202200323589 · FOI · not held
Charging points numbers and cost: FOI release
Information requested
How many charging points for electric cars has Charging Point Scotland built (the overall figure, and breakdown by financial year). How much has been spent on installing charging points in Scotland (the overall figure, and break down by financial year). Any correspondence between Charging Point Scotland and Transport Scotland/Scottish Government regarding meeting the target of 30,000 charging points by 2030.
Response
1. Please see table below - Table 1.
ChargePlace Scotland (CPS) do not build or install charge points. Charge points on CPS are procured and installed by organisations who have received grant funding from the Scottish Government. A condition of the grant funding is that their charge point(s) must be commissioned onto the CPS network. Please note there are a few charge points included in the CPS install figures that have been commercially funded (not SG funded).
Column 1: Total charge points for public and non-public (depot, business and fleet) charge points.
Column 2: Total publicly available charge points only.
2. Please see table below - Table 2.
Transport Scotland do not hold information on the total investment made by all organisations and businesses to develop public EV charging infrastructure in Scotland, for instance, commercial investments that take place in Scotland that aren't part of the CPS network. Figures provided below present the grant funding amounts committed by the Scottish Government each year to enable installation of EV charging infrastructure, however these figures do not include funding for the installation of charge points for EC buses.
Transport Scotland also support domestic and business charge point installs, totals can be found in the EST website by using the links below.
Domestic chargepoint funding - Energy Saving Trust
Business chargepoint funding - Energy Saving Trust
3.
There has been no correspondence between ChargePlace Scotland (CPS) and Transport Scotland/Scottish Government regarding a target of 30,000 charge points by 2030. This is not a Scottish Government target but a figure suggested by the Climate Change Committee as a potential target.
Table 1
Year Total All Charge Point Installs Publicly Available Installs April 2014 - March 2015 265 157 April 2015 - March 2016 285 253 April 2016 - March 2017 114 82 April 2017 - March 2018 202 161 April 2018 - March 2019 367 219 April 2019 - March 2020 990 513 April 2020 - March 2021 957 394 April 2021 - March 2022 461 273 April 2022 - October 2022 411 270
Table 2. Funding Awarded by Scottish Government for installation of Public EV Charging Infrastructure.
Financial Year £000 of Funding Awarded 2010/11 3,565 2011/12 1,625 2012/13 1,520 2013/14 2,059 2014/15 2,622 2015/16 1,654 2016/17 2,193 2017/18 2,571 2018/19 13,914 2019/20 13,625 2020/21 11,341 2021/22 6,540 2022/23 3,172 Grand Total 66,400
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