PSE is committed to ensuring equitable access to the benefits of cleaner mobility. As a trusted utility, we’re uniquely positioned to support and enable market transformation for transportation electrification, address charging infrastructure gaps and manage associated loads.
PSE’s Transportation Electrification Plan is a strategic framework that will allow us to drive the transition to a cleaner energy future.
Electricity is the transportation fuel of the future
Currently, transportation accounts for 45 percent of the state’s emissions, and our most vulnerable neighbors bear a disproportionate amount of the health impacts from those emissions. Accelerating transportation electrification is not only vital to achieving the state’s carbon reduction goals and PSE’s aspiration to reach beyond net zero carbon emissions, but also creating a more equitable clean energy future.
We believe electricity is the transportation fuel of the future. In 2021, electric vehicles accounted for nearly 8 percent of new car sales in Washington state. That percentage should increase as the state plans to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
PSE’s Transportation Electrification Plan is a strategic framework that will allow us to drive the transition to a cleaner energy future.
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PSE’s Transportation Electrification Plan is a strategic framework for launching new electric mobility programs under PSE Up & Go Electric in the coming years across two phases.
Phase 1 – 2023
- Up & Go Electric for Fleet: Empowering businesses, municipalities, government agencies, tribal entities and community-based service providers and organizations with electrifying their fleets. Learn more >>
- Up & Go Electric for Multifamily: Supporting charging installations at multifamily properties to meet the needs of site hosts and tenants. Learn more >>
- Load Management Pilots: Integrating load management strategies to encourage EV charging at optimal times of day as part of our commitment to a resilient and modern grid.
- Education & Outreach: Supporting EV adoption and wider transportation electrification through tactics that underscore customer benefits with reliable and accurate information.
Phase 2 – 2024
- Up & Go Electric Home Charging: Helping customers in single-family homes upgrade their at-home charging via instant PSE rebates on qualifying Level 2 chargers. Learn more >>
- Up & Go Electric for Public: Removing the barriers that keep property owners, businesses and communities from hosting public charging stations for all EV drivers. Learn more >>
- Up & Go Electric for Workplace: Supporting charging installations at workplaces to meet the needs of employees. Learn more >>
- New & Innovative Technology Pilots
PSE Up & Go Electric program goals:
Enable market transformation
Plan and manage electric loads
Address charging infrastructure gaps
Further energy equity and inclusion
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Equity is a centerpiece of PSE’s efforts to advance cleaner mobility. We’re focused on ensuring all our customers can participate in and benefit from transportation electrification by removing barriers to adoption.
All programs created under the Transportation Electrification Plan will include funding for equity-focused projects for highly impacted communities and vulnerable populations and the community-based organizations, government agencies and tribal entities that serve them.
Community engagement
To ensure the best outcomes for our customers, we’re giving our communities a seat at the design table. PSE is engaging with residents, community-based organizations, municipalities, government agencies and tribal entities to better understand the barriers they may face in accessing transportation electrification and help remove those barriers and maximize their desired benefits.
This feedback directly informs how we’re designing our cleaner mobility programs to help remove those barriers. Download our community engagement reports below.
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In 2019, PSE launched six transportation electrification pilot programs. The goal was to help us understand the impacts of electric vehicle charging and our customers’ transportation needs in order to develop programs and offerings for these customers in the coming years.
Education & Outreach
Informed our customers on electric vehicle ownership and charging to make it as easy as possible to go electric.
Workplace Charging Installed Level 2 chargers at 40 workplaces in our service area so our customers can charge where they work.
Public Charging
Bringing Level 2 and DC fast charging to eight locations throughout our service area so our customers can charge on the go.
Residential Charging
Installed Level 2 chargers in 500 homes to understand the charging needs and patterns of our customers.
Multifamily Charging Installed Level 2 chargers at 35 multifamily properties in our service area so our customers can charge where they live.
Equity Focused
Undertook projects to ensure everyone can benefit from electric mobility by helping provide EVs and chargers to community-based service providers.
