Helsinki Housing Company: Charging points for the housing company - that's how it succeeds!

11 February

Helsinki -based housing company decided to order a download solution and service. In a large-scale charging target, the benefits of the EParking service were dynamic load control, easy consumption monitoring, and compiled billing.

The site had 113 shareholders in the heated parking garage, without the temperature poles. The aim was to enable 11 kW power to charge and upgrade electric car.

Work done by the installation movement:

4 Installation of the Distribution Center
An extension of the electrical main center
Separate measurement center for charging

Costs for downloading points:

The total work of the electricity shop cost around € 40,000 (including electric survey, distribution centers, main center and measurement center).
Cable installation at the parking space 250 € / place
Installing the charging device 100 € / device
85 cable readings were ordered, eventually 35 chargers were introduced.
The chargers were mainly 11 kW chargers of Type 2. The equipment was ordered from SatMatic , an EParking partner.
Residents were allowed to choose between 3.6 kW and 11 kW (prices: € 1,100 and € 1,500, incl. VAT).

Billing and Payments:

Electricity is billed according to consumption through the EParking system.
Payments will be transferred directly to the housing association's account without commission.
The housing association's VAT stock on this site was 0 %.
The expense of the billing service will be charged directly from the shareholders and no additional costs are incurred by the housing company.

The average cost per capita was around € 2,100 (including charger, installation, cabling and share of the electrical work). The housing company led the project itself and received 50 %of the ARA grant.

Note on the project

This case shows that expanding the charging capacity of the parking garages can be efficiently and scaled. The site was invested in the future: although in the early stages, 35 charging devices were now being prepared for a total of 85 charging points ,.

As the object's etolpat communicates wirelessly with the mesh network formed by a single connection device, there was no need to install expensive Ethernet wiring. This project is a good example of how easy and flexible construction of electric cars charging infrastructure can be.

For the reference, Tomi Hämäläinen of Kumpula Electricity has been interviewed.