EV Charge Points

Summary

A request for detailed data on EV charge points installed by public bodies was partially fulfilled, with the authority disclosing total procurement costs, annual revenue, and maintenance records while citing data accessibility and technical limitations for withholding specific per-unit revenue and usage rankings.

Key Facts

• Manx Utilities has spent £598,943.39 on the procurement of hardware and installations for EV charge points.
• Total revenue from charge points increased from £22,573.64 in 2021-22 to £80,982.60 in 2023-24.
• The most used charge point is located at the Sea Terminal, while the least used is at the Bungalow.
• All maintenance and repairs listed were carried out under warranty at no cost to Manx Utilities.
• Specific revenue and usage data for individual charge points could not be provided due to limitations in the third-party Podpoint database.

Data Disclosed

• £598,943.39
• 2021-22
• £22,573.64
• 2022-23
• £43,806.65
• 2023-24
• £80,982.60
• Sea Terminal
• Bungalow
• Dec-22
• Mar-23
• May-23
• Aug-23
• Feb-23
• Sep-22
• Apr-23
• Dec-21
• Nov-21
• Jan-23
• Jun-23
• Jul-23
• Nov-23
• Aug-23

Exemptions Cited

• Section 20 of the Act (Information reasonably accessible)
• Section 11(3)a of the Act (Information not held or cannot be found after reasonable steps)

Original Request

Please provide: A list of all (EV) charge points that have been installed by IOM Gov / MUA / any other public body, the location and the total costs of procurement of hardware and installations to date. Please provide the details of each charge point revenue received and a total revenue received to date broken down in to financial years. Please provide a league table of the most used to least used charge point. Please provide a list of all cases of when charge points have required maintenance and/or repair and what the annual costs of maintenance is for the charge points. Provide how many parking spaces that were previously not charge points, have been lost as a result of each new charge point and where they are.

Data Tables (2)

Full Response Text

Manx Utilities PO Box 177, Douglas Isle of Man, IM99 1PS

e: enquiries@manxutilities.im t: 01624 687687 www.manxutilities.im

Our ref: 3802557 9 May 2024

Dear ###

We write further to your request, received 15 April 2024, which states:

"Please provide:

A list of all (EV) charge points that have been installed by IOM Gov / MUA / any other public body, the location and the total costs of procurement of hardware and installations to date.

Please provide the details of each charge point revenue received and a total revenue received to date broken down in to financial years

Please provide a league table of the most used to least used charge point.

Please provide a list of all cases of when charge points have required maintenance and/or repair and what the annual costs of maintenance is for the charge points.

Provide how many parking spaces that were previously not charge points, have been lost as a result of each new charge point and where they are."

Our response to your request is as follows: I have enclosed copies of the information that is being released to you.

A list of all (EV) charge points that have been installed by IOM Gov / MUA / any other public body, the location and the total costs of procurement of hardware and installations to date.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 20 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you, whether free of charge or on payment of a fee.

The location of all charge points is already publically available via the pod-point on our website https://www.manxutilities.im/your-home/electricity/electric-vehicles/

To date, Manx Utilities has been spent £598,943.39 on the procurement of hardware and installations.

Please provide the details of each charge point revenue received and a total revenue received to date broken down in to financial years.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance Manx Utilities does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find the revenue received for each charging point. This is in line with Section 11(3)a of the Act, as the Podpoint database is not hosted on the Manx Utilities infrastructure and has various, but limited, enquiry functions that allow us to view or extract data.

However to provide some assistance we have been able to extract the total revenue received, which is as follows: • 2021-22, £22,573.64 • 2022-23, £43,806.65 • 2023-24, £80,982.60

Please provide a league table of the most used to least used charge point.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, provide the full information that you have requested. This is in line with Section 11(3)a of the Act however, to provide some assistance we can advise that the most used charge point is at the Sea Terminal and the least used charge point is at the Bungalow.

Please provide a list of all cases of when charge points have required maintenance and/or repair and what the annual costs of maintenance is for the charge points.

The list below shows all cases of when maintenance and/or repair has been undertaken to the charge points. To date, maintenance and repair has been carried out under warranty, at no cost to the Manx Utilities.

UNIT DATE ACTION Clay-Zara Dec-22 Repair Clay-Zara Mar-23 Repair Cora-Duke May-23 Repair Enzo-Gina Aug-23 Repair Erin-Faye Mar-23 Repair Finn-Earl Feb-23 Repair Fran-Dane Sep-22 Repair Fran-Dane Apr-23 Repair Iris-Zara Dec-21 Repair Jess-Nash Dec-22 Repair Joye-Witt Nov-21 Repair Joye-Witt Feb-22 Repair Joye-Witt Apr-22 Repair Joye-Witt Jan-23 Repair Joye-Witt Apr-22 Repair

Joye-Witt Sep-23 Repair Myla-Ruth Jun-23 Repair Myla-Ruth Jul-23 Repair Noah-Scot Jul-23 Repair Omar-Arlo Jan-23 Repair Pria-Bess Dec-22 Repair Reno-Gina Nov-23 Repair Scot-Dean Nov-22 Repair Stan-Glen Dec-21 Repair Todd-Bart Jun-23 Repair Todd-Bart Jul-23 Repair Todd-Bart Jul-23 Repair Todd-Bart Aug-23 Repair

Provide how many parking spaces that were previously not charge points, have been lost as a result of each new charge point and where they are.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, under section 20 of the Act, we are not required to provide information in response to a request if it is already reasonably accessible to you, whether free of charge or on payment of a fee. The location of all charge points is already publically available via the pod-point on our website https://www.manxutilities.im/your-home/electricity/electric-vehicles/.

Please note that no parking space was previously a charge point. However to provide further relevant detail, the parking spaces at Douglas Police Headquarters and Nobles Hospital were newly constructed spaces, without the loss of existing parking.

Please quote the reference number 3802557 in any future communications.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your freedom of information request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by completing a complaint form and submitting it electronically or by delivery/post.

An electronic version of our complaint form can be found by going to our website at https://services.gov.im/freedom-of-information/Review . If you would like a paper version of our complaint form to be sent to you by post, please contact me and I will be happy to arrange for this. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made as soon as practicable. We will respond as soon as the review has been concluded.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner for a decision on;

1. Whether we have responded to your request for information in accordance with Part 2 of the Freedom of Information Act 2015; or
2. Whether we are justified in refusing to give you the information requested.
   In response to an application for review, the Information Commissioner may, at any time, attempt to resolve a matter by negotiation, conciliation, mediation or another form of alternative dispute resolution and will have regard to any outcome of this in making any subsequent decision. More detailed information on your right to a review can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website at www.inforights.im. Should you have any queries concerning this letter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Further information about freedom of information requests can be found at www.gov.im/foi.

I will now close your request as of this date.