What is an EV Ready Plan?
The EV ready plan outlines a strategy that provides a minimum of one EV ready parking space per residential unit. This helps ensure Multi-Use Residential Buildings have an approach to make their building future-proofed to provide all residents with a simple process to access EV charging at their parking space.
What Does EV Ready Mean?
EV ready means the parking space features an energized outlet with a cover that provides a final connection point in an electrical wiring installation capable of delivering level 2 charging. The energized outlet with cover must be installed within .5M to 1.5M of the stall.
Who Can Create an EV Ready Plan?
Your plan must meet the program requirements to be eligible for the rebate. A licensed electrical contractor or a registered electrical engineer can create the plan.
To ensure your plan meets the eligibility criteria for the BC Hydro rebate, we will provide the following:
1) Full support on the creation and submission of the EV Ready Plan
- An on-site assessment of the building’s electrical systems
- Provide options and recommendations to review with the Strata to determine the best solution for their complex’s EV Ready Infrastructure Plan.
- Hold and host a meeting (either in person or over Zoom) to review the EV Ready Plan with the Strata to answer any questions or concerns before submitting it to BC Hydro
- Provide a survey to complete the demographics portion of the EV Ready Plan
- Assist the Strata in applying for the Clean BC EV Ready infrastructure rebates through
BC Hydro to ensure the Strata has all the correct forms completed to apply
- Complete the BC Hydro EV workbook for BC Hydro’s Engineers
- Introduce the Strata to EV energy monitoring & billing providers and ensure the Strata receive the support they will require after the EV Ready infrastructure has been built
2) Full support on the creation and submission of the EV Ready Plan
- Date EV plan was prepared
- Building Address (strata or rental building)
- Strata and/or contact for the building
- Our company details and the author who created the plan with their digital signature & electrical license
- Number of residential units
- Number of residential parking stalls
- Number of strata own commercial/visitor parking stalls, if it is applicable
- Number of parking stalls to be made EV Ready (minimum requirement of one EV Ready stall per residential unit)
- Number of EVSE’s to be installed
- Number of existing EV parking stalls
3) Electrical Capacity Assessment in kilowatts (kW)
- What is the existing electrical main service?
- What is the main service’s peak demand, and how was it determined?
- What is the spare capacity prior to EVSE installation?
4) Charging Performance Assessment
A charging performance assessment is the analysis of the required charging power to achieve a reasonable driving range when all parking spaces are used by an EV. Based on minimum kW, the assessment will include the estimated minimum kilometres charged per hour and explain how this was calculated.
5) Recommended Solution for Parking Spaces to be made EV Ready
A single recommended solution to meet or exceed the EV Ready Program requirement for a parking stall to feature an energized outlet with a cover that provides a final connection point to an electrical wiring installation capable of delivering level 2 charging. The recommendation will include the following:
- Identify the EVSE to breaker ratio and why this solution was chosen.
- What is the total potential EVSE load based on the number of EVSE’s per circuit?
- Is the existing service sufficient, and why? Or
- Is a service upgrade required, and if so, what is needed?
- Identify any existing EV chargers and how they will be integrated into the new EV charging system.
- Identify the existing telecom/network hardware and infrastructure conditions required to ensure its operation and functionality. Establish whether or not an energy management system is intended.
- Specify what level 2 networked EVSE model(s) will be compatible with the recommended design solution and a compatible EV energy management system.