Quest for funding continues, as NCRD hears update for electric charging system plan for Highway 16

Regional District members heard an update last month on the progress
towards an electric car charging station program for Northern BC

The plan forward towards providing for charging stations for electric cars was outlined at the most recent North Coast Regional District meeting of January, as the District's Corporate Officer delivered an update from the findings of Highway 16/97 Electric Vehicle Network Study.

As part of his presentation to the District Board, Daniel Fish outlined some notes from a meeting of the Advisory Committee in December, outlining how the Community Energy Association will be seeking funding through a Clean BC grant program, with plans to provide local governments with a funding requirement document sometime in February.

Once they have had a chance to review the document, local government officials will be asked if they are interested in hosting a charging station, and if they are, will they be willing to contribute between 2,000 to 5,000  dollars towards installation and contracted maintenance.

The last residents of the region had heard about the charging station plans for the North Coast and Haida Gwaii was back in August, when Committee had received funding for the study from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

The charging station project has been one that has been long advocated by Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain, who has travelled across Northern BC in the last year to explore sustainable energy issues, part of his Sustainable City 2030 program.

You can review some of the progress when it comes to the push towards electric charging stations along the Highway 16 corridor here.

For more items of note related to Regional District see our archive page here.

A wider overview of some of the Sustainable City plans can be explored from our archive page here.

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