The Lido Board or directors requested that an EV Charing Committee be formed to…

• Work with Management to review the current electric vehicle charging station statute develop a plan for charging stations, whether it be community use or private individual stations.
• The Committee was asked to provide costs for community use system, including ongoing maintenance costs, and how those costs will be recovered, or if they will become expenses in-common.
• The Committee was also asked to provide the Board with a recommended set of operation rules for a individual use charging stations.

The committee sent out a survey to the community requesting information on the number of people who were planning to purchase an Electric Vehicle (EV) or Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) with in the next 2-5 years. The majority of respondents (61%) stated they would own and EV or PHEV. Roughly half of these EV or PHEV owners indicated that they would install a personal use EV Charger (See Policy for installing a personal use EV Charger). The remainder of respondents stated they would like to have community use EV Charging stations installed.

As you can well bet, there are a many challenges with the installation of Community Use EV Stations. These can be summarized into Feasibility, Cost, and Management.

The feasibility has two main components. First, Power Capacity – The lido doesn’t have capacity on its’ service to power EV Stations so a new service would have to installed, then lines trenched and run to the Building 2 & Building 3 power rooms. All of this, including the metering and panels would be at HOA expense. This cost is unknown because unless we kick off a formal project and pull permits, companies will not estimate this but a source told be upward to $20K. Then we would have to locate the spaces in the garages that could be commandeered for EV Charing. The west garage only has 1, maybe two spaces that could be potential candidates. The East garage has 6 visitor spaces and a few other This we do have costs estimates for. The cost would roughly be $15-25K per station. ‘accessible’ spaces. Again, the cost of running the wiring and installing the stations would be at HOA expense. Whether or not we would qualify for any rebates from SDG&E or other the California Energy Commission us unknown, but the HOA would have to come up with the monies to cover the installation up-front. Some of these costs could be re-cooped over time via fees charged to the users.

Recommendations form the committee

• Adoption of the Individual Charging Station Policy & Conditional Use Agreement
• Hire an electrical contractor to estimate the customer-side costs for completing the new service (Trenching, running hardware, add new panels, installing cellular repeaters & Stations)
• Create a category in the next reserve study and start saving at least $20.00 per month, per unit ($53,000 per year) so that funds can be available in the next 2 years to complete the project.  
• The committee also reported that the Lido could not count on receiving any rebates as there is a time expiration on these by the end of 2023.