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Drive Electric Maine Quarterly Meeting: December 9th, 3 - 5 pm 

Recording of DEM Meeting:

The first 20 minutes didn't record, so what isn’t included in the video are the MCC program updates and the Clean Transportation Roadmap update.

Recorded DEM Quarterly Meeting Link

Maine Clean Communities Program Updates:

• MCC will be signing onto Drive Electric USA – joining 18 other coalitions across the country.

• MCC has recently joined conversations with Scarborough’s Sustainability Committee to help develop a new EV ordinance.

• The EV Readiness Assessment toolkit developed in collaboration with Karina Graeter, Sustainability Coordinator at SMPDC is being finalized.

• MCC recently partnered with Vinalhaven, ME to get an EV school bus for their island community. We’re looking forward to sharing more about this as it develops further!

• We’re preparing an end-of-year stakeholder survey to help gauge how MCC can best serve and support its stakeholders.

• MCC was part of a group of clean city coalitions awarded funding from the DOE to take place in a workplace charging program called “EMPOWER” starting in the spring of 2022.

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Stakeholder Program Updates:

• We heard a brief update from Rylee with E2tech on the status of the Clean Transportation Roadmap – Set to wrap up by the end of December and will hopefully be used as a guiding document moving forward. More information will be shared with everyone once the CTR document has been finalized and released.

• Thanks to Aaron Smith & Jason Rauch with CMP for their updates on the new L2 Make-Ready Pilot and Rate Design B-DCFC Pilot programs to help expand our state's EVCS network.

  • Aaron – “Please feel free to review and comment on CMP’s filings on rate design and Make Ready Vehicle Rate-Design”, Docket No. 2021-00198 and Docket No. 2019-00217. https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/CaseMaster.aspx?CaseNumber=2021-00198

  • https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/MatterManagement/MatterFilingItem.aspx?FilingSeq=112623&CaseNumber=2021-00198

• Molly with Efficiency Maine shared an awesome and informative video on the benefits of EVs, the priority locations for new DCFC in 2022, and a level 2 charging grant for Multi-Unit Dwellings (MUD) – applications due January 20th, 2022. The videos can be viewed here and the L2 charging grant RFP and application here.

• Peter Chipman – Policy Director for Plug-In America (pchipman@pluginamerica.org). There’s a lot of information shared. It starts around the 27-minute mark on the attached recording.

  • FHWA RFI on charging infrastructure deployment, January 28th deadline:https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-11-29/pdf/2021-25868.pdf

  • USDOT 2022-2026 Strategic Plan , RFC, December 17th deadlinehttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-11-29/pdf/2021-25868.pdf

  • www.REALevchange.org

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