Batavia residents will soon have another option to charge their electric vehicles: a charging station set to open in November at the Batavia Public Library.
At the Batavia City Council meeting Monday, council members approved an agreement with the public library to have a charging station installed in the library’s parking lot.
The new charging station at the library will be a Level 3, or direct-current fast charging, which essentially provides more miles of range with a shorter charge time, according to the Alternative Fuels Data Center from the United States Department of Energy.
The city recently opened a Level 3 charging station at Batavia High School, City Administrator Laura Newman said at a past meeting. And they already have
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a Level 2 charging station in the west parking lot at City Hall.The city’s new charging stations are being funded with a state grant, according to past reporting. Both sites are set to have two chargers and a minimum of four ports.
The council also recently modified the city’s charging rates. Level 2 charging stations cost 25 cents per kilowatt-hour, while the new Level 3 charging stations cost 50 cents per kilowatt-hour. And they set a 30-minute grace period for customers moving their vehicles out of the charging spots, as well as a $1 per-minute overage fee for those who leave their cars in the spot beyond it reaching a full charge.
The station for which a site use agreement between the city and public library was approved Monday was originally slated for the parking lot on Shumway Avenue near Flinn Street, according to past reporting. But there were ultimately “too many conflicts with existing infrastructure to cost effectively install the chargers there,” per a memo from the city’s Electric Superintendent Steve Allen, so the city looked for a new location and landed on the library at 10 S. Batavia Ave. in downtown Batavia.
The new station is now set to go for approval by the Batavia Public Library Board this month, per the memo included with Monday’s City Council meeting agenda, and be completed in November.