time limiting access to the charging infrastructure to ensure the facilities have good turn over and can be used by wider part of the population • Ensure the deployment of fast speed charging stations at appropriate locations while having due regard to environmental sensitives such as cultural heritage and archaeology, traffic and transport conditions, people and businesses, and material assets.
Normal Speed Stations
• Normal speed residential neighbourhood charging infrastructure should where possible replace existing on-street parking spaces, • It is preferrable to place normal speed residential charging infrastructure on side streets and not on roads/ streets which have been designated key bus routes or cycle routes. Should it be necessary to place charging infrastructure on bus routes, there needs to be sufficient buffer to ensure the charging cables to not impact on either the safe movement of pedestrians/ cyclists or vehicles. • At Normal Speed Charging Stations existing parking regulations (i.e. parking disc zone, residential parking permit) will remain in place, ensuring that such chargers are reserved primarily for those actively charging from the local community who do not have access to a driveway or private off-street parking space. • At a minimum each disk parking zone will be provided with one Normal Speed Charging Station. • Access to normal speed charging stations will be actively managed by the operator to ensure the facilities are not monopolised by one or two users and that there is fair access to the wider residential community in terms of their use. Such fair access may include, the requirement to book a charging session (i.e. morning, afternoon, evening, night, etc..), limiting access to an individual charge point to every second, third, etc.. day. • Charging Stations are proposed in estates where the roads have been taken in charge by the Local Authority. In the other estates, the development management company will need to provide the charging infrastructure, ZEVI currently have grants to facilitate such investment by private property management companies. • Normal speed charging stations will not be provided on any privately owned (or leased) parking spaces in estates which have been taken in charge. • Ensure the deployment of normal speed charging stations at appropriate locations while having due regard to environmental sensitives such as cultural heritage and archaeology, traffic and transport conditions, people and businesses, and material assets. Proposed Fast Charging Infrastructure Network The following section presents the proposed locations to support the delivery of the Fast Charging Infrastructure Network to serve Cork City. As noted earlier the delivery of the entire network will require a detailed phasing plan to both meet the expected increase in the delivery of Electric Vehicles on street but also the upgrade to the region ’ s Electrical Network to ensure sufficient capacity is provided to service the Charging Infrastructure Network. Maps showing the indicative locations of both the fast charging stations and the normal speed charging stations are presented in Appendix A, however it is important to note that further design and assessment are required before finalising the location and layout of each proposed station. There is likely to be changes to the final number and location of charging stations taking into account local requirements including access (and upgrades) to the existing ESB network and other street side activities (waste collection, local access etc..).
Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy - Publicly Accessible Charging Infrastructure
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