The Charge! Program provides grant funding to offset a portion of the cost to purchase and install new publicly accessible (multi-family housing located projects are not subject to public accessibility requirements) chargers for light-duty electric vehicles, or EVs, along transportation corridors, at multi-family housing facilities, destinations, transit parking locations, and workplaces across the Bay Area.
Donor Name: Bay Area Air Quality Management District
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $5 million
Details:
The California Legislature created the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) in 1955 as the first regional air pollution control agency in the country, recognizing that air pollution transcends political boundaries. The Air District is the public agency entrusted with regulating, measuring, and reducing sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties.
The goal of the Charge! Program is to rapidly expand access to EV charging stations to help achieve the Bay Area’s EV-adoption goals of 90 percent of the overall vehicle fleet by 2050. At the end of 2021, there were more than 266,000 EVs registered to Bay Area drivers.
This program is funded through the Air District’s Transportation Fund for Clean Air Regional Fund and other sources depending on funding availability, which provide grants to improve air quality within the nine-county Bay Area by reducing emissions of pollutants from on-road vehicles, and may include additional funding sources as available.
Funding is available to homeowner associations, public agencies, and private businesses through a competitive solicitation and is paid to Grantees/Project Sponsors on a reimbursement basis after the charging stations are placed into service. Awards are based on the anticipated electricity that a charging station can deliver to PEVs, and hence its potential to shift drivers away from ICE vehicles and reduce both petroleum use and air pollution. The Air District reserves the right to modify this solicitation at its sole discretion.
Funding Information
- The Air District’s FYE 2023 Charge! Program is now open and a total of $5 million in grant funding is available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be in good standing (i.e., compliant with all Air District, state, and federal air quality regulations).
- Eligible applicants include businesses, homeowners associations, on-profits, and public agencies.
- Projects may be voluntary and surplus.
- Projects must qualify for at least $250,000 in Charge Program funding per fiscal year.
- No single applicant may receive more than $3,000,000 in Charge Program funding per fiscal year.
For more information, visit Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
