Guangzhou stipulates that electric vehicle charging facilities need to be equipped with monitoring systems, and if they do not cooperate or will be cut off

Nandu News Reporter Xia Jiawen On December 30, the 168th executive meeting of the 15th Municipal Government deliberated and passed the "Guangzhou Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Safety Management Measures" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures").

In recent years, electric vehicles in Guangzhou have developed rapidly. By the end of November, the number of pure electric vehicles in Guangzhou had exceeded 286,000. At the same time, the number of charging facilities in Guangzhou has surged, and by the end of November, the number of public and private charging piles in the city reached 65,200 units.

In view of the problems of outstanding safety hazards such as aging equipment, lack of maintenance, and operation with diseases in some charging facilities, the Measures further clarify the responsibilities and supervision methods of safety supervision.

Whoever has the right to operate the ownership belongs to the security responsibility

The "Measures" make it clear that the safety management of charging facilities is jointly supervised by territory and industry (field), with the basic principles of "who owns the ownership (management right) and who belongs to the responsibility" and "safety self-inspection, self-elimination of hidden dangers, and self-responsibility". The main responsibility for the safety of public and private charging facilities shall be jointly borne by the owner and the operating enterprise (legal person unit, group), and its safety supervision work shall be the responsibility of the regional government and relevant competent departments in accordance with the division of labor; the main responsibility for the safety of self-use charging facilities shall be borne by its owner. Each district government should include the charging facilities within its jurisdiction into the grid management scope of the town government (street office, park management committee) and village (neighborhood) committee.

The construction and operation of charging facilities need to be equipped with a charging monitoring system

The Measures point out that where the owner of a public or private charging facility entrusts the operation of the public or private charging facility to a third party (including but not limited to an operating enterprise or property management enterprise), it must sign a safety production management agreement. Charging facility owners and operating enterprises (legal person units, groups) should strengthen the management of charging vehicles, and strictly prohibit the occupants in the car during charging; they must ensure that the equipment such as power distribution, charging, monitoring, fire protection, and lightning protection are intact to ensure that the charging facilities are in a normal state; and the waste charging facilities that cannot provide charging services should be cleaned up in a timely manner.

The "Measures" require that public and private charging facility operating enterprises (legal person units, groups) should carry out weekly safety inspections of charging facilities, and the weekly inspection records should be kept for at least one annual cycle; monthly self-inspection of charging facilities should be carried out, and monthly safety self-inspection reports should be kept for at least two annual cycles.

The "Measures" also proposes that public and private charging facilities construction or operation enterprises establish a complete charging monitoring and video security monitoring system. The charging monitoring system must have data storage and management functions, and must also realize the monitoring of the operation of charging facilities and the charging process, and alarm should be carried out when abnormal conditions that endanger charging safety (such as abnormal insulation monitoring, battery temperature is too high, voltage is too high, current is too large, etc.). Enterprises (legal person units, groups) that construct or operate public and special charging facilities shall promptly carry out power outages and inspections of charging equipment.

Public and private charging facility operating enterprises (legal person units, groups) must enter the operation data of public and private charging facilities into the intelligent management platform of charging facilities in Guangzhou, and ensure the continuity and authenticity of the data. The intelligent management platform of charging facilities in Guangzhou shall cooperate with the municipal industry and information technology department to use the above data to carry out safety inspections of charging facilities in the city.

Operating enterprises that refuse to rectify or are blackouted

The Measures clarify the safety supervision mechanism for charging facilities. The municipal department of industry and information technology organizes third-party professional and technical institutions to conduct safety spot checks on the city's public and private charging facilities from time to time, and notifies the relevant district governments and competent departments of the inspection results in writing, and the relevant district governments and competent departments shall supervise and urge the main body responsible for the safety of charging facilities to rectify the safety problems found in the inspection results within a time limit.

For public and private charging facility operating enterprises (legal person units, groups) that fail to correctly perform the safety work duties of these Measures, the district government to which they belong and the relevant competent departments are to conduct warning reminders, meet and talk with their relevant responsible persons, and supervise the implementation of rectification responsibilities. For public and private charging facility operators (legal person units, groups) that have hidden dangers of major accidents or have not carried out rectification within the prescribed time limit, the district governments shall make a decision to stop using the charging facilities involved. For those who refuse to implement the decision to stop using, each district government may notify the relevant units to stop power supply to the charging facility station involved and force them to perform the decision. The notice shall be in writing, and the relevant units shall cooperate.

In addition, the public can report safety hazards and illegal acts related to charging facilities by calling the complaint telephone number "12345" and other means.

Explanation of terms

Charging facilities referred to in the "Measures" refer to all kinds of centralized charging and replacement power stations and decentralized charging piles, including charging station ground structures, charging stations (piles), etc., and related supporting facilities for access to higher-level power supplies and monitoring systems. Charging facilities are divided into public, private and self-use charging facilities according to the type of construction and the nature of use.

Among them, public charging facilities refer to charging and replacing facilities that are open to the public and provide charging and replacing services for social vehicles; special charging facilities refer to charging facilities that provide charging services for electric vehicles of a legal entity and its employees, as well as charging and replacing facilities that provide charging services for electric vehicles of all owners in residential areas; self-use charging facilities refer to charging facilities that provide charging services for electric vehicles of a private user.