El Paso Electric

EPE submits grant for electric car support study

El Paso Electric (EPE) has submitted an application for grant funding to the Department of Energy (DOE) under its Clean Cities Community Readiness and Planning for Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure funding program. 

EPE is working with Public Service Company of New Mexico; the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities Coalition; The University of Texas at El Paso; New Mexico State University; and the cities of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.  The development of the PEVCIP will incorporate data collection and modeling activities as well as a deployment strategy into a comprehensive region-wide plan.

EPE and other participants are jointly proposing to develop a Plug-in Electric Vehicle and Charging Infrastructure Plan (PEVCIP) for the Rio Grande Valley region that covers EPE’s far west Texas and southern New Mexico service territory, up to northern New Mexico to include Albuquerque and Santa Fe.   

The PEVCIP will outline needed system architecture, infrastructure, policies, and electric grid requirements in support of the deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) and the required charging infrastructure.  It is the intent that the PEVCIP be used as a road map to support future deployment of PEVs in the Rio Grande Valley region covered by the proposed plan.

“El Paso Electric continues to explore opportunities to help improve the environment,” said      El Paso Electric’s CEO David Stevens.  “The use of electric plug-in vehicles is one more step in that direction.”