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Charge Program
Expanding access to electric vehicle charging stations.
Announcement:
The Fiscal Year Ending (FYE) 2025 Charge! Program is tentatively scheduled to open in Quarter 1 of 2025. The Draft Program Guidance is now available for public comment and review until 5:00 PM PST, January 10, 2025. Public comments must be received via email and can be sent to Charge! Program staff at charge@baaqmd.gov. Environmental Justice groups and community-based organizations can schedule meetings with Charge! Program staff at charge@baaqmd.gov for more information or to provide input.
Grantee Portal
The Charge! Program provides grant funding to offset a portion of the cost to purchase and install new publicly accessible (multi-family housing located projects are not subject to public accessibility requirements) chargers for light-duty electric vehicles, or EVs, at multi-family housing facilities, destinations, transit parking locations, and workplaces across the Bay Area. The goal of the Charge! Program is to rapidly expand access to EV charging stations to help achieve the Bay Area’s EV-adoption goals of 90 percent of the overall vehicle fleet by 2050. At the end of 2023, there were more than 448,000 EVs registered to Bay Area drivers.
The Charge! Program is funded through the Air District’s Transportation Fund for Clean Air Regional Fund, which provides grants to improve air quality within the nine-county Bay Area by reducing emissions of pollutants from on-road vehicles. This program is also funded by the United States Department of Transportation’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program, made available by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to strategically deploy publicly accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure and other alternative fueling infrastructure. The Charge! Program may include additional funding sources as available.
FYE 2025 Charge! Program
The Air District’s FYE 2025 Charge! Program will tentatively open in Quarter 1 of 2025. A total of at least $20 million in grant funding is expected to be available.
Application Resources
- IRS W-9 Form
- EVITP Certification Form
- Site / Facility Form
- Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP)
- Priority Population Areas Map
Questions & Answers
The FYE 2023 Charge! Program is now closed. The Air District provided responses to written questions received in the Questions and Answers document in the "FYE 2023 Charge! Program" section.
General questions regarding the Charge! Program can be submitted to the email address shown on this page.
This web page will be updated with additional information on future solicitations. Use the form at the bottom of the page to sign up for the email Charge! Program email list.
Sign up to receive updates on the latest Charge Program activities via email notifications for all Charge Program categories.
Resources
- Sample Charge! Program Contract Template
- Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) Areas
- Planned and Potential Development (PDA) Areas
- AB 617 Community Health Protection Program
- Electric Vehicle Information Handout
FYE 2023 Charge! Program
The Air District’s FYE 2023 Charge! Program is now closed. The FYE 2023 Charge! Program was a competitive solicitation, and the Air District reviewed, scored, and ranked all eligible grant applications to determine awardees.
- FYE 2023 Charge! Program Rank List
- FYE 2023 Charge! Program Guidance
- Grantee Portal
- Application User Guide
- Sample FYE 2023 Charge Program Documents
- Sample FYE 2023 Charge Application in Fluxx
- Questions and Answers
- 2023 Charge! Program Webinar Presentation
- 2023 Charge! Program Webinar Recording
- Design Recommendations for Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
FYE 2022 Charge! Program
The Air District’s FYE 2022 Charge! Program is closed. The FYE 2022 Charge! Program was a competitive solicitation, and the Air District reviewed, scored, and ranked all grant applications to determine awardees.
Reports
- All reports are being accepted through the Fluxx Grants Management System. If you’re an existing grantee, please contact charge@baaqmd.gov to request your account login information.
Did you know that you may qualify for Low Carbon Fuel Standard, or LCFS, credits to help offset the cost of operating the charging stations? For more information, please visit the California Air Resources Board LCFS Electricity and Hydrogen Provisions web page.
Charge Program Signup
Last Updated: 12/8/2022