CESL to set up 810 EV charging stations across 16 highways, expressways pan india – EQ Mag Pro
Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL) will arrange 810 electrical car charging stations throughout 16 highways and expressways protecting 10,275 kilometres throughout the nation. CESL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) below the Ministry of Power has found costs for organising 810 electrical car charging stations (EVCSs), a press release stated.
The chosen corridors embody busy routes such because the Mumbai-Pune freeway, Ahmedabad-Vadodara Highway, Delhi-Agra Yamuna Expressway, Eastern Peripheral Expressway, Hyderabad ORR Expressway, and Agra-Nagpur Highway to call just a few, as per the assertion.
CESL is utilizing a service procurement mannequin for organising these charging stations.
In this public-private-partnership mannequin, CESL will accomplice with firms whose job might be to spend money on and function these charging stations throughout the expressways and highways.
These charging stations are anticipated to be established within the subsequent 6-8 months.
Putting up charging infrastructure on highways is a part of the FAME-II scheme administered by the Ministry of Heavy Industries.
These electrical car charging stations might be designed to cater to each non-public and public automobiles together with ones on the roads at this time — equivalent to Hyundai Kona, Tata Nexon EV, MG ZS EV and different appropriate EVs and e-buses.
Providing quick DC connectors, CESL will set up 590 chargers of 50kW capability and 220 chargers of upper 100kW capability.
The chargers with 50kW capability might be accessible each 25 kilometres and the 100kW chargers each 100 kilometres.
This tender has achieved the federal government’s imaginative and prescient to mix subsidy with funding and encourage non-public funding within the charging stations enterprise.
Source: PTI
