Just days after Believ won a £21m tender to install chargers on behalf of Suffolk Council, North Northamptonshire Council has announced it has awarded the contract to add 1,500 EV charging sockets across the region to Connected Kerb.
The multimillion-pound scheme is being part-funded by £2.9m from the government’s £400m Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure fund (LEVI) and over the next three to five years will see Connected Kerb install 1,500 sockets across 320 sites in 12 towns, 20 villages and 20 council-owned car parks in the region.
This project is typical of the ones that are being announced by councils as they draw on LEVI cash, as Connected Kerb is part-funding the scheme, while the chargers themselves will be slower, on-street and destination sockets, rather than standalone hubs.
Councillor Chris McGiffen from North Northamptonshire Council commented that the new sockets represent “a practical investment in our local infrastructure that will benefit residents, businesses and visitors across North Northamptonshire for years to come”.
Chris Pateman-Jones, meanwhile, chief executive of Connected Kerb, said the authority is undertaking “one of the most ambitious EV charging programmes in the region”, and the chargers will help people “embrace cleaner, more sustainable transport”.
