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A DC fast charging site is a heavy-capital, megawatt-scale bet. The L3 report prices that bet: utilization projected from our own databases, grid capacity screened, and every report reviewed by a person before it reaches you.

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Site Qualificationretail pad · example

Marketplace Dr

Centennial, CO · parking lot · urban

In review Go analyst is reading every section ✓ analyst sign-off · delivered in 36 h

10-Yr NPV

$284,000

IRR

14.8%

Payback

4.9 yr

EV Traffic

High

Competition

Low

Site Compat

High

Demographics

High

EV Corridor

Yes

Growth

Medium

baseline verdict: before the $320K in identified funding below

The thin margin

The margin between profit and a major loss is smaller than it looks.

DC fast economics rarely fail in one big way. They leak. A rate schedule with demand charges you didn't price. A funding round that closed. A utilization ramp two points slower than hoped. Any one of them can eat the cushion; two can flip the verdict.

Every one of them is a knowable fact, and the report pins each down: the verified tariff, the grid screen, the funding search, utilization from our own data.

Guess at these, and the spreadsheet says whatever you want it to.

What moves this example's NPV

Verdict cushion · 10-yr NPV$284,000

what the site earns above the 9% hurdle

If these go the wrong way

Tariff & demand charges−$60K

Utilization · 2 pts slow−$80K

Make-ready not awarded−$90K

Funding round missed−$78K

None of these is a disaster on its own. Together they quietly erase the margin, which is why the report resolves each one instead of assuming it.

The utilization projection

A ten-year read on real numbers.

The financials run a full ten years, and they're only as good as the demand behind them. So every L3 report carries a five-year utilization projection: sessions, energy, and how busy each charger runs, built by RightSite's own engine from multiple data sources.

Cumulative discounted cash flow · 10-year hold

cumulative discounted cash flow break-even (NPV=0) · payback

10-Yr NPV

$284,000

above the 9% hurdle

Discounted payback

6.2 yr

of 10-yr hold

IRR

14.8%

vs 9% cost of capital

Example site · pre-tax project cash flows · 9% discount rate · net investment $724K

A person signs off

Every report ships with human review.

Models miss what people catch. Before a report reaches your dashboard, an analyst has read it, the utilization curve, the rate schedule, the funding list, and signed their name to it.

01Address in

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02Engine run

Projection + full financials

utilization from our databases; rates, grid screen, funding, returns

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03Analyst review

A person reads every section

sanity-checks the projection against the site, and signs off

HUMAN-REVIEWED

Power is the gating question

The right tariff makes the site. The wrong one breaks it.

DCFC tariffs are a maze of energy, demand, and service charges, and the published data is often wrong. So we verify the schedule that actually fits this load, demand charges included, and model the real electric bill. Then the report screens whether the local grid can carry the load, and what an upgrade might cost if not.

Where the electric bill goes · year 5 CONFIDENCE HIGH

Annual electrical cost

$86,400

Rate schedule

Commercial DCFC
matched to this load

            energy 52%demand 38%service 10%
          

Demand charges, the line that surprises first-time DCFC builders, modeled from the utility's actual schedule, not a blended average.

Many utilities offer EV or clean-energy rates that lower this further; the report flags when to ask.

Grid capacity screen CONFIDENCE HIGH

Required load0.8 MW

Feeder headroom1.5 MW

Live utility capacity data where the utility publishes it; an engineering screen where it doesn't. If an upgrade were needed: $0–140K planning estimate; make-ready funding can offset it.

Indicative, and clearly labeled as such; only a utility service study is definitive.

The verdict, and the money that moves it

We hunt down the funding that turns a Hold into a Go.

The verdict stands on 10-year NPV against a 9% cost of capital, the same discipline as every RightSite report. Around it: the DCFC funding programs your site qualifies for, and the in-store revenue charging brings a retail host.

What the funding does here

up to $320,000

identified for this example, kept out of the baseline verdict until you apply it

Net investment · before$724,000

After funding applied$404,000

Hold → Go

On a marginal site, that swing is the whole verdict.

DCFC funding & incentives · found for this example

State DCFC Program · Round 3Open

Up to $250,000 per site · public access required

Eligible

Utility Make-ReadyUtility

Up to $70,000 · covers site electrical work, incl. service upgrades

Eligible

Identified, this exampleup to $320,000

Apply any program in one click and the whole model recomputes. Funding-limited and first-come; the report says so, and keeps it out of the baseline verdict.

Know before you build.