3 Jun 2024 Council meeting Transportation

Electric Vehicle Supply Cost Recovery Bylaw Revision

Motion
That “Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 2024 No. 7336.09” (a bylaw to change electric vehicle charging connection fees) pass first reading; That “Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 2024 No. 7336.09” pass second reading; and, That “Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 2024 No. 7336.09” pass third reading.
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda
Staff reportPage 1
Purpose
To revise Fees and Charges Bylaw 2021 No. 7336 to reflect changes to Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Connection Fees.
Staff report, page 1
Staff recommendation
Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 1. That Council give first reading to “Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 2024 No. 7336.09” (a bylaw to change electric vehicle charging connection fees). 2. That Council give second reading to “Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 2024 No. 7336.09”. 3. That Council give third reading to “Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw 2024 No. 7336.09”.
Staff report, page 1
DocumentsStaff report about Economic Development

Questions and answers

Councillor Paul Manly
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
Ms. Basket. For the presentation, Councilor Manley. Thank you, worship. And a quick question. I apologize for not emailing this in advance, because I heard from somebody. That a few of these chargers, the Chargers are six kilowatt chargers, but a few of them have dual chargers on them so that when there's two cars parked at it and charging they're actually getting 3 kw instead of six. And was there any consideration in that? In the bylaw because that would take longer to charge a vehicle and would be a higher rate of electrical. Charge for it. So I'm just wondering if there was any consideration for that, for
City staff answered
those. Three units, I think, was. City hall. And Merle Logan, three year worship to Councilor Manny. Yes, all of our public facing chargers that are networked are dual head chargers. So the situation that you described does exist at all six of our public facing. Networked chargers. We do have two non network chargers that this does not apply to. But it was considered in the original rate structure and. It's a balance between. What we can reasonably recover for the cost of the overall asset. There has been some changes. It's a quickly changing market. Measurements. Candidates does not recognize electric vehicle supply equipment. As appropriate measuring devices for electrical distribution. And so because we're not an electric utility, we would have to go through a separate process. That seems quite long and arduous. If it was the direction of council, we could absolutely look into it. But looking at all of this and then looking at what neighboring municipalities were, it follows a little more like a parking fee. You pay for your parking by time, usually. And then the extra bonus becomes the charger. But we are aware that. There is load sharing if there's two cars parked next to each other. Yeah, okay. Yeah. And it is a parking fee rather than an electrical charging a little bit. Yeah, you're not a utility. Okay. All