SFEI secured a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality District to partially fund SFEI’s installation of a set of three Solar Powered Electric Car Charging stations at the front of our offices.  These stations can charge up to four cars at a time. They will serve staff and future visitors to SFEI.

Each charger is capable of delivering power at a rate of 6.6kW.  The charge for this service is 16 cents per kWh, just below the cost for Tier 1 residential usage.

Coupled with this convenience is now a new rooftop solar array, helping to power not only our EV chargers, but also the servers in our local data center, and other equipment within our building.  SunWork and their volunteers helped SFEI to install these panels.

By powering cars using the sun, SFEI hopes to promote sustainability, consistent with our organizational values in science, resilience, and innovation.