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Del Aire CDC pitches solar-plus-battery EV charging hub as resilience center; council asks staff to negotiate details
Summary
Pastor John L. Jefferson asked council to sign an MOU allowing city vehicles to use three Level-3 chargers at a Del Aire community resilience hub; staff and council welcomed the model but requested follow-up on funding, what an MOU would commit the city to, and whether a letter of support might be more appropriate initially.
Pastor John L. Jefferson, CEO of the Del Aire Community Development Corporation, presented a Department of Energy and California Energy Commission-supported plan to build a resilience hub at a church campus that will include 250'to'300 kilowatts of solar, battery backups, and three Level-3 fast chargers. "We're going to be installing a 250 to 300 kilowatt system...and we will have battery backup systems with three level three charging and one level one charging system," Pastor Jefferson said, asking the council to consider a memorandum of understanding to allow city vehicles to use the site as an offsite charging location.
Councilmembers welcomed the community-centered resiliency functions (cooling/medical-device charging during outages) and praised the idea of a neighborhood microgrid, but staff raised questions about whether the city should commit to charging city fleet vehicles at an offsite location and about payment, auditing and operational details. Public works director Akbar Farroki said the city is planning EV chargers at Memorial Center and other facilities and that staff can meet with the DLACDC to determine how an MOU, letter of support or other collaboration could work.
Council directed staff to continue discussions with the Del Aire group and return with recommended next steps. No binding MOU was approved at the meeting.
