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… Cover design courtesy of Colin Keldie of K4Graphics 3 Orkney Electric Vehicle Strategy 2018 V 9.5 Orkney Electric Vehicle Strategy 2018-2023 Description This document was produced by electric vehicle (EV) drivers, coordinated by the Orkney Renewable Energy Forum (OREF). It is produced to help guide the decisions makers (Orkney Islands Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise…
…, private businesses, investors, individuals, Scottish and UK government) to enable them to efficiently deploy their capital and efforts to help de-carbonise Orkney’s road transport. It is expected that the Council will review its own EV Infrastructure Strategy 2014 to respond to the more up to date position established in this document. A draft of this strategy was written following Transport…
… the consultation closed, the Scottish Government also published its Energy Strategy. It reinforced the points in Transport Scotland’s documents and the UK Government announced its intention to mandate EV charge points in new buildings in its forthcoming building standards review. This document, in seeking to map out a path for the uptake of EVs in Orkney, is therefore extremely timely. It is launched…
… of charging infrastructure. This Strategy highlights shortcomings in the maintenance of the present charging infrastructure and proposes better data flows to allow this to be tackled. It also recommends the introduction of a charging scheme to reduce the drain on public finances and shows why public investment of approximately £1M needs to be made over the same period. In addition to specific Council…
… that the combination of the Council becoming an early adopter and seizing a funding opportunity, along with local enthusiasm for renewables and a population with a ‘can do’ attitude, have conspired to achieve the level of penetration seen to date in Figure 2. Figure 2. EVs registered in Orkney 2011 to Quarter 3 - 2017 1 Composed from VEH0131…