Business Park installs free plug-in charging stations for EV's

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http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/122360764.html


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Wisconsin now has 17 charging stations, including nine in the Madison area. The network is starting to expand even as the state awaits for plug-in cars like the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf to go on sale here.

The Madison effort, launched by the electric and natural gas utility Madison Gas & Electric and funded in part by the federal stimulus package, is aimed to provide charging stations around Madison that will be used to monitor how its customers’ energy habits and how electrification of vehicles will affect the power grid.

“We are already putting a public network of charging stations at 24 test points throughout our community, to learn about this technology,” said Gary Wolter, chairman of MGE Energy Inc., MG&E’s parent company, during the company’s annual shareholders meeting this week in Middleton.


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