Project Aim
Recently, the EU Funded Project
PROMETEUS was launched in Malta. PROMETEUS
aims to promote e-mobility through the analysis, exchange of knowledge and
adoption of best practices which shall lead to the compilation of specific
Action Plans that will implement and deploy specific electromobility measures
at the respective national and regional level by the participating partners.
More specifically, the project shall
carry out a joint analysis of e-mobility approaches in the different partners’
regions, highlighting the specific territorial contexts and the respective
demand (tourism, urban areas, high vehicle ownership) for electric vehicles. The
project will also identify valuable experiences and practices adopted as part
of local and regional measures which aim at promoting e-mobility in the
respective municipalities and regions.
These ongoing practices shall be further investigated through the
project by means of activities such as study visits and thematic workshops
which the project partners shall participate in during the course of the
project lifetime.
Through the PROMETEUS Project, based
on the findings of the analysis referred to above, the project partners will then
draw up specific e-mobility action plans which are to be integrated in the
policy instruments identified in each participating region. Where Action Plans already exist, these shall
be updated and upgraded through the lessons learnt from Phase I of this
project. The Action Plans to be compiled by the project partners in the first
phase shall be implemented in the second phase of the project lifetime. To ensure a high-standard and consistent
implementation of activities, a shared monitoring system will be designed and
implemented to measure the effectiveness of Action Plans being deployed by each
partner. By adopting this system, transfer of knowledge and exchange of good
practices will be guaranteed both within the partnership, through joint project
activities, and outside of it, through dissemination activities aimed at the
general public and relevant stakeholders.
Project Partners
The project partners for this
project are:
- Transport Malta (Malta), involved
as the Lead Partner;
- Lazio Region (Italy);
- General Directorate of Industry
and Competitiveness of Castillia y Leon (Spain);
- Presov Self Governing Region
(Slovakia);
- Regional Government of Carinthia
(Austria);
- And Poliedra-Politecnico di
Milano (Italy), involved as the Advisory Partner.
Deliverables and Expected Results
Based on the knowledge gathering
exercises – to be done through site visits, peer-to-peer meetings, workshops,
etc. – TM will compile:
- An updated
Action Plan that will help to better promote and continue to introduce eletromobility
into the Maltese Islands
Benefits from Project
PROMETEUS will enable Transport
Malta, particularly the Malta National Electromobility Platform (MNEP), to
learn from the experiences of the other partners, as well as share its own
experiences with the other partners. Through the experiences learned from the
other partners, Transport Malta, through the MNEP Unit, will be able to continue
to introduce and integrate the concept of Electromobility into the Maltese
Islands, through the use of other, already proven, methods. This will also help
with any schemes already set up and also in the long run, such as inclusion of
certain measures, learned through this project, into future projects.
Meetings
A two-day kick off meeting held
in Malta was the first joint-activity in which all partners had the opportunity
to share their experiences and learn from practices being implemented in other
regions. During the two-day
meeting, delegates visited several
e-mobility infrastructure being operated in Malta, including the Photovoltaic Farm installed at Transport
Malta’s head office which (apart from contributing to the reduction of the
building’s carbon footprint) offsets the electricity required to charge the
13-electric vehicle fleet owned and operated by the transport authority. The
fleet includes a variety of vehicles; from crew vans used by maintenance crew
and Enforcement Officers, M1 vehicles used by couriers and L7e quadricycles
used by employees to attend meetings and other on-the-job duties. This infrastructure has contributed towards
the reduction of 20 tonnes of CO2 per annum.
The delegates were also shown the
three solar car-charging stations which have been installed in public parking
spaces in Malta and which produce direct sun-to-car energy. The three stations are covered in PV panels
thus generating solar energy on site which is in turn stored in on-site
Lithium-ion batteries. Cars use electricity
from the stored energy to re-charge the car battery, thus achieving full carbon
neutral transport. The stations have
been in operation for the past two years and provide direct solar energy for
over 3000 charging events/annum.
Duration of the Project
The project beganin January 2017
and is expected to be completed by June 2021.
Financing
The project has a budget of €1.4
million which is shared between the partners and is co-financed by the INTERREG
Europe funding programme at an 85% funding rate.
For more information please
follow the links:
https://www.interregeurope.eu/prometeus/