Network of electric mobility is already shifting to municipalities – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The property network of electric vehicle charging stations is already moving on to the municipalities, he told PUBLIC Secretary of State for Energy, Artur Trindade. The transfer is being operationalized by MOBI.E that will deliver free property points to the municipalities, which can then exploit them or concessioná them to third parties.

                     

                         While this happens, the government has yet to finish installing the charging points that are missing in the national network of electric mobility:. 124 slow points and 49 quick points and get over 300 points inoperative, using EU funds

Something Artur Trindade expected to succeed “within two or three months”, because only then will the missing payments to manufacturers.

The consortium that made the MOBI.E network, yet in time of José Sócrates, it was made up of entities such as Efacec, Inteli (IAPMEI), the CEIIA and Novabase. After completion of the pilot phase (they were installed 1077 points) in 2011, the network management was a kind of limbo, with costs to be met by the consortium members. Since its establishment, the whole project has already cost “six to seven million euros,” said Artur Trindade.

It’s been almost year and a half since the Government published the new legal framework for electric mobility but only on Wednesday they were published some of the orders that come regulate energy free marketing to fuel vehicles, opening the activity to competition. “They are very technical ordinances, clarifying issues such as insurance and electrical installations for condominiums, but not hinder that private operators to enter the business,” said the official, refusing any delay.

This Wednesday, the same day they left these diplomas at a conference held at the PS, Manuel Caldeira Cabral said the Executive Passos Coelho “was two years without any [energy] policy, and then resume what they were the previous government policies” to area, thus denouncing the “complete reversal of policy,” the economist justified in order to go “behind the EU funds”.

Since the publication of the act, in April 2014, there was no request licensing. A fact which shows that this is a business “very little profitable,” what matters above all the manufacturers and sellers of electric vehicles, since the boots are expensive and the cost of energy “is marginal,” argues Arthur Trinity.

Perhaps this is why the government has had “expressions of interest from suppliers of vehicles they intended to take an offer full service “, namely that “includes the vehicle loading and energy “. Nuno Sá Lourenço