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Portsmouth Charges Their Way to Lower Emissions

As the interest in sustainable transportation options, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s Portsmouth Paducah Project Office recently seized the opportunity to provide Pike County with their first publicly available electric vehicle charging stations.

Installed by North Wind Dynamics in the heart of Piketon, Ohio, the stations are a pivotal step toward the adoption of electric vehicles in their area of Ohio. The stations, installed in a renovated and repurposed former school, provide Pike County with a reliable, accessible location to charge four electric vehicles concurrently. The funding for the electric vehicle charging stations came from DOE grant funding, received as part of the Green Fleet Award.

“The location of a former school that had been renovated to create The Square at Piketon links the past of the community to the future,” said Damon Detillion, North Wind Dynamic’s project manager, referring to a multiuse development in the village. “This project emphasizes the importance of infrastructure in the adoption of new technologies and puts Piketon on the charging station map.”

You can read the rest of the story on the Office of Environmental Management’s site here.

An electric vehicle uses a new charging station at The Square at Piketon. The first publicly available electric vehicle charging station in Pike County, Ohio, is available at this renovated schoolhouse that also houses the Portsmouth Site’s Joint Information Center.