ChargeMyTenants

I'm in Oregon, not California, but every multifamily EV conversation I have eventually references whatever CPUC just did, because the rest of the West Coast tends to follow a year or two behind. The utility cost-recovery mechanism KilowattKarl flagged is the part I'd actually want copied here before anything else in this rule. We're three bids deep into adding L2 for a 12-unit building and every single quote has the same problem: whoever installs it eats the full capital cost up front with no clear path to recover it through anything but raising rent, which nobody wants to be the landlord doing for an "EV amenity fee." A rate-case mechanism that spreads retrofit cost across ratepayers instead of dumping it on whoever happens to own the building is the kind of policy detail that actually changes whether multi-unit charging gets built, not just whether it gets mandated.

This sequence is clean for a single-family home. It falls apart fast in a multi-unit building, which is the gap I keep hitting. You can't stage a load calculation per-unit when the whole building shares one service, and getting agreement from unrelated owners on the order of operations is its own project before the electrical work even starts. Would love to see someone write the multi-unit version of this guide.