The Southern California Electric Vehicle Ready project is a collaboration between local government agencies, universities, destination sites, and local utilities to install 321 Level 2 chargers (two more chargers than required by the grant) at workplaces, destinations, and other sites for increasing public charging infrastructure in the greater Los Angeles/Southern California region. In January 2010, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power submitted an Electric Vehicle Ready Southern California proposal in response to CEC-PON-09-006 to install over 1,200 Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations at a cost of $3.1 million. This proposal was submitted on behalf of the Southern California Regional Collaborative whose members included Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, County of Los Angeles, South Coast Air Quality Management District, and several California State University and University of California campuses. In January 2011, the California Energy Commission awarded Los Angeles Department of Water and Power with a reduced grant of $840,750 to install 319 Level 2 chargers. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power then transferred administration of the grant to South Coast Air Quality Management District to administer in September 2011 and a revenue agreement between California Energy Commission and South Coast Air Quality Management District was executed in March 2012. Some of the original Southern California Electric Vehicle Ready Project partners dropped out of the project so memorandum of agreement for entities to host Level 2 chargers were executed with installers such as Adopt A Charger and Clean Fuel Connection and new site hosts such as the Cities of Burbank, Covina and Lake Elsinore; destinations/workplaces such as the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, California State Parks, Disneyland, Getty Center/Villa, Huntington Hospital, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Zoo, Pasadena Art Center and Pomona College. All of the installations were completed by April 2016. In general, the chargers are highly utilized and have often sparked additional electric vehicle charger installations at these sites.
