Wind farms to help fuel green cars

A firm generating power from wind farms off the north Kent coast is to install electric vehicle (EV) charging points across a district.

Swedish company Vattenfall will be behind 12 EV points installed across the Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay areas.

The power will be generated from its Kent Flats and Kentish Flats Extension wind farms, sited off the coast of Whitstable and Herne Bay.

The new charging points follow a deal with Canterbury City Council signed last month.

Working with BMM Energy Solutions, Vattenfall will start installation of its InCharge technology in a number of city centre car parks this month.

Cllr Simon Cook, leader of Canterbury City Council and chairman of its policy and resources committee, said: “The installation of these first EV charging points is an important first step in the journey to provide the infrastructure that will deliver cleaner air for the district.

“They were one of a raft of measures contained in the air quality action plan approved by councillors at the end of last year.”

Anthony Hinde, Vattenfall’s managing director for InCharge in the UK, said: “It’s great to forge this partnership with Canterbury City Council especially as the power supplied to the sockets will be ‘sourced’ from Vattenfall’s British wind farms including those off the Kent coast.

“This is an important step in helping people live free from fossil fuels.”