Work to install electric vehicle charging points on another dozen streets in Norwich will begin next week.
Twenty-two new charge points will begin to be installed from Monday (November 25), with work continuing until February next year.
The latest work is part of Norfolk County Council's 2021 strategy to encourage more people to drive electric vehicles.
The Conservative-controlled council signed a deal with Blink Charging UK in 2023 to install the charging points across Norwich.
Twenty-four charge points have been installed in city streets so far and the next phase will see them installed in these streets:
Fishergate (2), Patteson Road (1), Starling Road (2), Wingfield Road (1) Calvert Street (2), St Mary's Plain (4), Whitehall Road (2), Stafford Street (1), Branford Road (2), Heigham Street (2), Charles Square (1) and Dolphin Grove (2).
People living in the streets where new chargers are being installed will get notification of the installation dates, and a formal public information notice will be published before work gets under way.
Council leaders say almost 200 vehicles have been charged in the first four months of operation since the first charge points went live.
Graham Plant, County Hall's cabinet member for highways, infrastructure and transport said: "We are ambitious for a greener and cleaner future for Norfolk and having the right infrastructure in place is vital for helping people make the move to an electric vehicle.
"It’s projects like this that ensure Norfolk is fit for the future and our public consultation has shown that having access to public chargers near to where people live is more important than provision elsewhere on the network, particularly for those residents that did not have their own private driveways.”
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Of the chargers which have already been installed 19 are connected and available for use.
The council says 3,086 kWh of power has been used, equating to 10,801 miles, with 2,607,372 Kg of CO2 saved.
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The streets which already have operational charge points are:
Hobart Square (1), Hall Road (1), Grove Road (4), Onley Street (1), Bury Street (2), Telegraph Lane (4), Walpole Street (4), Gloucester Street (1) and Dereham Road (1).
Charge points have been installed in Earlham Road (2), Durham Street (2) and Portersfield Road (1), but have yet to go live.
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