Arrecife will premiere in the second semester of this 2020 the first four public points for the recharge of electric vehicles. The Arrecife City Council has just awarded these facilities to which it will allocate an investment of close to 60,000 euros.
The Public Sector Contracting Platform inserts, dated May 18, the announcement of the Arrecife City Council's Contracting table, which reflects that the company SOCASSAT INSTALACIONES Y SERVICIOS, S.L. has been the successful bidder of the tender called by the Arrecife City Council. The award, including taxes, amounts to the amount of 59,640 euros.
The Department of Roads and Works, to which the Municipal Public Lighting Service is attached, will be responsible for monitoring and executing these four new charging points, the first public access points in the capital of Lanzarote, an island declared a Biosphere Reserve since 1993. The successful bidder has four months to complete the work.
The Government group led by Astrid Pérez has been activating, since taking office last June, the implementation of systems with fewer CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Within these measures, the City Council is in the process of awarding eight vehicles powered by electric energy, which will be destined to the Municipal Mobile Park.
Recently, the Arrecife City Council signed an agreement with the Cabildo of Lanzarote for the implementation in Arrecife of alternative energy systems and to work on the energy efficiency of the public lighting network, incorporating, in those viable cases, new photovoltaic energy plants on the roofs of municipal public buildings, such as the one that already exists on the roof of the Arrecife City Hall building.
Roberto Herbón, who recently visited with the mayor Astrid Pérez, one of the places where one of these four charging points will be located, has reported that the locations for these facilities will be in Titerroy, next to the Youth Center and the Health Center; in Valterra, in the annexes of the Health Center, and in the center of Arrecife, in the vicinity of the main building of the Arrecife City Council and in the future building that will house the new headquarters of the Local Police of Arrecife, in the original dependencies of the Arrecife Courts, in Vargas Street.
