Study Finds On-Street Lampost EV Chargers Are Lowest-Carbon Solution via insideevs.com
, and conducted by Sustainability Analytics. It aims to quantify how much carbon emissions could be avoided by deploying lamppost chargers instead of conventional charging pillars. The authors note that there are at least 300,000 lampposts in the UK suitable for retrofitting for charging purposes.The study’s conclusion that lamppost chargers embody less carbon because they repurpose existing infrastructure chimes with common sense.
“The resource requirements for new charge pillars is much higher than using the existing sources of on-street electricity, so it is no surprise that building new pillars will cause more carbon emissions,” said Henry le Fleming, founder of Sustainability Analytics. Everything has an environmental footprint, and those who deploy EVSE often discuss the greenness of the electricity that their chargers will use. However, we seldom if ever hear about the relative carbon footprints of alternative types of hardware. ChargeLight would like to see government agencies consider embodied carbon as a criterion in charging infrastructure funding decisions.
“This study shows not only that lamppost charging is by far the lowest-carbon solution for on-street charging infrastructure, but it also underlines why embodied carbon should be a much higher priority consideration for government funding bodies and corporate entities when selecting technology solutions,” said ChargeLight Managing Director Tom Pakenham.
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