Part 2: Electric Vehicles: Charging Chapter 2: Policy background Section 13: Information about public charging points
Section 13 provides a power for the Secretary of State to make regulations which address the lack of consistency in the content and format of publicly available information on public charging points. It is currently open to each charge point operator to decide what information it makes available in relation to its charge points. The Secretary of State will be able to make regulations to place an obligation on charge point operators to make certain types of information (including real-time data comprising a live feed of current availability) publicly available in an open and transparent format – this data could be used by third party app developers for example to provide certainty to the consumer.