Peninsula Clean Energy To Fund EV Charging Ports In Redwood City

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Peninsula Clean Energy, which provides electricity for San Mateo County, is providing up to $248,000 toward the installation of 124 electric vehicle charging ports in a new Redwood City parking structure.

According to a news release Tuesday, it’s the first and among the largest funding under the EV Ready program, which has a goal of installing 3,500 charging ports in the county in the next four years.

"The County has committed to achieving carbon neutrality from its operations by 2035,” said David Canepa, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, in a news release. “Installing EV chargers is one of many investments that will need to be made to transition our polluting gas vehicles to clean electric vehicles. The partnership with Peninsula Clean Energy is helping the County make deep emissions reductions."

The parking structure, the Government Center Parking Structure in Redwood City, is for county employees and is expected to open this fall. It may be available to the public on evenings and weekends.

“This is a fantastic example of public agency leadership and just a taste of the potential for EV charging deployment in San Mateo County,” Peninsula Clean Energy CEO Jan Pepper said in a news release. “Electrifying our vehicles is central to reducing our transportation-related emissions and our larger mission of mitigating harmful climate change.”