FOTW #1211, November 8, 2021: Energy Zones Mapping Tool Now Allows for Locating New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Equity Considerations
Posted by Clean Fuels Intern on Nov. 11, 2021 / EERE Fact of the Week / Subscribe 0
Vehicle Technology Office
Fact of the Week #1211
Originally posted by the US Department of Energy's Vehicle Technology Office on November 8, 2022
Argonne National Laboratory has expanded the Energy Zones Mapping Tool (EZMT) to support electric vehicle service equipment planning with an emphasis on equity. Those wanting to plan for new EVSE can use the EZMT to look at criteria such as:
- Density of existing EVSE stations
- Proximity to designated alternative fuel corridor
- Annual average vehicle traffic
- Distance to mass-transit hubs
- Household transportation energy burden
- Percent low-income
- Percent minority
- Population density.
EZMT users can generate “heat maps” showing areas that meet combinations of 110 individual criteria. Most criteria are available for the contiguous 48 states and results are generated at a 250-meter level of detail.
Note: The Energy Zones Mapping Tool was developed through a collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity.
Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity, Energy Zones Mapping Tool
0 Comments