NEW DELHI: More than three years after setting up Delhi’s first “smart” public electric vehicle (EV) charging system in south Delhi, BSES discoms have achieved a new milestone of facilitating the installation of more than 1,000 EV charging points in the national capital.
Since the launch of the Delhi EV policy in August 2020 by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the city has seen a significant rise in the sale of EVs, which currently account for around 10% of all vehicle registrations in the national capital.
A BSES official said that the discoms are also playing a major role in the promotion of the EV sector. He said that from launching Delhi’s first smart EV charging point in south Delhi, followed by the second one in east Delhi, BSES has facilitated the installation of 1,083 charging points at around 450 locations.
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), which caters to northern parts of the city, said that it has set up or facilitated the installation of 561 charging stations, with the number of charging points being 665.
The BSES official said: “An analysis shows that 45% (482) of the total charging points are private charging points, 34% (372) public EV charging points, and 21% (229) charging points for captive use.”
He said that in the private charging space, a majority of the 482 private EV charging points – 299 (62%) – are installed at locations provided by residents’ welfare associations and housing societies. “This is followed by EV charging points installed at commercial premises like malls, hospitals, colleges, etc (120, 25%). The number of EV charging points at individual homes is 63 or 13% of the total private space,” he added.
“In the next couple of months, BSES discoms plan to energise around 600 EV charging points. Of these, nearly 58% each will be in the public EV charging space and 40% in the private charging space,” he added.
“The rest will be captive charging points for the growing fleet of EVs for the in-house use of BSES,” the official said.
A TPDDL official said that the company intends to deploy chargers covering RWAs and public parking spots, apart from both government and private locations as part of its overall EV charging infrastructure expansion plan. The official also said that the discom is now offering CCS2 (combined charging system) chargers, which are compatible with all electric vehicles.
A tender was earlier floated by BSES Rajdhani Power Limited for empanelment of vendors, on behalf of the three disoms, following which a single-window process for the installation of slow and fast EV chargers was created for the use of consumers.
Private EV charging points can be installed at homes, group housing societies, multi-storey apartment complexes, RWA offices, shops, etc, through the Switch Delhi portal.
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