Governor Kathy Hochul last week announced that the State Public Service Commission approved New York’s investor-owned utilities, electric vehicle active and passive-managed to charge programs, a key element in further developing New York’s electric vehicle infrastructure. The PSC decision is an integral part of the initiative known as the EV Make-Ready program which directed the utilities to develop managed charging programs that will provide customers with an alternative to the whole home Time-of-Use rates that are already in place. Managed charging programs and TOU rates incentivize charging at the most beneficial times for the grid, which has the potential to extend the estimated societal benefits of EV deployments to more than $5 billion through 2030.
