Option 2: EV Capacity per Station

Richard Manning

RWDI USA LLC

LEEDuser Premium Member

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February 13, 2013

The LEED Credit Form asks for the capacity per charging station. I understand that a Level 2 EVSE provides a full charge in the range of 5 to 8 hours, is the LEED Credit Form asking for the full charge or something else? Our project is located in a mall so we could make some assumptions about the average shoppers charging/shopping time to determine the capacity per station if LEED is not requiring a full charge. Since retails are often open longer than 8 hours, could we make further assumptions about the number total station capacity.

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

LEEDuser Expert

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Mon, 12/23/2013 - 20:54

I think the safest assumption to make is to provide capacity in terms of the number of full charges that you can deliver while the retail space is open. Let's take an extreme example and say that you assumed shoppers only stay for 30 minutes, and the store is open for 8 hours. Then your capacity could be stated as serving 16 vehicles per day, but that doesn't really seem to fit the intent.There may be a middle ground where you make some more reasonable assumptions—I think it would be up to you to make as strong a case as possible.