Site Assessment & Feasibility Studies

If you’re a property owner or potential charging partner in the early stages of planning — or just wondering whether EV charging makes sense for your site — this is where every good project starts. Before equipment is specified or a trench is priced, the site and the numbers both have to say yes.

What we evaluate

• Electrical capacity — existing service, panel headroom, and what charger classes fit without a new utility service
• Parking & access layout — stall selection, ADA-compliant stall and access-aisle planning, bollard and signage scope
• Utility service options — where new capacity would come from, and the realistic cost and lead-time picture from your utility
• Payback & ROI analysis — led by our CFO’s financial practice: session-volume break-even modeling, utility rate strategy, and incentive screening, so the investment case is as engineered as the electrical design

How the assessment runs

We start with a site walk — service equipment, panel and switchgear nameplate data, parking geometry, and where new utility service could physically land if the site needs it. In parallel we send a utility data request: account and interval data from Evergy or Ameren, plus any one-line drawings on file, so the load analysis runs on real numbers.

From there we run load screening — how much charging load the existing service can absorb, and what charger class, Level 2 or DC fast, fits within that headroom — then develop layout options: stall count, ADA-compliant access aisles, and equipment placement relative to the panel or a proposed transformer pad.

Jared Anderson, CPA — our CFO, ranked among Missouri’s top-25 CFOs in 2023 — builds the financial model on the same site-specific numbers: session-volume break-even, rate strategy, and incentive screening. One deliverable, an engineer’s site plan and a CFO’s proforma together, not two documents that don’t talk to each other.

Evergy and Ameren: the questions we answer first

Missouri and Kansas EV charging economics run through two utilities with two different rate structures. Every assessment in Evergy or Ameren territory works through the same questions before design starts:

• Which jurisdiction you’re in. Evergy has four — Missouri Metro, Missouri West, Kansas Metro, Kansas Central — each with its own demand interval, 30 or 15 minutes depending on jurisdiction and rate.
• Whether the site qualifies for Schedule BEVCS. Evergy’s Business EV Charging Service trades the per-kW demand charge for a lower facilities charge plus a time-of-use energy rate — but the site must be separately metered, with ancillary load capped around 5 kW.
• What a standard demand-charge rate costs instead. Ameren Missouri has no EV-specific rate: a DC fast charging site lands on Rate 3(M) Large General Service, 100 kW billing floor, no ratchet — exposure we model up front, not on the first bill.
• Transformer lead time. Distribution transformer procurement, not permitting, is the binding constraint on most DC fast charging schedules industry-wide. We flag it early, not after design is committed.
• Who pays for what. Evergy provides distribution upgrades, primary conductors, transformer, CTs, and meter; the customer provides secondary conduit, cable, and, on a three-phase pad, the pad and grounding electrode — plus a contribution in aid of construction if estimated cost outruns added-load revenue.
• Rebate pre-approval timing. Evergy’s Commercial EV Charger Rebate must be pre-approved before the project starts, is available in Missouri only to BEVCS customers, and carries a five-year ownership commitment. Miss pre-approval and the rebate is off the table regardless of what gets built.

We check rate schedules and program terms against the current tariff before they drive a proposal; figures above are as published mid-2026.

What you get

The deliverable is a decision-ready report, not a slide deck. It includes:

• Electrical capacity findings — existing service, panel headroom, charger classes that fit without a new utility service
• Parking and ADA layout options, with stall counts and access-aisle geometry
• The utility path — jurisdiction, rate schedule, cost split, and a realistic lead time
• A financial model — break-even, rate strategy, and incentive screening — built by our CFO
• A clear go/no-go recommendation, so you know before you spend on design whether the site pencils

From concept to constructable

EVre’s experience drives an initial concept into a real, constructable design — helping owners navigate approvals and right-size the infrastructure to their specific site. Fit-for-purpose is the discipline: correctly scaled projects that benefit the property owner and every stakeholder. We’re not selling Ferraris when a Ford does the job just fine. On a recent multi-site campus program, this screening step is what separated the sites worth building now from the lots where construction costs would never pay back — before any capital was committed.

Who this is for

Property owners deciding whether to add charging to a lot they already operate. Campuses and municipalities planning charging as part of a larger capital program, where sites have to be ranked against each other, not approved one at a time. Contractors pricing a bid who need a PE-reviewed load and layout to quote against instead of a guess. In every case: an engineer’s answer and a CFO’s answer, before capital moves. Start a project.