Should Massport start charging for charging?
That question seemed to vex the port authority’s board at its monthly meeting on Thursday. Joel Barrera, Massport’s director of strategic and business planning, presented a proposal to end the free charging that Massport offers at its 66 electric-vehicle charging ports, most of them at Logan Airport.
He proposed charging 25 cents per kilowatt hour plus a connection fee of $2, starting Sept. 1, ostensibly to dissuade travelers from parking their EVs at a port, leaving them there for days, and preventing others from using it.
He said it’s about charger availability, not revenue: The change could raise some $60,000 a year, based on last year’s usage patterns — not even a rounding error for Massport, which reported $1 billion in operating revenues in the fiscal year that ended in June 2023. And he noted that state energy officials recommend that public agencies charge for access, and several already do. (In comparison, MassDOT charges 35 cents per kilowatt hour at its highway chargers.)
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