Case study · Hartford, Connecticut
We found $280,000 in a set of garage drawings.
Nothing was added. The same 28 chargers, distributed differently — and a utility rebate program that recognized seven sites where the drawings showed one.
A new nine-story parking garage was going up at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. The drawings called for 28 EV charging stations, all of them on the first three floors.
That design was correct. It met Connecticut's EV-readiness requirements, the electrical contractor had priced it, and nobody had made a mistake.
But compliance and rebate eligibility are two different questions, and they have two different answers. Under Eversource Connecticut's Make-Ready Infrastructure Rebate Program, three floors of chargers read as a single project site. The garage had six more floors with no EV scope at all.
The opening
One project site, or seven
As drawn — 1 site
- Floor 3Chargers
- Floor 2Chargers
- Floor 1Chargers
- Floors 4–9No EV scope
28 chargers concentrated on three floors. The program sees one site.
As proposed — 7 sites
- Floor 7Site 7
- Floor 6Site 6
- Floor 5Site 5
- Floor 4Site 4
- Floor 3Site 3
- Floor 2Site 2
- Floor 1Site 1
The same 28 chargers spread across seven floors. Each floor can stand alone.
EVKON read the drawings against the rebate program rather than against the code book, and proposed spreading the same 28 chargers across seven floors.
Each participating floor could then potentially qualify as an independent project site. No extra hardware. No change to what the customer received.
Having the idea was not the hard part. EVKON prepared and submitted the proposal, asking Eversource to recognize the seven participating floors as seven separate project sites.
Eversource approved the approach.
The project team then isolated the EV infrastructure costs tied to each site to support eligibility, and EVKON specified EVSE hardware and software meeting both the program requirements and Connecticut state code.
That approval is what turned an observation into roughly $280,000 of avoided EV infrastructure cost — found in a document everyone had already read.
Who did what
The contractor kept the customer
BFZ Electrical Corp.
Held the customer relationship and performed the electrical installation. Their scope, their client, their job.
Everything the rebate program touched
Working behind BFZ's estimating and project teams, never in front of them:
- Isolated the EV infrastructure costs for each of the seven sites
- Sourced and supplied the EVSE hardware and software
- Confirmed compliance with program rules and Connecticut state code
- Carried the Eversource submission and the follow-up
BFZ's scope stayed BFZ's scope.
EVKON also coordinated with Connecticut Children's Medical Center, LAZ Parking, LPRI, InnoConn and Walker Consultants.
What the project ended up with
Four outcomes, one unchanged design
In EV infrastructure cost, found in the drawings rather than negotiated.
Exactly as originally intended. The charger count never changed.
Recognized under the Eversource Make-Ready program.
Meeting Connecticut EV infrastructure requirements, and built for expansion.
Send us the drawings before they are final.
The opening on this project was in the design. It was only worth anything because someone read it against the program in time.