During the year 2022, the fast charging points for electric vehicles located in the ITER facilities have been visited by the public on 995 occasions supplying more than 20,000 kWh of clean energy from renewable sources.
The fast charging points for electric vehicles of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), an entity dependent on the Cabildo de Tenerife, were used 995 times between May and December 2022, supplying more than 20,000 kWh of clean energy from renewable sources, with an average load of approximately 20 kWh per user.
ITER has a charging station with seventeen recharging power points for electric vehicles open to the public free of charge, which includes two fast charging units with a unit power of 50 kW in direct current and Chademo and CCS Combo connection sockets all available during the entity’s business hours.
The strategic location of these fast chargers located in the Industrial Estate of Granadilla, in the TF-1, offering a high capacity of energy supply in short periods of time have positioned them as a high interest point for electric vehicle users. Moreover, the fact that the chargers are available exclusively during business hours, guarantees the availability of renewable resources to supply clean energy throughout the year.
Taking into account the 100% renewable origin of the energy, the user is guaranteed that the recharge of his vehicle is being carried out through a clean resource. The total energy supplied during the year 2022 by fast chargers is equivalent to a reduction to the atmosphere of 16 tons of CO2.
Gráfico 1. Evolution of the number of loads and energy supplied by ITER fast charging points since their opening.
Based on these values, it is expected that in 2023 the 30,000 kWh of clean energy supplied to electric vehicles will be widely exceeded.
As an added value, in the future, the users will have a shaded area provided by a pergola equipped with photovoltaic panels. This pergola will provide an important part of the energy supplied by the charging points in-situ.
The installation of ITER’s fast charging points for electric vehicles has been co-financed by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, within the framework of the Incentive Program for Efficient and Sustainable Mobility (MOVES-IDAE), which are co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the framework of the Multiregional Operational Program of Spain 2014-2020 (POPE), thematic objective 4, “Low Carbon Economy”.