I would like to know the following:
* The number of charging points for electric vehicles installed by your local authority
* The cost of installing these charging points
I would like data for each of the last three years, with a year-end March 31st 2023
In response to both questions, we can confirm the following:
Devon County Council (DCC) have been delivering electric vehicle chargepoints in car parks through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) part funded “DELETTI” project. The project has awarded contracts for chargepoints at approximately 100 car parks across Devon, Torbay, and South Somerset. 65 of the car parks are in Devon (excluding Torbay), typically installing a single dual socket chargepoint per site. Approximately 25 of these will be “rapid” chargepoints and the remainder 22kw “fast” chargepoints. “Passive provision” in the form of the grid connection has also been installed to allow the suppliers to increase the number of chargepoints at each site if there is sufficient demand. Contracts were awarded in 2021/22 and sites started to be installed in 2022/23 and will continue to 2023/24. The number of sites delivered is below.
FY22/23: 22 chargepotints
FY23/24 forecast: 43 chargepoints
A total of £250,000 capital funding was allocated to chargepoints in Devon through the DELETTI project, with the majority of funding provided by ERDF and local match funding provided by participating district councils and DCC. However, we received a number of competitive bids for the tenders with suppliers bringing more of their own funding to the project than originally anticipated and not all of this funding will be used.
The “Rapid Charging Devon” project is also delivering chargepoints across Devon. This is a privately led project by a chargepoint operator and receives no funding from DCC. However, a number of the chargepoint sites are on-street and, as the highway authority, DCC has a role to enable the delivery of these chargepoints.
In addition, in the last year 6 chargepoints were delivered for sole use by DCC Fleet with 2 more to be delivered this financial year. The total cost of these 8 chargepoints including all fees and surveys etc will be approximately £120,000.