POWERING YOUR COMMUNITY'S FUTURE: GETTING READY FOR WHAT’S NEXT

With the push towards a more sustainable and eco-friendly society, many cities and towns are looking for ways to encourage electric vehicles (EV) in their community and to do their bit towards reducing their community's carbon emissions.

Reducing Carbon Emissions

Some ways a council can reduce its carbon footprint include installing solar and battery storage on community buildings, rolling out electric fleets for council vehicles or installing public EV charging stations.

Council leadership can also play a big part in encouraging the public, homeowners and business owners to get on board by providing education on solar and energy storage, electrification, and electric vehicle technology – and providing or promoting incentives to support this take-up.

Installing Infrastructure For The Future

However, the solution isn't limited to shifting people to buying EV, there must be adequate infrastructure in place to support them.

This includes encouraging people to install an EV charger in their home and supporting local businesses to install public charging stations, whether AC

Stations, like FIMER's FLEXA AC Wallbox or Station, or fast DC Charging stations like FIMER's ELECTRA DC Station.

Having this infrastructure in every city (regardless of its size) in Australia will help alleviate people's range anxiety – so they have the confidence to go wherever they need and not run out of charge.

Installation and management of an EV charger is straightforward. The main consideration is to ensure that the related electrical infrastructure has sufficient capacity to provide the necessary power.

Charging The Future

There are specialist consultants and integrators that can help councils, businesses and homeowners discuss their charging requirements, not only to choose the right EV charger, but also the electrical distribution infrastructure needed to power the charger – as this can be a significant cost.

There are also many Federal and State Government initiatives and grants available to provide financial support for investing in installing an EV charger or other electrification and energy efficiency projects.

Another way councils can help drive this electrification change forward is to assist and encourage local community groups to help push this change with the public.

The Technology In Practise

An example of this is in Narrabri, New South Wales, when Geni.Energy – a not-for-profit organisation championing clean energy living within the Narrabri community – applied to win a FIMER FLEXA AC wallbox charging station for their community and was successful.

FIMER was proud to support not-forprofit organisations looking to make the world a greener place.

The charger was launched officially in May 2023 and is the second public EV charging station available for members of the public to use in the area.

To coincide with the launch, Geni.Energy organised the Solar Citizens Electric Ute Roadshow to visit Narrabri. Their goal is to drive around regional Australia, showcasing the benefits of electric vehicles and the power of electrification.

FIMER is one of the largest solar manufacturers globally and manufactures its string inverters and electric vehicle chargers in Italy.

Since 2017, FIMER has over 55,000 units installed worldwide and launched its electric vehicle charger range in Australia in 2022.

Let the energy drive you with FIMER’s charging solutions

Since 2017, we have supplied more than 54,000 charging stations around the world and partnered with the main players in the industry. We have developed AC and DC charging platforms designed to meet the diverse needs of users, who are seeking solutions for private, public and commercial use.

Our FIMER FLEXA AC Wallbox, FIMER FLEXA AC Station and FIMER ELECTRA (Fast) DC Station, are all easy to install and will provide an efficient, reliable and safe charge every time. Learn more: fimer.com/charging-electric-vehicles