Brighton & Hove receives £2.8m government grant to expand public charging
Brighton & Hove will receive a total of 2.8 million pounds in funding, which will be used to install 500 EV charging points there annually over the next three years. Moreover, the Brighton & Hove City Council specifies that new contracts “will also offer more choice and flexible tariffs, including off-peak rates and access to more than 2,000 charging points.”
It also says that most of the planned charging points will offer less than 8 kW, but the council will also install “destination charging points” with up to 50 kW near, for example, “sports centres, libraries and shopping areas.” There will also be new fast-chargers with up to 150 kW. The council does not specify how many of each it plans to install.
It does mention that there are currently only 18 fast-chargers in the region, “mostly for taxis, but we will be finding more locations that can be used for residents and visitors too.”
“The dramatic increase in the number of public locations will help give residents confidence they can use a charging point close to where they live,” says Councillor Trevor Muten, Cabinet member for Transport, Parking and Public Realm. “Scaling up also offers new opportunities to introduce flexible and off-peak tariffs to make it cost effective for residents to charge their electric vehicles in the city.”
The UK municipality recently installed 100 lamp post charging points. These, too, were subsidised by a government grant from the OZEV (Office for Zero Emission Vehicles). The council received 440,000 pounds from the latter, which covered 60 per cent of the total cost. Blink Charging, which installed and operates the chargers, covered the remainder of the bill.
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