What charging points for businesses are available in the market?

Charging points for businesses are designed to regularly recharge commercial vehicles, vehicle fleets, and employee vehicles. Occasionally, charging points are also used by suppliers, visitors, or customers.

Before installing charging points in a commercial or industrial building, it is advisable to conduct a study for the implementation of the points. This analysis is carried out to calculate the costs of incorporating electric mobility infrastructure.

The installation of the charging points must be carried out by an authorized installer; however, if the installation will have a contracted power greater than 50 kW (or 10 kW outdoors), a project signed by a competent technician must be submitted.

The price of the charging points depends on the charging speed, the characteristics of the accessories, cables, etc. It is also necessary to consider whether construction work is required. Companies can rely on the MOVALT infrastructure aid for the installation of charging points, which can cover up to 60% of the investment.

Are companies required to install charging points for electric vehicles?

On June 30, 2015, Royal Decree 1053/2014 came into force, which approved a new Complementary Technical Instruction (ITC) BT 52 “Installations for special purposes. Infrastructure for the recharging of electric vehicles,” of the low voltage electrotechnical regulation, and modifies other complementary technical instructions of the same.

This Royal Decree was published in the BOE on December 31, 2014. Regarding equipment and materials, it is established in the indicated new complementary technical instruction that charging stations with standardized and technically safe connection elements must be used. Furthermore, through the first additional provision of the Royal Decree, minimum provisions for the structure for the recharging of the “electric vehicle” in new buildings or parking lots and on public roads are prescribed, as follows:

Minimum provisions established in Royal Decree 1053/2014, Mandatory in new buildings or parking lots.

A building or parking lot is considered new construction when the construction project is submitted to the competent public administration for processing after the entry into force, that is, a license application submitted after June 30, 2015.

a) Pre-installation: In collective parking lots or parking spaces in buildings under horizontal property regime, a main conduit must be executed through community areas (using tubes, channels, trays, etc.), so that it allows for the realization of branches to the charging stations located in the parking spaces, as described in section 3.2 of the (ITC) BT-52.

b) One charging station for every 40 spaces: In parking lots or parking spaces of private fleets, cooperatives, or companies, or those of offices, for their own staff or associates, or municipal vehicle depots. In permanent public parking lots.

NOTE: The Object and Scope of application of the ITC BT 52 also includes the parking lots of single-family homes or single ownership, providing the provisions and technical specifications for the installation of electric vehicle charging in the mentioned cases.

However, this installation is not interpreted as mandatory in parking lots of single-family homes or single ownership since the royal decree does not include them; rather, it is understood that the ITC BT 52 provides the corresponding technical data for projects that incorporate it.