Vermont Clean Cities, Maine Clean Communities, and Granite State Clean Cities will provide coalition background information, discuss funding opportunities and available medium and heavy duty EV models, and introduce the panelists.
10:50 - 12:15pm: Presentations and Q&A
Development of Community Electrification Working Group
Jay Minkarah, Executive Director of the Nashua Regional Planning Commission in Southern New Hampshire, will speak about the development of a working group to explore the electrification of school buses. Learn from Jay’s experience with establishing the working group (invitees, discussion topics, obstacles and opportunities) to assemble a group in your own community!
City of Burlington: Fleet Purchasing Policy and Achieving Net Zero Energy Goals
Lee Perry, Director of Maintenance for the City of Burlington, will discuss experience establishing policies and actionable goals that are helping Burlington move towards electrifying transportation.
Pilot Proposal for Battery Storage in Maine
Aaron Smith, Prinicipal of Customer Programs & Products of Central Maine Power, will be presenting on a new pilot proposal to reduce peak demand charges for medium and heavy duty electric vehicles. The pilot solution will be for Maine's new hybrid electric ferry but they are exploring opportunities to solve demand charge challenges for a range of power users.
12:15 - 12:30pm: Wrap Up Discussion
Discuss next steps and topics that participants are interested in learning more about for upcoming webinars.
