RESOLUTION NO. 180513
Authorizing the City Manager to partner with the Kansas City Regional
Clean Cities Coalition Metropolitan Energy Center, the Kansas City Power and
Light Company, and other stakeholders in submitting a grant application to the Department
of Energy which would fund the development
of a feasibility analysis for pairing
Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) charging infrastructure with street
light infrastructure in the public right-of-way.
WHEREAS, the
City in collaboration with Kansas City Regional Clean Cities Coalition,
Metropolitan Energy Center, the Kansas City Power and Light Company and other
stakeholders, desires to fund a feasibility analysis for pairing Electric
Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) charging infrastructure with street light
infrastructure in the public right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, the City and its partners may receive
funding for the feasibility from a grant offered by the Department of Energy;
and
WHEREAS, the grant requires a
minimum $2,000,000.00 proposal, of which $1,000,000.00 is derived from grant
funding, with matching funds of $1,000,000.00 from in-kind services or monetary
funding; and
WHEREAS, the
purpose of this grant commitment is to determine the feasibility of using
streetlight infrastructure to support Electric Vehicle charging; and
WHEREAS, the analysis will
provide useful information related to costs and other challenges associated
with providing streetlight charging
and make recommendations to address those challenges; and
WHEREAS, the analysis will
factor in the need for equity and anticipate issues specific to streetlight charging access in lower income
neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the analysis will
be supplemented by decision support
tools, in the form of predictive modeling, to analyze diffusion rates and
optimal charging locations; and
WHEREAS, if awarded the grant, the results of the study will be
reported back to Council before January 1, 2020; and
WHEREAS, Council, in Resolution No. 170484 adopted on July 20, 2017, asserted that the City
“continues to support the principles of the Paris Climate Agreement” and Resolution No.
170586 adopted on August 17, 2017, asserted that the City “is making progress to ensure that buildings are more
energy efficient, wind and solar are increasingly a greater part of the City’s
electricity mix, and electric vehicles are being used in significantly greater
numbers”; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED
BY THE
COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the City Manager is authorized to partner with the Kansas City Regional Clean Cities
Coalition, Metropolitan Energy Center, Kansas City Power and Light Company, and
other key stakeholders to submit a
grant application which would fund a
feasibility analysis for pairing
Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) charging infrastructure with street
light infrastructure in the public right-of-way.
Section 2. Future in-kind services and local funding will be required
to match the grant, and that future funding will be associated with a
successful grant application. Any future city funding requirements will be
subject to appropriations.
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