period of 10 years with an option to renew for five years. The town will pay an annual fee to Ivy of $2,181 per charger ($23,991 annu- ally), but will also beable to collect revenue from fees lected from the char- rs minus a 4-per-cent transaction fee. The life expectancy of the chargers, Dean told couneh was about 15 years of sei rane the. “town charges a similar fee to the existing rate of $2 per hour, a total of about 3,000 hours per year are required to fully offset the annual fee and utility costs. While EV chargers at Mold-Masters SportsPlex, and the Acton Arena, are presently free to use, the new systems would spur a niform usage fee across all of Halton Hills char- gers. "It is unlikely, at least in the first few years, that the chargers wi be enough to fully offset their costs," the town report states, "however, any re- red costs will offsetim- is budgets, as the rate of the EV adoption increases in the coming years.” UONEH - dl UL | 2 TED ARNOTT, MPP WELLINGTON-HALTON HILLS ~ =a” >a As always, weke here to hela Woz ‘e eunr ‘Aepsinyy | k pf Call: 1-800-265-2366 “st Email: ted.arnottco@pc.ola.org magnuscards TAPPING INTO EVERYONE’S POTENTIAL. HALTONHILLS.CA/MAGNUSCARDS DOWNLOAD THE FREE APP TODAY! Download on the GET ITON @ App Store Google Play Rial Rit HALTON HILLS ActiVan