Utility companies to enter electric-car charging market?

Battery & Chargers
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This article covers some very interesting news for the EV charging market:-

Peninsula legislators seek to lift ban on utilities owning electric-car charging stations | Peninsula | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner

Could this be a game changer?

Regards,

Mark

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Interesting. A HALF BILLION DOLLARS. This is money sourced from the utility company rate payers. Utility users have little control over what they pay because they don’t have a choice of providers.

IMHO this puts a private company at a disadvantage because they have to remain competitive with other companies competing for the consumers business.

On the other side of the coin a utility company has the advantage of built in resources and can provide standardized packages at a lower per unit cost than a private company.

Will be interesting to see hqw it shakes out.

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Interesting comments. In practice the utility companies would be “missing out the middleman”, i.e. themselves, so they could in theory dominate the market?