Time is running out. HE August 22 deadline for big oil companies install chargers electric vehicles At 824 gas stationsAs mandated by the Climate Change Act, but companies assume that the target cannot be achieved even remotely, and blame electricity distributors and administration.
The Climate Change Act, approved in May 2021, obligation service stations of companies such as Repsol, Cepsa or BP or they have more ten million liters sold annually (about 200) will first establish electric charging points February of this yearThose selling between 5 and 10 million (824, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition) had a longer maturity through August.
In addition to all of this, we must add: service stations open According to the Petroleum Operators Association’s (AOP) data on last year’s openings, this adds 274 more stations to the account.
However, companies anticipate that most of these chargers will not be on the market at that time, revealing cases where charging points are plugged in but without power. some permissions or documents are missing green light for the process. “This is a widespread disaster,” says Nacho Rabadán, spokesperson for the Spanish Confederation of Service Station Entrepreneurs (CEEES). match reading gas stations Collaboration for the Development and Promotion of Electric Mobility (Aedive) reveals it’s about 6,800 charging points what are they pending commissioning8% less than the 7,400 that existed at the end of last year.
“Still existing key challenges in giving licenses and permits On the one hand, by the authorized public administrations, on the other distribution companiesadmits the managing director of the electric car association Aedive, Arturo Perez de Lucas. Electric companies assure that they take the same amount of time as the rest and the real delay is in the administration. Both electricity and oil companies warn that charging points do not work even though they are installed. discredit with the consumer.
In practice, a charging point takes several months to set up, but needs to be allowed to run. between one or two yearsdepending on whether it is low voltage (up to 100 kilowatts slow charge) or medium voltage (more than 100 kilowatt fast charge), but a path it takes longer another year and a half according to business sources. The problem is a large amount formalities what is needed
According to this employer, 25,106 operational charging points In Spain, it is light years away from its commitment to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan with Brussels. 80,000 and 110,000 this is 2023. Aedive explains that this target has been completely distorted and they propose other, more “realistic” targets: 23,000 in 2022, 70,000 in 2025, and 255,000 in 2030. the estimated average usage average 5.7% across all charging points, 1.5 points above the level at the end of 2022.
“It (a rhythm) is appropriate. current fleet of electric vehicles”, adds Pérez de Lucas. According to the update of the National Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), there are less than 500,000 electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles in Spain; this is only 5% of the 5.5 million target the Government wants to achieve before 2030. ANFAC, the employers’ association of electric vehicle manufacturers, disagrees a bit with this optimistic vision. 45,000 public charging points (today they estimate around 21,000). In addition, they add that the charge quality criterion is “absolutely” relevant for achieving a refueling time of between 15 and 27 minutes.
The truth is there is no general censussuch as fuel that reflects the geographic location of the ‘plug’ but also shows other attributes such as fuel price, availability, and availability. The chaos is so great that the national regulator, the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), has made an effort to bring order. public consultation up to September 29 Gathering ideas about all these problems that arise in the development of facilities and commissioning of charging infrastructures.