PORT ORCHARD —
The city of Port Orchard plans to install an electric vehicle charging station in the downtown area.
City officials hope to appeal to a growing market of Seattle-area electric car owners, who may be more apt to visit the town — and spend money — if they know they can get back at the end of the day.
Mayor Lary Coppola will meet in the coming month with representatives of Electric Transportation Engineering, or eTec, a company that is working with Nissan and the U.S. Department of Energy to install a network of charging stations across the nation by 2013. Nissan is involved because it is introducing a much-hyped electric car, the Leaf, in December.
Seattle is among a handful of test cities, most on the West Coast, chosen to initiate the EV (electric vehicle) Project. Electric Transportation Engineering received a $99.8 million stimulus grant to install the stations. About 2,200 to 2,300 of them will be in the Puget Sound area, said Linda Streissguth of Puget Sound Energy, which is working with Nissan and eTec to deploy the stations.
Port Orchard and PSE officials have to determine the suitability of a proposed city-owned site near the Port Orchard Marina and waterfront parking lot. The property has an underground vault with wiring that would support a charging station, said Coppola, a former electrician who is also a freelance writer for automotive industry publications.
“We see this as a cutting-edge opportunity for new economic development and a natural expansion of the city’s evolving green initiative I introduced at the beginning of this year,” Coppola said.
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