The County of Sonoma General Services Department solicited a grant from the California Energy Commission to expand the number of electric vehicle charging stations in Sonoma County. The grant application listed eight locations in section 2.1 of the grant application. The construction work occurred primarily in 2016. This report describes the installation of new electric vehicle charging stations and renovation of existing locations, schedules, costs and outcomes of the expansion. The expansion provided benchmarks for project and construction costs, time durations for the projects, obstacles and recommendations for future expansions.
The work funded by the grant is divided into two groups, new construction creating electric vehicle charging stations, and renovations of existing electric vehicle charging stations.
The County of Sonoma pursued a third new location with the remaining grant and matching funds. This site was located at the County’s building department, Permit and Resource Management Department site which experiences significant public use on a daily basis. The remaining grant funding was not sufficient to fund the project and construction resulting in cancellation of the third location project.
The three new locations are:
Cloverdale Veterans Hall, 205 West First Street, Cloverdale California
Guerneville Veterans Hall, 16255 First Street, Guerneville, California
County of Sonoma “Permit and Resource Management Department”, 2550 Ventura Avenue, Santa Rosa, California (Cancelled 2018)
The five renovated locations are:
La Plaza A and B office buildings, north parking lot, 2300 County Center Drive, Santa Rosa California
Santa Rosa Veterans Hall, 1351 Maple Avenue, Santa Rosa, California
Doran Beach Regional Park, 201 Doran Beach Road, Bodega Bay, California
Sonoma County Airport, 2200 Airport Boulevard, Santa Rosa, California
County of Sonoma Administrative Center, 575 Administrative Drive, Santa Rosa, California (Site completed prior to grant award and did not use grant funding)
