New Hampshire Is Seeking More Fast Charging in Gorham. One Supercharger Owner Says Power Bills Are Twice Revenue.

New Hampshire's Phase II NEVI process lists Gorham as a potential location for more federally backed fast charging at the same time the operator of an existing privately owned Supercharger site there says he plans to shut it down because his electricity bills have run at more than twice his charging revenue.¹²

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation's Phase II National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure solicitation lists Gorham as a potential fast-charging location in Eversource territory. The round makes about $9.6 million available, requires at least a 20% non-federal match, and had an Aug. 21 proposal deadline.¹

A few blocks of numbers explain why the existing site's owner is worried about the operating side of that equation. Terry MacGillivray, president of Summer Fun Inc., told the Concord Monitor that the four chargers had generated almost $15,900 in net charging revenue through mid-August while electricity bills had exceeded $32,500.² On those owner-reported figures, electricity bills were a little more than twice net charging revenue, with a gap of more than $16,600 before accounting for the site's reported capital cost or other expenses.²

MacGillivray told the Monitor he plans to shut the chargers on Oct. 25.² The underlying utility bills and charging-settlement records were not obtained by this newsroom, so the revenue, cost and planned-closure figures remain attributed to him through the Monitor rather than independently verified financial results.

The site is still active — and it is not Tesla-owned

Tesla's current station directory lists the Gorham Citgo Supercharger at 443 Main St. with four stalls capable of up to 300 kW, 24/7 access, and support for Tesla and other compatible EVs. The same listing explicitly says the site is not owned by Tesla.³

That distinction matters: this is not Tesla announcing a corporate retreat from Gorham. It is a private site operator describing his own economics and future plans.

The Monitor reports that MacGillivray invested $407,000 in the charging project and that more than 1,200 vehicles had charged there since the May installation, with nearly half of those vehicles reportedly non-Teslas.² Those figures show usage, but they do not establish a utilization rate, energy throughput, or whether the site is lightly or heavily used by industry standards.

The power-bill problem is more complicated than one demand charge

MacGillivray told the Monitor that his July Eversource bill was $13,211.73, including $10,679.64 in delivery charges. The same report separately says the site has also been hit by demand charges.² Those are not interchangeable terms, so the $10,679.64 figure should not be treated as a demand-charge total.

One piece of the rate story can be verified independently. Eversource's published Rate EV-2 was created for qualifying public EV-charging loads with separate metering, more than 100 kW of maximum demand, and at least 90% of the metered load dedicated to EV charging.⁴ The tariff says new applications or enrollment requests would no longer be accepted after Aug. 15, 2025 while the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission considered whether the rate should be revised, discontinued, or continued.⁴

The published EV-2 rate design uses a monthly customer charge and per-kWh delivery components rather than listing a demand-charge line item on the EV-2 schedule.⁵ MacGillivray told the Monitor that he believes he just missed the EV-2 enrollment window and has been seeking its reinstatement.²

There are important limits to that comparison. The newsroom has not established the Gorham site's exact current rate class, and the existing research does not establish that EV-2 is definitively unavailable through every possible current mechanism. Nor does it establish that EV-2 would make the site profitable.

NEVI can help build a charger. Operating economics are a separate question.

The timing makes the Gorham case more useful than a stand-alone complaint about an electric bill. NHDOT's Phase II RFP specifically names Gorham as a potential site while requiring proposers to bring at least 20% non-federal matching funds to projects supported by the roughly $9.6 million round.¹

That does not mean Gorham has received another charging award. A location in a solicitation is only a potential site, and no award is established by the sources reviewed.¹

It also does not show that NEVI-backed stations will face the same economics as MacGillivray's site. Public funding can change upfront capital costs, and different locations can have different traffic, pricing, utility rates, equipment and operating arrangements.

What the Gorham case does show is the distinction between getting fast-charging hardware installed and keeping a particular site financially sustainable after it opens. Here, the state is seeking additional corridor coverage in the same town where one private operator says his electricity costs are outrunning charging revenue by more than two to one.²¹

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Footnotes

1. New Hampshire NEVI DCFC Phase II RFP, RFP DOT 2027-01 — New Hampshire Department of Transportation; procurement copy indexed by GovTribe/Light RFP, issued June 9, 2026. https://govtribe.com/file/government-file/rfp-dot-2027-01-dot-pdf Establishes roughly $9.6 million for Phase II, at least a 20% non-federal match, the Aug. 21 proposal deadline, and Gorham as a potential fast-charging location in Eversource territory. A potential location is not an award. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. "Shutdown of North Country station exemplifies complexities of public EV charging" — Concord Monitor / David Brooks, Aug. 23, 2026. https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/08/23/nh-ev-charger-shutdown/ Original local reporting based on an interview with site owner Terry MacGillivray. Establishes the planned Oct. 25 closure and the owner-reported revenue, electricity-bill, capital-cost, vehicle-count and July-bill figures. Those financial figures are attributed claims and were not independently audited by this newsroom. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

3. "Gorham Citgo Supercharger" — Tesla Find Us, current station listing observed Aug. 25, 2026. https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/486853 Establishes the address, four-stall configuration, up-to-300-kW rating, 24/7 access, support for compatible non-Tesla EVs, and Tesla's statement that the site is not owned by Tesla. The dynamic listing does not establish the future closure plan. ↩

4. NHPUC No. 10 Electricity Delivery — Rate EV-2, Original Page 65-E — Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy / New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission. https://www.puc.nh.gov/regulatory/Tariffs/Eversource-PSNH-Electric-Tariff.pdf Establishes EV-2 eligibility terms, the initial three-year enrollment period and the Aug. 15, 2025 cutoff for new applications pending a later Commission proceeding/order. It does not establish the Gorham site's exact current rate class or every later case-specific development. ↩ ↩²

5. NHPUC No. 10 Electricity Delivery — Rate EV-2, rate schedule page 65-F — Public Service Company of New Hampshire d/b/a Eversource Energy / New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission. https://www.puc.nh.gov/regulatory/Tariffs/Eversource-PSNH-Electric-Tariff.pdf Establishes that the published EV-2 schedule uses a monthly customer charge and per-kWh delivery components rather than a demand-charge line item. It does not establish what the Gorham site would have paid under EV-2. ↩