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Blaby District Council says the installation forms part of a wider programme being delivered through the Green Living Leicestershire Partnership, involving all seven district and borough councils in the county. Similar charging hubs are planned elsewhere in Leicestershire.
The project is supported by Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding and pooled business-rates funding. Construction at Enderby is expected to take around five weeks.
The published charger rating appears to contain a unit error
The council communication describes the equipment as four “11kWh chargers”. The wording appears intended to mean 11 kW chargers, which would be consistent with a common AC destination-charging rating. However, no charger manufacturer, model or detailed specification has been published.
An earlier Blaby District Council announcement from 2023 referred to plans for 12 EV chargers at Enderby Leisure Centre. The latest construction update refers to four chargers.
How much of the charging will come from solar is not stated
The current announcement says the chargers will be powered by the solar canopy and describes solar energy as a key power source for the project. What it does not provide is the information needed to understand that relationship technically.
No photovoltaic array capacity, grid import limit, battery-storage provision or energy-management strategy has been disclosed. Without those figures, it is not possible to determine how much charging demand could be supplied directly by the canopy, how often grid electricity will be required, or how the building and chargers will share available power.
That distinction matters because a solar canopy can reduce grid energy use and support daytime charging without necessarily making a charging site independent of the grid.
A useful project once the specification is published
The Enderby scheme has the potential to become a useful example of combining destination charging, on-site generation and a public leisure facility. For specifiers and installers, however, the most useful details are still missing.
The charger rating should be confirmed, alongside the number of charging connections, solar-array capacity, grid arrangement, load management method, charger manufacturer, charge point operator and accessibility provision.
Blaby District Council has also said the charging price has not yet been decided. Those additional details will determine whether the project becomes a repeatable technical model for the other Leicestershire locations or simply a useful local charging installation.
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