The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) have awarded the pilot tender for electric vehicle (EV) charging points in public car parks across Singapore.
The pilot tender will see the deployment of 632 EV chargers at over 200 car parks in locations such as public housing and industrial estates, public parks, community centres and the Central Business District over the next 12 months.
The rollout will contribute towards the national target to deploy 40,000 charging points in public car parks by 2030.
ComfortDelGro (CDG) Corporation and French energy giant ENGIE have jointly won the tender for the Central, East and West regions. This translates to a total of 479 out of the 632 charges in the pilot rollout,
The charges comprise 92 x 22 kilowatt (kW) AC chargers, 279 x 7kW AC chargers and 8 x 50kW DC chargers.
According to a statement released by CDG and ENGIE on Sept 3, installation of the charges will begin before the end of this year and is expected to be completed by 3Q2022.
The tender for the North and North-East regions was awarded to a consortium between Primech A&P, Charge+, Sunseap Group and Oyika.
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The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) tender was keenly contested with a total of 19 bids submitted.
“This is a major win for the partnership between CoDG and ENGIE in the area of EV charging and we are excited to be given the opportunity to offer our expertise to bolster EV adoption in the local transport industry. We will work hand in hand with ENGIE to populate the island with EV charging stations, bringing green energy to the masses,” says Yang Ban Seng, CDG’s managing director.
Beyond this tender, CDG and ENGIE are also looking at building EV charging farms on CDG’s premises. These charging farms, some of which will be powered by renewable energy, will offer fast charging solutions to cabbies and public users.
This is in line with CDG’s announcement that it is committing $50 million in clean energy technology and research, which include transiting towards a clean-energy fleet, improving energy efficiency, adopting renewables and driving business innovation, for the next five years.
CDG also has plans to add more EVs into its fleets, and was the first to commercialise its DC fast charging station on its premise on Nov 13, 2018. It added a second fast charging station in June last year.
As at 3.02pm, shares in CDG are down 1 cent or 0.62% lower at $1.60.
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