Management Office, which will coordinate “execution among vendors and contractors hired for the program.” SCE will use a request for proposal process to select contractors. Similarly, “the customer would have to commit to the use of qualified and certified union labor for make-ready installation,” to be eligible for PG&E’s FleetReady infrastructure rebate for make-ready infrastructure on a customer’s existing service connection. It is clear that there will be ample opportunity for non-utility entities to participate in the market to install makeready infrastructure to support charging stations. Additionally, we direct the utilities to conduct a competitive process to identify electrical contractors that are qualified to perform make-ready installations. This will ensure the market continues to grow for all qualified installers. No party expresses concerns about the impact of these programs on the market for charging equipment. When qualifying charging equipment, SCE plans to rely on adopted efficiency and safety standards to define its requirements and accept a large number of vendors and charging equipment models, as SCE has done for its Charge Ready Pilot Program. Participating customers, not SCE, ultimately select the qualified charging equipment they need for their operations. SCE suggests, and we agree, that “[t]his approach allows customers to select equipment that works best for their charging needs, and encourages third-party market participants to provide a variety of established and innovative technologies to meet customer demand.” PG&E states its cost estimates are designed only to support the installation of the make-ready infrastructure, and that it “has not endeavored to estimate the cost of EV chargers and network operations equipment, which will be borne by customers and/or third parties.”
Management Office, which will coordinate “execution among vendors and contractors hired for the program.” SCE will use a request for proposal process to select contractors. Similarly, “the customer would have to commit to the use of qualified and certified union labor for make-ready installation,” to be eligible for PG&E’s FleetReady infrastructure rebate for make-ready infrastructure on a customer’s existing service connection. It is clear that there will be ample opportunity for non-utility entities to participate in the market to install makeready infrastructure to support charging stations. Additionally, we direct the utilities to conduct a competitive process to identify electrical contractors that are qualified to perform make-ready installations. This will ensure the market continues to grow for all qualified installers. No party expresses concerns about the impact of these programs on the market for charging equipment. When qualifying charging equipment, SCE plans to rely on adopted efficiency and safety standards to define its requirements and accept a large number of vendors and charging equipment models, as SCE has done for its Charge Ready Pilot Program. Participating customers, not SCE, ultimately select the qualified charging equipment they need for their operations. SCE suggests, and we agree, that “[t]his approach allows customers to select equipment that works best for their charging needs, and encourages third-party market participants to provide a variety of established and innovative technologies to meet customer demand.” PG&E states its cost estimates are designed only to support the installation of the make-ready infrastructure, and that it “has not endeavored to estimate the cost of EV chargers and network operations equipment, which will be borne by customers and/or third parties.”
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