CEC agenda proposes moving $11M Port of LA truck-charging grant to LACI, Exposition Park funds to Level 2

Two Southern California charging grants were up for change at the California Energy Commission's Oct. 19, 2026 business meeting. One proposed resolution would hand an $11,003,014 grant for public medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle charging and refueling infrastructure from Prologis Mobility LLC to the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI). A second would amend the Office of Exposition Park Management's agreement so that money budgeted for electric bus chargers, solar PV and battery storage instead goes to about 300 Level 2 ports for light-duty EVs in Exposition Park's parking structures.

Both appear on the commission's revised final agenda (TN 273107) as consent-calendar items, 3d for the grant transfer and 3c for Exposition Park. Both draw on Clean Transportation Program funds; the transferred grant also lists General Fund money. The resolutions in the backup packets carry blank vote tallies, so both remain proposed resolutions until the commission's adoption record is posted. None of the chargers involved is open.

A grant changes hands before any money moves

The larger item is a novation, a legal substitution of one grant recipient for another. According to the novation agreement and proposed resolution, Prologis Mobility and the CEC entered into grant ZVI-24-001 on Aug. 14, 2024, under which Prologis Mobility was to build charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles across two sites in Southern California. None of the grant has been paid out: the novation lists $0 paid to date. LACI would assume all of the grant's obligations, and the CEC would discharge Prologis Mobility from its obligations under the grant.

The proposed resolution would approve amendment 1 to the grant and ratify the novation. The commission contact is Magdulin Dwedari, the agreement manager. The grant amendment request form in the packet carries signature dates of Aug. 10 and Aug. 31, 2026.

The packet's California Environmental Quality Act section is where the location becomes specific: it describes the installation of publicly available electric vehicle charging infrastructure in an existing paved parking lot at the Port of Los Angeles. The grant's stated purpose remains medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle charging and refueling.

The grant amendment request lists these subcontractor budgets:

Subcontractor	Role (as listed)	Budget
To be determined	Construction and installation	$6,565,687
WSP USA	Engineering, procurement, construction and management	$1,311,967
ChargerHelp	—	$99,922
Breathe Southern California	—	$65,208
Momentum	—	$46,577

The largest line, construction and installation, has no named contractor yet. Breathe Southern California and ChargerHelp are also listed as key partners.

Exposition Park: from bus chargers and solar to Level 2

The second item amends agreement 600-23-010 with the Office of Exposition Park Management for work at Exposition State Park, a 160-acre state property in Los Angeles. The proposed resolution and contract amendment request describe a reallocation rather than new money: the budget augmentation is $0. All funds previously set aside for bus chargers, solar PV equipment and battery storage would move to the installation of approximately 300 Level 2 charging ports for light-duty EVs across the park's parking structures.

Amendment 1 would also revise the scope of work and change the agreement's terms to allow an advance payment. The park office is requesting $2,500,000 up front, which the packet describes as 50 percent of the agreement amount. The California Department of General Services is listed as a subcontractor at $5,000,000. The CEC agreement manager is Danny Leung.

Where the items sat on the agenda

The CEC event page lists the meeting for Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pacific time, in the first-floor auditorium of the California Natural Resources Building at 715 P Street in Sacramento, with remote access by Zoom. Under the agenda's rules, consent-calendar items are taken up and voted on as a group, though a commissioner may ask for an item to be moved and discussed later in the meeting.

The same consent calendar carried several other Los Angeles-area charging grants tied in part to transportation needs for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Among them was a separate proposed $2,932,412 grant to LACI (item 3q) for 32 DC fast-charging ports, 16 of them with vehicle-to-grid capability, at Los Angeles Unified School District's Newman Nutrition Center to serve zero-emission school buses.

For the Port of Los Angeles grant, the novation takes effect once Prologis Mobility, LACI and the CEC have all signed it, and from that date payments made under the grant count as made to LACI. For Exposition Park, adoption would allow the advance payment and the revised scope of work to take effect.

What It Means for Drivers

Truck and fleet operators near the Port of Los Angeles: the planned charging is publicly available and aimed at medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles. There is no site to plan routes around yet. Once the recipient change is final, LACI, not Prologis Mobility, is the party responsible for delivering the project.
Light-duty EV drivers visiting Exposition Park: the planned Level 2 ports inside the park's parking structures are meant for light-duty EVs, where the original agreement funded electric bus chargers.
Status check: both projects are funded plans, not places to charge. When the Exposition Park ports or the port-area chargers open, look for them in the AFDC station locator.
Confirming the vote: the Oct. 19 event page lists the Energy Commission Secretariat as the contact for orders and resolutions; that is where to confirm whether items 3c and 3d were adopted as proposed.