Golden State Priority Project

• Be a site owner or their authorized agent (such as a property manager, EV service provider or contractor) with a Site Verification Form submitted at the time of application.
• Be a business, sole proprietorship, nonprofit organization, or a public or government entity, that is either based in California or operates as a California-based affiliate, or be a California Native American tribe listed with the Native American Heritage Commission
• Any threatened or actual legal action against the Applicant Organization cannot impact the completion or operation of the Proposed Installation or disbursement of the reserved rebate funds.

• Airports
• Business districts
• Casinos
• Charging Hubs
• City, county or privately owned parking lots or garages
• Colleges or universities
• Community centers
• Gas Stations
• Grocery Stores
• Hospitals
• Hotels
• Large-format retail
• Libraries
• Places of worship
• Police of sheriff stations
• Public transit hubs
• Restaurants
• Retail shopping Centers

• Site must be located in a DAC or LIC census tract, as defined by the California Climate Investments Priority Populations Map.
• Premises must be well-lit, secure and in compliance with all federal, state and municipal laws, ordinances, rules, codes, standards, and regulations.
• Sites must install a minimum of 4 GSPP-eligible charging ports and can receive a rebate for up to 20 GSPP-eligible charging ports.
• Chargers must be publicly available 24 hours per day, 365 days a year. Stand-alone parking lots or parking garages (i.e., those not dedicated to a particular business or property) are exempted from these requirements as long as the chargers remain accessible to the public for at least 18 hours a day, seven days a week, excluding holidays.
• To be considered publicly available, a charger must not be located behind a fence or in a gated parking lot, such that the general public is unable to access or is deterred from accessing.
• Chargers cannot have any time restrictions for availability to the public to be considered available 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.

All installations must be at existing structures or facilities and involve negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. Any installations not in compliance with this requirement will be ineligible for rebates.

Per CA Public Utilities Code 740.20, the installation of EV chargers must be completed by Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP) certified electricians.

• If the electric vehicle charging supports a charging port supplying 25 kW or more, at least 25% of the total electricians working on the crew, at all times during work hours, must hold EVITP certification.
• One member of each crew may be both the contractor and the EVITP-certified electrician.

• New, stub-out/make-ready or replacement
• DC fast chargers are eligible for replacement only if their power output is below 40 kW.
• Non-DC fast chargers are not eligible for replacement under the Golden State Priority Project.

All network providers must submit an intake form for CSE to review compliance with minimum requirements and begin the data sharing agreement process. All network providers must meet the following requirements to participate in the Golden State Priority Project:

• Provide networking services for EV charging stations.
• Be capable of processing payments through a toll-free number option and initiating a charging session remotely.
• Have a signed data-sharing agreement in place with CSE.
• Implement a mechanism to transfer the required data to CSE with a format and frequency that is acceptable to CSE and CEC.
• Be capable of obtaining and providing the charging session data identified in each network provider’s data sharing agreement using 15-minute intervals. At minimum, data fields should include:
• EVSE ID
• Port ID
• Port maximum kW
• Connection start/end date
• Connection start/end time
• Charge session start/end date
• Charge session start/end time
• Energy consumed
• Interval ID
• Interval peak demand
• Interval start/end date
• Interval start/end time
• Interval energy consumed
• Interval average demand
• Idle duration
• Downtime reason
• Downtime Event start/end date
• Downtime Event start/end time
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Find out how to verify your EV charging equipment for CALeVIP eligibility.

If your application is selected for funding, costs incurred after 6/16/2023 in the following categories are eligible to be covered by the rebates disbursed through this application window of the Golden State Priority Project:

NOTE: Beyond the rebated charging ports, additional charging ports and connectors may be installed on a site and will count toward the total project cost used to calculate the final rebate amount. However, the rebate cap will be determined based solely on the number of charging ports that meet eligibility requirements (i.e., the rebated charging ports).

Costs that are ineligible to be covered by rebates disbursed through this application window of GSPP may include, but are not limited to:

• Any costs incurred prior to 6/16/2023.
• Any project costs offset by other rebate programs or projects.
• Permits required by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).
• Stand-alone solar panels.
• Costs associated with developing an unpaved site.
• Costs associated with construction of new buildings or structures.

While costs are eligible starting 6/16/2023, construction cannot have started prior to the close of the application window.

Once approved for payment, an applicant with funding reserved in this GSPP application window is eligible to receive a rebate covering up to 50% of eligible project costs incurred by the applicant organization. Applicants may use funding from other incentive or grant programs to cover the remaining 50% of eligible project costs. However, the total amount of incentive funding obtained to cover the costs of the project may not exceed total eligible project costs.

Revenue obtained from the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is excluded from this limitation. However, the application form includes one or more questions to collect information on planned LCFS designation.

Scroll through this interactive timeline to view the application process step by step.

Once submitted, applications will be sorted into the following tiers, based on the documents uploaded for the Permit/Utility Service Design Application Package document slot:

Note:Construction cannot have started prior to the close of the application window.

