I’ve been trying to get the council to install more public EV chargers in recent times and I’m very happy to confirm that they’re starting a roll out of new chargers before summer 2025. They’ll also be re-opening the EV chargers in Marlay Park, Fernhill Park and Cabinteely Park in early 2025. This is part of the Dublin Local Authority EV Charging Strategy 2022-2030.
The council are planning more public EV chargers in 10 locations in our area, including four locations in various parts of Sandyford. At most of these locations, there will be more than one charger installed. These new EV chargers will be installed some time between April and June 2025. The new locations for the EV charging points in Sandyford will be:
- Ballawley Park car park (on Sandyford Road)
- Sandyford village – the car parking spaces just off the village in Sandyford Park
- Furze Road, Sandyford Business District
- Arena Road, Sandyford Business District
There may be more than one charger in each location. In the initial rollout across the 50 sites across Dublin, 90% of the chargers will be offering 100kW speeds. All fast chargers will conveniently support tap and go contactless payment via debit or credit cards.
A market leader in EV charging and solar panel solutions, Irish company ePower was selected to undertake the rollout following a competitive Europe-wide tender process. For this, the 200 chargers will be placed at 50 locations, including local authority-owned car parks in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Dublin City, Fingal, and South Dublin and other locations will include community centres, libraries and sports clubs.
While Dublin has the most charging points for EV owners in the country, the majority of these are privately installed and there is a lack of public charging points available. With people still interested in EV ownership, particularly as prices for the vehicles reduce and the technology advances, that means there is likely to be a large upscaling of ownership over the next few years when it is expected that some 138,000 EVs will be registered in the Dublin region. Around a quarter of those EVs will rely on public charging.
To cater for that growth, the Dublin EV Strategy developed by the four local authorities has targeted up to 1,650 charge points being deployed at highly frequented destinations. The rollout at these types of locations will play a critical role along with the deployment of neighbourhood and en-route charging points for different vehicle types.
The update I received includes the news that the EV chargers in Marlay Park, Cabinteely Park and Fernhill Park will be brough back into use early in 2025. These chargers will now operate similar to other public EV chargers with a pay-per-use charge.
The previous update I received in September 2024 said something similar and I will continue to keep the attention on the need to increase the number of public EV chargers in our area, particularly as so many people who want to use an EV don’t have access to a driveway for charging.
Have any more locations you’d like public EV chargers in our area? Let me know at [email protected] and I’ll pass on the requests to the council. Private property owners are starting to install even more chargers on their premises too – sometimes required by planning and sometimes from demand by members of the public.
You can find more information about the grants available for installing EV chargers here, including supports for installing EV chargers in apartment developments and other mult-unit residential developments.
