Harjunsalo Park: Marvea electrified all over 200 parking spaces in Harjussalo Park

Harjunsalo Park is a shared parking area for nine housing companies in Harjunsalo, Kangasala. The area will be completed over several years, and by the end of August 2024, three housing companies will be ready.

The site will have over 200 parking spaces, each with an electric car charger. The site is being built by Marvea , and the equipment will be installed in the first phase of the area construction by Vera in Tampere .

It was clear from the beginning that electric car charging should be taken into account in some way, and attention was paid to the matter already in the planning phase. The goal was that the parking area would serve all residents as well as possible. Each parking space is equipped with a remote-controlled slow charging/heating socket, eTolppa . The device enables electricity billing, metering, remote-controlled car heating, consumption monitoring and slow charging of electric cars with a maximum power of 3.6 kW.

The communication of smart e-Posts can be handled via a wireless network, which saves a large amount of money in the construction of communication. In the case of Harjunsalo, the whole thing is easy to implement, as the project will be completed in stages and the wireless network scales very easily. In Harjunsalo, residents have access to a few more efficient charging devices in addition to slow charging devices. Faster charging is charged on an hourly basis in addition to the kWh-based price. This ensures that residents only use faster charging when necessary, and that no one reserves the devices for their own use for long periods.

Residents' parking space lease agreements and equipment operation are handled using the eParking system.

The eParking system was selected for the project for charging devices and parking billing and management.

The eParking system enables simple parking space management, making rental agreements and charging residents for electricity. “Today, many types of parking games use electricity, and it is fairest that it is charged to each electricity user at the kWh price without burdening the company's cost structure. When the rental of parking spaces is also handled with the same application, administrative costs are saved,” sums up Jaakko Rautio from Marvea.

The system also takes care of load management, and as a new feature, eParking can be used to invoice based on spot prices. Spot pricing is possible if the housing company has signed an electricity contract based on the electricity exchange.