LIVE: Tipperary shopping centre to be equipped with new fast electric vehicle chargers
Thurles Shopping Centre is one of 20 to be included in the partnership.
ePower is to supply over 20 shopping centres across 14 counties nationwide, including Tipperary, with high speed EV charging points, following a partnership agreement with Lanthorn, which manages a portfolio of over €1.6bn of property throughout Ireland.
Rollout will begin in 2025, and the sites where chargers will be installed include the Thurles Shopping Centre, as well as centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway, and busy urban areas like Navan, Dundalk, Mullingar, Athlone, Maynooth, Portlaoise and Kilkenny. ePower is working closely with Lanthorn in association with their project managers, KSNPM.
ePower has been selected following a competitive process, which took into account the company’s ability to offer high speed charging facilities, tailored specifically to each site, and crucially, the assurance that the sites would be maintained and serviced by ePower’s 24/7 help desk, field engineering and remote management.
Commenting on the development, John O’Keeffe, CEO of ePower said: “We’re very proud to be part of the drive towards making electric vehicles a better choice for consumers. The rollout and delivery of chargers, be it through public or private partnerships, is key to this. Through this partnership with Lanthorn, ePower plans to have super-fast chargers installed at shopping centres around Ireland, from Donegal to Cork and many places in between, it’s a great expansion for us in what’s been a hugely successful year of growth.”
It’s been a busy year for ePower; the company recently joined forces with Dublin’s local authorities to bring online up to 200 fast chargers across the region in 2025. The initial phase of the project will see ePower’s high speed chargers installed at more than 40 Dublin locations across the four Dublin local authorities. The company also won six of 17 government contracts for the rollout of new high-speed electric car charging hubs across Ireland due to be operational by the end of 2025.