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At fast charging stations for electric cars, there is often a queue to charge and many do not have the opportunity to charge the electric car where they live.
Today, the government is proposing changes to the laws that apply to housing associations and co-owners. The changes give those who live there the right to establish charging points for electric and hybrid cars.
– We legislate that the owner of a unit in a housing association has the right to establish a charging point, even in cases where the majority of the housing association is against it, says the Minister of Local Government and Modernization, Nikolai Astrup .
The Minister of Local Government and Modernization, Nikolai Astrup, today presents a bill that can force housing associations to jointly take the bill of improvements of electrical networks and new infrastructure to be able to charge in shared garages.
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The individual must cover the costs of the charging box and pay for the electricity he uses.
– Participants without an electric car may have to cover the housing association’s power grid upgrade costs, he says.
– Denied people without objective reason
Christina Bu is the leader of the electric car association. She says the association has many examples of people who are denied installing electric car chargers in the garage where they live.
– We have received a lot of inquiries from people who have an electric car or who want to buy an electric car, but cannot configure the charge in their home association, he says.
Bu says denials have often been based on accusations of undocumented people, such as that the costs have been too high or the risk of fire.
– The board or the housing association can no longer do this, now they have to document it if they are going to reject the right, he says.
Each individual resident must pay for the charging box and the electricity they use, but the new rules allow residents with fossil cars or no car to share the bill for upgrading the electrical grid and other infrastructure.
Co-owners and residents in housing associations receive equal rules
– We have members of housing associations who have been denied the installation of a charging point for no objective reason, says Christina Bu from the Norwegian Association of Electric Cars. She urges the Storting politicians to consider the bill as soon as possible.
Photo: Johan B. Sættem
It is the Housing Association Law that is proposed to be modified in a way that allows those who live there to establish charging points for electric cars and rechargeable hybrids. The Homeowners Section Law is also amended and gives co-owned section owners the same rights as unit owners in housing associations.
The change in the law may have an impact on approx. 500,000 sections of owners in 63,000 co-owners and just under 360,000 housing association homes in 8,700 housing associations.
The background to the change in the law is that there has been a sharp increase in the number of electric cars at the same time that there have been few charging points where people live. It has been a practical problem in daily life for many.
It can be entered from New Years at the earliest.
It is the Storting’s local government and administration committee that will now examine the case.
Karin Andersen from the Socialist Left Party is the committee leader.
She says the committee has a lot on the table going forward, but that the matter will be dealt with quickly as advice, provided the government has not set obstacles.
– If this bill comes quickly now and has no drawbacks, then it is very convenient that it be resolved quickly, says Andersen.
She says that if the proposal is good, there may be hope to complete it before the turn of the year. Therefore, it can probably take effect at the earliest as of January 1, 2021.
