With the news last month that none of our 11 councils have applied for the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) grant yet, we sent them all an email on the 31st January asking: Do you intend to apply for funds…
After our meeting with Cathal Boylan MLA, he posed several questions on our behalf around EVs in NI. We’ve been eagerly awaiting the answer to this one: AQW 13792/17-22 – To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount…
Now that we have published our 6 steps for change, it’s time to get the message out to all of our political representatives. A Few Clicks You can email all your MLAs with a few clicks by visiting writetothem.com and…
After the most intensive month of meetings in NIEVO’s history, the road ahead for EV charging in Northern Ireland has become much clearer. The 6 Point Plan Here is our manifesto for change – 6 steps that we believe are…
This January we conducted our first survey of EV drivers in Northern Ireland. We received an excellent response with 204 replies – thanks to everyone that took part. This number means that we now have representative information to use when…
Earlier this month we contacted OZEV (formerly OLEV) to enquire about the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS). This grant is administered by the Energy Saving Trust and is available to all local authorities across the UK to fund 75% of…
Following on from our recent meeting with ESB, on 22nd January we also met with the new Chief Executive of the NI Utility Regulator, John French, along with his colleagues Tanya Hedley (head of Networks) and Neil Bingham. Although they…
We held a Zoom meeting with NIE Networks on the 19th January to discuss some of the current issues surrounding EV charging in Northern Ireland. NIE Want Change in Installation Costs NIE Networks gave a presentation to the Committee for…
The latest statistics from Zap Map (January 2021) show there are now 36,914 charging points around the UK. Usefully they have broken the data down by region, allowing us to take the figures and sort them by the fairest metric…
Today we are launching a new survey to get a clearer picture of the EV public charging network in Northern Ireland. It’s a simple online process that takes less than 5 minutes and is completely anonymous with no personal data…