An Enfield manufacturer said it will sell its electric-vehicle chargers through a Boston-based company that has over 400 municipal and nonprofit energy customers throughout southern New England.
EVSE LLC hopes to expand its charger business by offering discounted units to customers of PowerOptions, which was founded in Boston 20 years ago and more recently opened an office in Rocky Hill.
“As more and more organizations are making the move to electrify their fleets and meet their constituents EV needs, we are here to provide solutions that help them achieve their goals,” EVSE sales director Daniel Shanahan said in a statement.
Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. PowerOptions said it selected EVSE, along with a Kansas-based charger maker, through an RFP process. A total of eight companies submitted bids, PowerOptions said.
EVSE said more than 2,000 of its chargers have been installed since 2009, including some at UConn and Yale.
The company is owned by Control Module Inc. The two have a combined 50 employees at Control Module’s 44,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Enfield’s 89 Phoenix Ave.
In addition to its charger business, Control Module also makes terminals help manage fuel use for car dealerships and fleets, as well as employee time-clock software and products.
PowerOptions leverages the buying power of its municipal and nonprofit members to negotiate energy contracts with suppliers. It’s added a few Connecticut nonprofits to its membership rolls in recent years, and reports annual energy sales worth between $160 million and $200 million.
For the past several years, PowerOptions has lobbied Connecticut lawmakers unsuccessfully to ease the state’s procurement rules to allow municipalities to avoid having to conduct their own formal solicitations to buy energy.
The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities has argued that the change is unnecessary.
