Charging stations key to sustainability — Ali Bram | Letters to the Editor

Madison Ald. Syed Abbas and the Metropolis Council are to be congratulated for a brand new ordinance requiring electric vehicle charging equipment in most new parking lots. This nice step ahead to attaining town’s sustainability objectives is particularly optimistic as a result of it incorporates residents in serving to obtain these objectives.

Electrical autos scale back air air pollution, so long as the vitality used within the charging stations will not be created by burning fossil fuels. So the realm’s new photo voltaic and wind farms can accomplice with charging stations.

Let’s hope that Madison will encourage metropolis councils in all municipalities to create such ordinances, particularly as they apply to builders who obtain tax increment financing. And whereas they’re at it, how about together with a stipulation requiring giant industrial buildings to put in photo voltaic panels on their giant roofs? Firms can use photo voltaic vitality manufacturing and electrical car charging stations as hiring incentives in addition to selling themselves as citizen-friendly neighbors.

Lastly, how about putting in electrical car charging stations at Wisconsin freeway waysides, or in small cities adjoining to main highways? Now there’s an amazing vacationer draw.