The Isle of Wight council’s Cabinet members will be discussing plans to introduce another 15 Electric Vehicle Charging Points (EVCPs) on the Island next week (13th January).
As well as the ten charging points that were announced last year, Cabinet members are being asked to approve plans for another 15 charge points in nine car park location across the Island.
The move comes following an increasing number of complaints from residents and visitors about the lack of public EVCPs on the Island. The council say the situation is made considerably worse by the unreliability of the charge points that have been in place since 2013.
Land leased to operator
The council won’t be funding the installation of the 15 new charging points themselves, but plan to approve the first nine locations under a ‘Lease’ arrangement. Papers for the plans say:
“The ‘Lease’ ownership model represents the lowest level of investment from the landowner. In this model, all capital and operating costs are covered by an external supplier, with a small share of revenue retained by the landowner in return for making their land available to the charge point supplier.”
Income for council
The papers reveal that the new charging points are anticipated to provide an average annual income to the council of approximately £6,500 through the rebate arrangement which will be paid by the supplier when the charge points are profitable.
Imminent charging points
Ten new on-street charging points announced last year – two in Cowes, three in Newport, one each in Ryde, Sandown, Seaview and two in Ventnor – have been installed, but are yet to be switched on and put into operation.
News OnTheWight has been asking the council since the end of October when that would be. At first the council said they “would be working by the end of November 2021”, when that date came and went, they then said that it was, “taking longer than anticipated to get everything sorted out so it’ll be sometime in the New Year before they’re working”.
The paper
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