The Local Governing Board of Benidorm City Council has given the green light to the plan to put in fast and semi-quick charging stations for electric cars in the Levante area. The proposal from the Councillor for Mobility, Francis Muñoz, says that this project will cost €129,008.45.
The European Next Generation EU will pay for this project. It is part of the Benidorm 2022 Tourism Sustainability Plan (PSTD), and it is specifically included in the action “ID: 4-Improvement of energy efficiency.”
The Benidorm Electric Mobility Plan (Movele), which was approved in plenary session on December 26, 2022, includes the installation of charging points for electric vehicles. This plan is the strategic document that looks at and combines the different sustainable development plans that have been approved in the municipality in recent years (PMUS, PES, PTUS, PACC, and PACES).
The City Council’s top goal is to slowly build up a network of charging points.
The Movele Plan has four main goals, one of which is to promote charging infrastructure. This includes planning charging points for the whole municipality, directing subsidies to build this infrastructure, making rules for it, and adding more charging points in hotels.
The Plan’s goals are to get more electric vehicles into municipal and company fleets, build the best possible charging infrastructure, and make sure that at least 2.5% of new municipal vehicle registrations are electric vehicles.
In this context, the City Council has set as a priority objective “the progressive deployment of a charging point infrastructure, offering citizens and visitors the possibility of charging their vehicles using fast and semi-fast chargers in line with the objectives of sustainability, energy efficiency and emissions reduction that we pursue,” said the Councillor for Mobility, Francis Muñoz.
The works
The authorised project includes setting up two charging points with a total power of 80 kW. Each point will have two CCS Combo 2 (FF) type connections and will be set up in a 1×80 kW / 2×40 kW configuration with charging mode 4. Muñoz has also said that the project budget includes “the costs of the installation itself, as well as the procedures to make sure that the electricity supply is reliable.”
Muñoz says that the project will “expand and improve the municipal infrastructure for charging electric vehicles, promote electric mobility, reduce emissions from transportation, improve energy efficiency, and make Benidorm a more competitive tourist destination that is committed to sustainability and the energy transition.”
Author: Derek Appleton
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