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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 13, 2021

QUESTION NO.27

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

To ask the Chief Executive if there is any updated from the four local authorities regarding the matter of an agreed policy on EV charging.

REPLY:

The 4 Dublin Local Authorities engaged Element Energy to examine the anticipated demand for Electric Vehicle charging across the 4 Dublin LAs over the next 10 years. A draft strategy was delivered and outlining additional steps and recommendations around securing long-term funding streams and developing strategic partnerships.

The Electric Vehicle Steering Group reviewed the draft strategy and concluded that to progress the roll out of EV charging across the region, two key issues needed to be addressed.

  1. Bring the draft strategy to the relevant Departments to highlight the significant amount of funding that would be required to deliver the anticipated demand for EV charging presented in the strategy.
  2. Carry out a series of stakeholder engagement workshops on how this could be delivered.

The Dublin Local Authorities have now completed consultation on the strategy with various stakeholders

Primary stakeholders – in total 7 organisations were engaged with across 3 different groups:

Secondary stakeholders – a wide range of stakeholders were targeted In total 18 organisations were engaged with, in group workshops or individual interview 

The next steps of the project will examine procurement plan options required for the roll out of the strategy however this will be subject to resources & availability of funding from the Department of Transport

A number of LA’s across the country have trialled different EV charging projects as pilot schemes. Some of these have been commissioned and will form a basis for developing a national roll-out strategy.

South Dublin County Council are currently assessing potential sites/locations for public charging, these are sites where the installation of approved technology in EV charging can take place. SDCC has installed chargers in a number of depots for the councils own electric fleet.

Public EV charging in South Dublin is currently provided by private sector, commercial operators. 33 public EV charging spaces are provided at 15 locations across the county.