Photo: Bardak / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (2011 archive; illustrative charging stations)
Israel’s National Council for Planning and Building has advanced a plan to make it easier to install fast electric-vehicle chargers at gas stations, according to Yeshiva World News and Maariv. The proposed changes still need cabinet approval before taking effect.
The council voted Tuesday to send the government an update to TAMA 18, the national master plan for fueling stations. The proposal aims to expand charging infrastructure at both existing and new stations, the outlets reported.
Stations permitted to operate at least five fast-charging points would be eligible for up to 100 additional square meters of building rights for electrical rooms, transformer rooms and switching equipment. The plan would also allow such equipment on enclosed plots within highway interchanges.
Covered waiting areas would give drivers a place to sit outside their vehicles while charging. Those areas could operate on their own or alongside a station’s existing shops, according to the reports.
A proposed licensing change would exempt plans and permits dealing only with electric charging points, including additions to existing gas stations, from the requirement to submit a hydrological-environmental report.
Separately, the council advanced an amendment to another national plan for public comments and objections. That proposal would permit larger energy-storage facilities at fueling-station compounds to support charging infrastructure. It is a separate planning process, not a completed approval.
The changes described in the reports are proposed planning measures, not rules already in force. Neither report establishes a date when new chargers would open at individual stations.
JBizNews Desk | Jerusalem
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