All applicants will be required to provide the following documentation in the CALeVIP application portal for GSPP, at each documentation stage, before CSE can issue the final rebate payment. Note that this is the same application portal for all GSPP funding rounds but is a separate application portal from previous CALeVIP projects.

• Airport: Parking facilities at airports that serve the public are eligible sites. Long-term parking uses are not allowed.
• Application window: The time frame during which applicants are able to apply for rebate funding.
• Business district: An area within a community that has a high concentration of businesses and average dwell times of 30 minutes or less. The site must have a direct line of sight to the major road. This is typically the central area or commercial center of a town, city or unincorporated area, though many business districts may be present within these areas. Dealerships, office buildings and warehouses are not eligible under this site type.
• Casino: : A building where gambling games of chance against the house/casino are played. Stand-alone poker rooms or card halls are ineligible.
• Charging port: The number of DCFC connectors that can supply the rebated guaranteed output simultaneously.
• Charging hub: An existing paved site for which the primary purpose is to provide battery recharging services to electric vehicles.
• City/County/Privately-owned Parking Lot or Garage: A publicly or privately owned parking building or parking lot (i.e., parking is the primary use) that provides parking spaces to the public and is accessible at least 18 hours a day, seven days a week, excluding holidays. Workplace locations and long-term parking uses are not eligible. Pay-to-park is eligible.
• College/university: Must be an accredited, nonprofit two- or four-year college or university.
• Community Center: A facility owned and operated by a public agency or a non-profit community organization. The primary purpose of the facility must be for recreation, social welfare, community improvement, or public assembly.
• DC fast charger (DCFC): A DCFC is defined as the equipment that connects a vehicle to a site’s electrical service and can provide a power output at or above the minimum rebated power capacity without any operational limitations.
• Disadvantaged community (DAC): These communities are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution as identified in the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool CalEnviroScreen Version 4.0 developed by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Census tracts in the top 25% of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 scores, census tracts in the highest 5% of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 cumulative pollution burden scores, census tracts identified in the 2017 DAC designation as disadvantaged and lands under the control of federally recognized tribes are eligible for the project.
• Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP): Provides training and certification for electricians installing electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE).
• Energy Storage: Energy storage is a stationary storage application that can be defined as a smart energy management system that receives information from a battery management system. Generally, energy storage serves as a peak load-shaving strategy.
• Gas station: Any facility that, as its primary use, serves as a motor vehicle fueling service station retailing petroleum-based automotive fuels (e.g., gasoline, diesel, E10/E15) to the general public and has additional complementary customer store(s) or service(s) located on-site.
• Grocery store: A store that sells food and household supplies.
• Guaranteed output: The maximum power that can be provided per charging port when all charging ports are in use.
• Hospital: A facility that provides any medical services. This includes clinics, dental offices, urgent cares and any other facility providing medical services.
• Hotel: A hotel must meet two criteria:
• A permanent building for the primary purpose of short-term lodging.
• Provides dining, shopping or entertainment options available to the general public, OR is less than a quarter mile from another DCFC-eligible site.
• Large-format retail store: Large, free-standing, generally single-floor retail stores over 80,000 square feet offering a variety of products.
• Library: A place in which literary, musical, artistic or reference materials (such as books, manuscripts, recordings or films) are kept for use but not for sale.
• Light-duty fleet: Groups of motor vehicles owned or leased by a business, government agency or other organization rather than by an individual or family. Chargers may be public or private and must be shared use. Chargers must primarily serve light-duty vehicles but can serve medium- and heavy-duty vehicles as a secondary use. Primary use of chargers cannot be for medium- or heavy-duty vehicles.
• Light-duty vehicle: A vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500 pounds or less.
• Low-income community (LIC): For the purposes of the project, the census tracts that are either at or below 80% of the statewide median income, or at or below the threshold designated as low-income by the California Department of Housing and Community Development's (HCD) 2021 State Income Limits.
• Permit Application Package: The package submitted to the permitting agency as an application for a permit, including permit application, plan set and receipt for paid plan check fees (where applicable).
• Place of worship: A building used for the gathering of a religious or faith-based organization for spiritual purposes.
• Police/sheriff station: Police and sheriff stations include storefront police or sheriff substations that serve the surrounding community and adjacent areas. Police/sheriff station sites are still subject to public accessibility requirements and should not be primarily for fleet use.
• Public transit hub: Centers for public transit, including light rail stations, train stations and bus stations. Does not include park-and-ride lots.
• Restaurant: A business where meals and refreshments may be purchased.
• Retail shopping center: A group of retail and other commercial establishments that is planned, developed, owned and managed as a single property.
• Stub-out: Stub-out will include at least 2-inch minimum spare conduit run with pull rope that is sized, installed and located per the National Electrical Code for future installation of wiring supporting, at minimum, a 150-kW DCFC load.
• Total approved costs: The sum of the costs incurred by the rebate recipient that are eligible to be covered by the rebates issued through the first window of the Golden State Priority Project.
• Utility Service Design Application Package: The documents submitted to the utility as an application for utility service design, including service design application, plan set/electrical drawings and receipt for paid engineering advances (where applicable).