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AEMC backs plan to spread public EV charger costs
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The Australian Energy Market Commission gave preliminary support to a proposal allowing electricity networks to recover the cost of some public EV charging infrastructure from all electricity customers, including those without EVs.
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The Australian Energy Market Commission gave preliminary approval to a plan allowing electricity networks to spread public EV charger costs across all customers.
“The Australian Energy Market Commission has given preliminary approval to a plan that would allow electricity networks to spread the cost of public EV charging infrastructure across all customers.”
Electricity customers would pay for the covered charging infrastructure regardless of whether they own an electric vehicle.
“consumers, who would have to pay regardless of whether they own an EV”
The proposal applies to customers across Australia’s National Electricity Market.
“The determination would affect customers across the national electricity market”