MN8 Energy announced a new tolling agreement with San Jose Clean Energy (SJCE) to design, build, own, and operate 40 direct-current fast-charging (DCFC) ports across five sites owned by the city.
MN8 will be responsible for all project costs and supporting operational performance; SJCE will retain control over branding and retail pricing. The agreement will create a predictable framework for both parties, with revenue being collected and reconciled against a fixed fee structure.
The tolling agreement, modeled after the way California utilities and Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) acquire power assets, eliminates complexities typically associated with acquiring EV charging infrastructure.
“This is EV charging procurement done the way the industry already knows how to work,” said Alan Dowdell, Head of Distributed Energy Solutions (DES) at MN8 Energy, in a statement. “We’ve built this model to work for any CCA looking to procure EV charging. San Jose is our first stop, we’re excited to continue building across the state.”
The deployment will total 8 megawatts (MW) of capacity throughout San Jose. 20 dual-port chargers will be built in neighborhoods with limited access to public EV charging infrastructure.
In July 2025, MN8 announced its Gateway to Hunts Point project, a first-of-its-kind freight EV charging hub in New York’s South Bronx, reflecting the company’s expertise in building EV charging infrastructure in underserved areas.
Construction is scheduled to commence in late 2026; the charging stations are expected to come online in early 2027.
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