The city of Charleroi will install 96 electric charging stations, as it responded favourably to a call for interest from Wallonia, the administration announced in a statement on Wednesday.
As part of its recovery plan, Wallonia has the ambition to deploy some 4,000 charging points as the region wishes to prepare for the electrification of the car fleet. The charging stations will be the subject of a public contract centralised at the level of the Walloon public service.
The terminals will be installed in the city by the intermunicipal company Igretec, which has been entrusted with the administrative and technical support of the dossier, as well as the monitoring of the implementation of the installation sites.
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The terminals that will be placed are 22 Kw ones: "semi-rapid terminals requiring between one hour and three hours of charging," specified the city. Each bollard can power two cars and therefore requires two contiguous locations.
On 27 March, the Charleroi city council approved a map for the future charging stations, which has been drawn up with the aim of distributing the equipment on its territory as functionally and efficiently as possible.
