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San Jacinto Unified School District – EV Charging Case Study: 124 Autel Chargers Across Six Fleet and Workplace Sites
Autel Energy and Epic Charging partnered with San Jacinto Unified School District (SJUSD) to deploy 124 Autel Level 2 charging ports across six fleet and workplace sites in Southern California, supported by the Southern California Edison (SCE) rebate program and managed centrally through the Epic Charging platform.
Introduction
School districts across California are under sustained pressure to electrify both their vehicle operations and the parking facilities used by staff, students' families and the broader community. Tightening emissions targets, the steady arrival of electric school buses and rising EV ownership among district employees are pushing public-sector organizations to act on EV charging infrastructure now, not in five years.
For a school district planning to scale across multiple campuses and operations sites, the question is rarely whether to install Level 2 chargers. It is how to deploy reliable, well-managed Autel chargers across many sites at once, and how to fund the project. Hardware choice matters. Software choice matters. And the funding pathway, often led by a utility rebate program, can determine whether the project moves forward at all.
San Jacinto Unified School District (SJUSD), located in Riverside County in Southern California, set out to solve all three at the same time.
For a school district planning to scale across multiple campuses and operations sites, the question is rarely whether to install Level 2 chargers. It is how to deploy reliable, well-managed Autel chargers across many sites at once, and how to fund the project. Hardware choice matters. Software choice matters. And the funding pathway, often led by a utility rebate program, can determine whether the project moves forward at all.
San Jacinto Unified School District (SJUSD), located in Riverside County in Southern California, set out to solve all three at the same time.
Background
San Jacinto Unified School District serves the city of San Jacinto, California, in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Like many K-12 districts within the Southern California Edison service territory, SJUSD operates a portfolio of facilities that includes school campuses, transportation yards and other district operations sites, each with its own parking footprint and charging needs.
As EV ownership grew among district staff and as the broader transition to electrified transportation accelerated, the absence of district-wide EV charging infrastructure became a clear gap. The challenge was scale. SJUSD did not need a handful of chargers at a single building. It needed coordinated Level 2 charging across multiple fleet and workplace locations, deployed under one operating model and managed centrally.
District leadership identified the Southern California Edison Charge Ready rebate program as a viable funding pathway to make a project of this size financially feasible. With SCE rebate support available to offset hardware and installation costs, SJUSD could move forward on a meaningful deployment scale, provided it could line up the right hardware and software partners to execute.
That set the stage for SJUSD's selection of Autel Energy as the EV charging hardware partner and Epic Charging as the charge point management software (CPMS) platform.
As EV ownership grew among district staff and as the broader transition to electrified transportation accelerated, the absence of district-wide EV charging infrastructure became a clear gap. The challenge was scale. SJUSD did not need a handful of chargers at a single building. It needed coordinated Level 2 charging across multiple fleet and workplace locations, deployed under one operating model and managed centrally.
District leadership identified the Southern California Edison Charge Ready rebate program as a viable funding pathway to make a project of this size financially feasible. With SCE rebate support available to offset hardware and installation costs, SJUSD could move forward on a meaningful deployment scale, provided it could line up the right hardware and software partners to execute.
That set the stage for SJUSD's selection of Autel Energy as the EV charging hardware partner and Epic Charging as the charge point management software (CPMS) platform.
Challenges
Multi-site EV charging deployments at the district level are operationally different from single-site projects, and the SJUSD program brought together several challenges in parallel.
First, a 124-port deployment across six different sites cannot be managed informally. Each individual location adds physical constraints, electrical capacity considerations and unique access patterns. The district needed a charging stack, both hardware and software, that could be configured once and replicated cleanly across all six sites without bespoke work at every step.
Second, the district had to serve two distinct user populations under one platform. Fleet operations have different access controls, scheduling logic and reporting requirements than workplace charging for staff and the surrounding community. Without a software platform that could handle both within a single dashboard, operational overhead would have made the program unmanageable over time.
Third, district-wide deployments live and die on visibility. Pricing changes, access permissions, charger uptime, alarms and daily session activity all need to be controlled centrally. Treating each site as a standalone install would have meant six different sources of truth, six different management workflows and six different points of failure.
Finally, the project had to satisfy the requirements of the Southern California Edison rebate program. That meant choosing approved Autel charging hardware and aligning the deployment design with the program's standards from day one.
First, a 124-port deployment across six different sites cannot be managed informally. Each individual location adds physical constraints, electrical capacity considerations and unique access patterns. The district needed a charging stack, both hardware and software, that could be configured once and replicated cleanly across all six sites without bespoke work at every step.
Second, the district had to serve two distinct user populations under one platform. Fleet operations have different access controls, scheduling logic and reporting requirements than workplace charging for staff and the surrounding community. Without a software platform that could handle both within a single dashboard, operational overhead would have made the program unmanageable over time.
Third, district-wide deployments live and die on visibility. Pricing changes, access permissions, charger uptime, alarms and daily session activity all need to be controlled centrally. Treating each site as a standalone install would have meant six different sources of truth, six different management workflows and six different points of failure.
Finally, the project had to satisfy the requirements of the Southern California Edison rebate program. That meant choosing approved Autel charging hardware and aligning the deployment design with the program's standards from day one.
Solution
After evaluating its options, SJUSD selected Autel Energy as its EV charging hardware partner and Epic Charging as its management software provider. The combined deployment delivered 124 Autel Level 2 charging ports across six fleet and workplace sites, supported by the Southern California Edison rebate program.
Autel chargers from the MaxiCharger commercial product family were selected for the deployment based on their reliability, durability and strong fit with both fleet and workplace use cases. Autel's commercial Level 2 chargers are designed for high-utilization environments, with the connectivity and OCPP compatibility needed to integrate cleanly into a multi-site management platform.
Paired with Epic Charging's CPMS, the Autel chargers operate as a single, coordinated network rather than as six standalone installations. SJUSD has one platform for monitoring uptime, configuring access, setting pricing and running daily operations across the entire deployment.
Centralized Control
Through the Epic Charging platform, SJUSD has district-wide control over the entire 124-port estate, including:
Funding via the SCE Rebate Program
The Southern California Edison rebate program supported the deployment by helping fund the charging infrastructure. For a public-sector deployment of this size, the rebate pathway was an essential component of the financial model and shaped key elements of the hardware and design selection from the start.
The result is a coordinated, multi-site EV charging system that operates as one platform rather than as six separately managed projects.
Autel chargers from the MaxiCharger commercial product family were selected for the deployment based on their reliability, durability and strong fit with both fleet and workplace use cases. Autel's commercial Level 2 chargers are designed for high-utilization environments, with the connectivity and OCPP compatibility needed to integrate cleanly into a multi-site management platform.
Paired with Epic Charging's CPMS, the Autel chargers operate as a single, coordinated network rather than as six standalone installations. SJUSD has one platform for monitoring uptime, configuring access, setting pricing and running daily operations across the entire deployment.
Centralized Control
Through the Epic Charging platform, SJUSD has district-wide control over the entire 124-port estate, including:
- Uptime monitoring across all six sites and 124 Autel charging ports
- Access management for fleet operators, district staff and approved community users
- Pricing configuration that can be tailored by site, by user group or by charging window
- Session-level reporting for operational reviews and rebate program compliance
- Day-to-day management of alerts, faults and user support
Funding via the SCE Rebate Program
The Southern California Edison rebate program supported the deployment by helping fund the charging infrastructure. For a public-sector deployment of this size, the rebate pathway was an essential component of the financial model and shaped key elements of the hardware and design selection from the start.
The result is a coordinated, multi-site EV charging system that operates as one platform rather than as six separately managed projects.
Impact
SJUSD now operates one of the larger district-led EV charging deployments in the Southern California Edison service territory, with 124 Autel Level 2 ports live across six fleet and workplace sites. The district can support its current EV-driving staff, its transportation operations and an expanding fleet electrification roadmap from a single, coordinated infrastructure base.
Centralized control through Epic Charging allows SJUSD to manage the entire portfolio from one interface rather than treating each site as an independent project. That translates into lower operational burden, faster issue response and clearer visibility into how the chargers are being used over time.
For the community served by SJUSD, the deployment also provides reliable workplace and visitor charging at multiple sites, expanding access to EV infrastructure across the district's footprint.
Centralized control through Epic Charging allows SJUSD to manage the entire portfolio from one interface rather than treating each site as an independent project. That translates into lower operational burden, faster issue response and clearer visibility into how the chargers are being used over time.
For the community served by SJUSD, the deployment also provides reliable workplace and visitor charging at multiple sites, expanding access to EV infrastructure across the district's footprint.
Key Highlights
- Scale124 Autel Level 2 charging ports deployed across six fleet and workplace sites within San Jacinto Unified School District.
- HardwareAutel MaxiCharger commercial Level 2 chargers, selected for reliability, durability and multi-use case fit across fleet and workplace deployments.
- SoftwareEpic Charging's CPMS, providing centralized management of uptime, access, pricing, sessions and reporting across all six sites.
- FundingSupported by the Southern California Edison rebate program, an essential funding pathway for a deployment of this size.
- Multi-Use ModelA single unified platform serving both fleet charging and workplace charging needs, including staff and community access.
- Operational VisibilityDistrict-wide control through one dashboard, replacing what would otherwise be six separately managed sites.
Conclusion
For school districts and other public-sector organizations planning multi-site EV charging deployments, success depends on more than hardware. It requires a clear funding pathway, software that can manage every site as part of a single system, and partners with the operational discipline to make deployment at scale work in real-world conditions.
San Jacinto Unified School District achieved that combination by partnering with Autel Energy for hardware, Epic Charging for management software and the Southern California Edison rebate program for funding support. The result is a 124-port, six-site Autel Level 2 charging deployment built for fleet operations and workplace charging, all managed centrally and serving district staff and the surrounding community alike.
If you are planning a multi-site EV charging deployment and want to understand how Autel chargers and Epic Charging's management platform can work together in real-world conditions, contact Epic Charging today.
San Jacinto Unified School District achieved that combination by partnering with Autel Energy for hardware, Epic Charging for management software and the Southern California Edison rebate program for funding support. The result is a 124-port, six-site Autel Level 2 charging deployment built for fleet operations and workplace charging, all managed centrally and serving district staff and the surrounding community alike.
If you are planning a multi-site EV charging deployment and want to understand how Autel chargers and Epic Charging's management platform can work together in real-world conditions, contact Epic Charging today.
