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Pomfret goes 'charger' in big way

By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
POMFRET — Hopefully by the end of the year the town will have 10 EV charging stations completed — all on state highways and all near places that draw people.
First Selectman Maureen Nicholson said the eight will be funded by a grant from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and from a “grant” from the VW emissions settlement.
A previous grant from the state covered the EV charging station at the Pomfret Town Hall, said Nicholson. However that station has been nonfunctioning for two, maybe three years.
Plans call for two fast-charging units at the Town Hall, two standard units at the Community Center, four units at Pomfret Community School and two at the library.
Nicholson said that the units at the Town Hall and the library will be slowed by the need for Eversource’s schedule to replace the pole that will supply the power to those units.
Currently bases are being installed for the units.
The cost of the 10 stations is $180,000 and that is “totally covered by the two grants,” according to Nicholson.
She said the town worked with Titan. A committee will set the kilowatt per hour rate.
Costs including software updates, etc. will need to be covered.
Nicholson said that there is an app that will tell anyone where the charging stations are and their rates. She expects the Pomfret units will be popular because they are alongside places that draw the public — library, town hall, school, Community Center. Air Line trail entrances are at the Community Center and at the town hall.
“It’ll be nice to have these units available on this side of the state,” she added.

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