Electric Vehicle Charging Station Comes To Glen Cove

Glen Cove recently secured state funding that brought an electric vehicle charging station to the City.

The charging station will be located on the first floor of the Pulaski Garage behind City Hall. The station was unveiled on Nov. 21.

The City installed the station to meet the needs to residents who are part of the rapid expansion of the electric vehicle market.

“The City of Glen Cove is excited to be able to provide this new service, free of charge to our community,” Glen Cove Mayor Reggie Spinello said in a press release. “As Glen Cove is a City on the grow, we welcome new opportunities like our new Electric Vehicle Charging Station to promote a cleaner and greener Glen Cove.”

The Glen Cove Community Development Agency (CDA) and the Department of Public Works (DPW) collaborated to secure funding from a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation grant.

At the unveiling, members of the CDA and DPW teams along with Ron Gulmi of Alternative Energy Solutions (a Green Power Technology Channel Partner) and Eric Dobrin, a downtown business professional and an electric vehicle owner, were present.

The installation of the City’s electric vehicle charge station is the third of four High Impact Action items that ned to be completed for Glen Cove to become a NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) Certified Clean Energy Community.

The first was the benchmarking of the energy use in all City facilities, the second was the City’s unified solar permit process and the final step is a code enforcement training initiative with the Building Department. Once that final step is completed, the City will submit its accomplishments for certification review.

Photo credit: Tony Gallego, Gill Associates (L to R): Noelle Diehl, former CDA team member; Ann Fangmann, executive director of the Glen Cove CDA, DPW’s Stephanie Soter ,Nicolas Shearman/CDA, Mayor Reggie Spinello, Ron Gulmi of Alternative Energy Solutions and Eric Dobrin, a downtown business professional who received the ceremonial charge for his Chevy Volt. Missing from photo, DPW’s Vincent Martinez Jr.