A developer of the load infrastructure for electric vehicles who offers a zero-emission truck stop in West National City hopes to respond to public concerns about security, in particular the risk of fire, at a next meeting.
Skychargers, LLC (Skycharger) planned a community meeting Thursday from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the National City Aquatic Center in Pepper Park. Participants will have the opportunity to receive project updates and a safety briefing, offer comments and make an electric truck.
“We look forward to listening, sharing information and answering security questions and what this clean energy project means for National City,” said Andy Karetsky, president of SkyCharger, in a statement.
Skyload seeks to build and operate a load of electric van on a 5 -acres plot at 19th Street and Tidelands Avenue, next to the marine terminal of the national city, which belongs to the port of San Diego. The “EHUB” would offer load ports for 70 medium to robust electric trucks. The ports would be partially fed by 1.75 solar megawatts with a battery system up to 2.5 megawatts.
The plans also consist of adding a toilet installation and a Just Walk Out store, one of the new Amazon cashier convenience stores who automatically charge customers via their Amazon accounts without the need to check.
Earlier last year, Skycharger started negotiations with the port of San Diego to develop the truck stop. The proposal is currently under environmental examination, which the port commissioners must approve as well as conditions for a 20 -year lease and a coastal development permit before any construction can take place. Skycharger also develops a “Trying before buying” program to help truck drivers go from diesel to cleaner vehicles.
The EHUB aims to support the Port Maritime Maritime Air Strategy, which includes objectives such as achievement of zero emission truck trips by the end of 2030.
According to Skycharger, the EHUB will reduce the harmful diesel emissions near the communities of the national city which have always been among the most affected by port operations.
The planned discounts of toxic emissions, the developer added, during the 20 -year rental period, there are more than 825,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 192,400 petrol cars driven for a year or 2 natural gas electric power plants in one year, depending on the greenhouse gas equivalences of the environment of the environment.
Joann Fields, a local defender of the Asian communities of the American Pacific, said that several residents had expressed their concern that the project would bring more truck trips to a region already affected by industrial pollution and has a risk of fire associated with lithium-ion batteries. She encourages the public to attend the meeting on Thursday to learn more about planning the developer’s fire risks.
John Friedrich, director of development of Skycharger, said that the project will be on an existing truck pathway, and added that the chances that a fire broke out “is very low”. Lithium-ion battery fires have become more frequent in recent years, including in battery storage facilities in parts of the County of San Diego, which can generate hundreds of megawatts.
Some of these installations, the main work of which is energy storage, “are much more important” than the EHUB proposed, said Friedrich.
“Here, the main objective is to provide a load to clean electric trucks to replace diesel trucks and batteries are set up as a resilience measure to help store clean energy from the solar network,” he said. Heads of the national city fires, he added, will present their security protocols at the meeting.
Pepper Park is located at 3300 Pepper Park Pl. Translations in Spanish and Tagalog will be available at the meeting. Those interested in attending are encouraged at RSVP here.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
