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Lansdale electric department to update fee schedule, plans modest fees for borough EV chargers
Summary
The electric committee will present an updated fee schedule to council in two weeks and expects to start modest charging for borough-owned EV stations; the department reported capital work on a new substation and several infrastructure upgrades.
The Lansdale electric committee said May 7 it will send an updated electric fee schedule — not updated since 2015 — to full council in two weeks and is preparing policy language for an EV ordinance that would allow the borough to apply modest fees to borough-owned electric vehicle chargers.
Councilman Andrew Carroll, who reported for the electric committee, said the fee schedule lists practical updates for metering testing, project work billed to residents and other charges. "The schedule, if you're not familiar, has not been updated since 2015," Carroll said. He said the updated fee schedule will be posted in the borough OneDrive for council review before the business meeting.
The committee described plans to return certain customer deposits (roughly $200–$300) as credits to customer accounts via direct deposit rather than issuing checks, with a target to begin in June. Carroll said the borough is aiming for reimbursements via customers' electric accounts to ease administration and reduce costs.
On electric vehicle infrastructure, Carroll said the borough will pursue an EV ordinance addressing charging behavior and rates and will propose a modest user fee for publicly owned chargers to recoup costs. "We are gonna be looking to start charging for our, borough owned electric vehicle charging. We're gonna be looking at doing a very modest rate for that," he said.
Carroll also reported capital activity: the Ninth Street pad for a new substation is complete; a tunnel feed connecting Walnut to Madison is finished; and payment number eight for the Main Street substation project — a capital-reserve project — will be presented, with the committee noting a payment round of $250,000 is expected. Carroll said the substation project has come in on time and, so far, on budget.
Committee members also discussed the timing of broader power-market price increases: Carroll said PPL and PECO are expected to seek roughly 20% increases effective June 1, which would widen savings for borough customers under the borough's current power deal with NextEra. The committee encouraged council to publicize the fee updates once posted and to review the OneDrive materials before the full-council meeting.
