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The City Council of Murcia and Iberdrola promote within the strategic project Murcia SmartCity electric mobility by signing the Agreement for an Innovative Development of infrastructure for rapid recharging of Electric Vehicles in Murcia.

José Ballesta: "The new charging points will be free for all residents and visitors of Murcia for a year, encouraging the use of electric vehicles in our municipality and promoting the creation of a public network of fast charging points."

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the commercial delegate of Iberdrola Clientes Región Este, Joaquín Manuel Longares, signed today the Collaboration Agreement for the Development of the pilot project of infrastructures for rapid recharging of Electric Vehicles in the city of Murcia, which will allow Enable 10 new express electrolineras, free of charge, in the municipality.

“These new charging points will be free for all residents and visitors of Murcia for a year, including those users who use this transport in a professional manner, such as taxi drivers, encouraging the use of electric vehicles in our municipality and promoting the creation of a public network of fast charging points, �said the mayor of Murcia, who said that“ Murcia currently has more than twenty different locations for charging electric vehicles, distributed by gas stations, shopping centers and public parking. �

Free for seniors, youth and large families

The ten new charging points for electric cars will be free for one year for users of electric vehicles, counting, in particular, from the start-up of the same by each user.

At the end of this period, the service will continue to be free of charge for large families, as well as for people over 65 and young people under 30, whether they are residents or visitors to Murcia, for up to four years, the maximum renewable period of this Agreement. .

Likewise, electric vehicles of the City of Murcia may also use the charging points for free during the term of the Agreement and its possible extensions, promoting the use of the electric vehicle in the municipality

The event was attended by the Councilor for Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, José Guillén, the Councilor for Sustainable Development and Huerta, Antonio Navarro, the Institutional Director of Iberdrola in the Region of Murcia, Patricio Valverde, the head of Iberdrola Clients in the Region from Murcia, Itziar Pérez, and the Director of Modernization and Quality of Administration, José Martínez Márquez.

Essential pillar of Murcia Smart Ciy

The consolidation of electric mobility is one of the essential pillars of the new energy model and, in particular, of the Murcia Smart City strategy.

In this context, the City Council and Iberdrola will work hand in hand to promote the use of the electric vehicle, overcoming the current barriers to the option of such mobility, such as the absence of fast recharging infrastructures in spaces owned and publicly accessible.

Both entities share common objectives, related to the change of the mobility model in cities, based on the electrification of transport, with the aim of achieving greater energy efficiency, as well as to reduce emissions associated with transport and improve air quality in the cities.

The signing of this Agreement is a consequence of all this and is framed within the strategic Murcia Smart City project, and aligned with the Municipal Clean Air strategy and the Local Electric Vehicle Strategy, which encourages the use of renewable energies and the sustainable development of mobility, as well as new transport systems in the city and new mobility models, applying the latest technological innovations to improve the quality of life and services provided to Murcia.

Specifically, this Agreement has been promoted by the Murcia Smart City Office, in collaboration with the Local Energy Agency.

Juan de Borbón, Ronda Norte and Alameda de Colón, new charging points

The locations of the ten new fast charging points (50kW), which involve the creation of 18 new parking spaces for electric vehicles and will begin to be installed in the coming weeks, are as follows:

-Don Juan de Borbón Avenue, 52 - 1 charging point with 2 parking spaces.

-Street los Nietos, 2 (Ronda Sur) - 2 recharging points with 4 parking spaces.

-Avenida los Pinos, 7 - 2 recharging points with 4 parking spaces.

-Ronda Norte, 26 (Opinion Square) - 1 charging point with 1 parking space.

-Plane of San Francisco, 8 - 1 recharging point with 1 parking space.

-Alameda de Colón, 10 - 1 charging point with 2 parking spaces.

-Plaza Circular, 1 - 1 recharging point with 2 parking spaces.

-C / Huerto Manu, 9 - 1 charging point with 2 parking spaces.

Electric vehicles owned by the City of Murcia may also use the charging points for free during the term of this agreement and its possible extensions.

The Recharge infrastructure operation platform will use the standard protocols (OCPP), allowing the registration of any user, recharge management and recharge reservation.

In addition, the use of the citizen card for the activation of the charging points will be allowed.

The Electric Vehicle Strategy of Murcia, national prize for Sustainable Mobility

The Local Electric Vehicle Strategy is the most important milestone in terms of support policies for the electric vehicle carried out so far in the City Council, which includes a total of 50 measures that seek to reduce pollutant emissions in Murcia and which was recognized in 2019 with the 'Renault Award for best practice in Sustainable and Accessible Mobility', in the category of Public Administration.

Murcia, at the forefront in the management of electric charging points in Spain

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the director of Iberdrola Distribution in the Valencian Community and Region of Murcia, Bonifacio Álvarez, signed in 2019 the Collaboration Agreement for the development and implementation of the Smart City project in 2019, turning the Murcia Consistory into the First City Council of Spain to sign this agreement.

The firm allowed to incorporate into the intelligent platform of the City of Murcia, 'MiMurcia', the so-called 'neuronal trace', that is, the plan of the electricity distribution network of the municipality, having accurate information on the location, capacity and consumption of the network throughout the municipality, being able to also provide the necessary reinforcements to deal with the actions required by the implementation of the Smart City model.

Among the applications that favors the deployment of the smart grid, it is worth highlighting the detection of the best charging points for electric and clean vehicles in the municipality of Murcia, the improvement of the quality of supply and the attention to the citizen, the development of new functionalities of the electricity distribution network, reducing the energy costs of the city, as well as obtaining data related to consumption, integration of renewables and penetration of electric mobility that help optimal management.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia