Reston’s electric vehicle infrastructure continues to grow with the recent installation of a charger at Waterford Square (11500 Fairway Drive).
Residents in the Waterford Square Condominium Association celebrated the addition of a dual-port Level 2 EV charger with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week (Oct. 15) that included Hunter Mill District Supervisor Walter Alcorn among its attendees.
According to Waterford Square Condo President Steve Garver, three existing residents in the 48-unit neighborhood are expected to use the chargers, and there are two others who own electric vehicles. He acknowledged that the charger is a “long-term commitment” whose presence the association hopes will encourage more EV adoption.
“I think it’s the future,” Garver said in a press release. “Clearly, it’s better for the environment than gas and these days a lot less expensive.”
Property manager Hannah Baratz with Abaris Real Estate Management also anticipates that having an EV charger available will improve the condos’ resale value “because of the opportunity for new buyers to potentially have a place to charge their electric cars or get an electric car.”
Waterford Square’s EV charger was supported by a $10,000 grant and technical assistance from Fairfax County’s Charge Up Fairfax program, which was established in 2023 to help homeowners’ associations install electric vehicle charging stations in common areas.
According to Alcorn, 30 communities have participated in Charge Up Fairfax so far, and 14 of them are in his district. In late 2024, Reston’s Harpers Square Cluster became the first neighborhood anywhere in the county to install chargers supported by the program.
Other participants that have completed installations, per the Fairfax County Office of Environmental and Energy Coordination, include:
- Encore of McLean Condominium Unit Owners Association (installed four single-port chargers in January 2026)
- Midtown North Condominium Unit Owners Association (one dual-port charger in August 2025)
- Penderbrook Community Association (four dual-port chargers in March 2025)
- Reflection Homes Association (one dual-port charger in May 2025)
- Westwood Village Unit Owners Association (one dual-port charger in May 2025)
Several other neighborhoods, including the Colonies at McLean, Pinewood Lake, Washington Plaza and Waterview Cluster, are still in the process of implementing their chargers.
Alcorn’s office noted that there are some associations that enrolled in Charge Up Fairfax and received technical assistance, but ultimately opted not to move forward with installations, including the Nantucket Cluster in Reston.
Aiming to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, Fairfax County leaders adopted a Community-Wide Energy and Climate Action Plan in 2021 that set a target of increasing hybrid and electric vehicles to at least 15% of all light-duty vehicle registrations by 2030.
As determined by an Electric Vehicle Readiness Strategy released last year, the county has a lot of ground to make up, with EVs making up only 3% of its registered cars, or 29,055 vehicles, as of 2023. The county government itself isn’t likely to fully transition its fleet to electric power until 2050 due to a lack of options for some kinds of vehicles, OEEC Director John Morrill told the Board of Supervisors last December.
Right now, the county government’s fleet is approximately 13% hybrid or electric, and it has more than 100 Level 2 charging ports at different facilities, including the main government center. Most of those chargers are available for the public to use for a fee.
According to the EV Readiness Strategy, the county has around 369 EV charging station locations with a total of 1,395 ports outside of homes. The stations are mostly in the Reston, Herndon and Tysons areas.
A U.S. Department of Transportation grant awarded to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments in June 2025 included $2.5 million for Fairfax County to fund the installation of publicly accessible EV charging stations at its facilities.
