Client Background
Lancaster Morecambe College offers part-time and full-time courses to school leavers and adult learners, their curriculum is made up of technical and creative courses to aid their student’s progression into employment. Alongside their campus-based courses, the college offers apprenticeships in 30 different sectors. The college is part of the CPC, a framework designed to connect educational establishments to installers of various equipment, in this instance the college had a need for electric vehicle chargers to offer charging sessions to their staff, students and visitors.
The Challenge
Alongside the active charging pedestals, the college requested the installation of an electric vehicle training board to showcase to their electrical students how both single and three-phase chargers are wired. The board needed to show the key elements of an EV installation so that students could view a non-live system and be hands-on with their learning. A visual aide such as a training board would assist their learning in wiring the chargers correctly and learning how to safely install vehicle charging points. The live chargers which would service the college’s car park needed to have a back management portal that would allow the units to be monitored remotely. This made Rolec Quantum chargers the preferred charger as they are robust for the installation location and offered a Rolec partnered back office to monitor charging sessions, charger use, payments and more.
What UCS Renewables Did
Working alongside the college, UCS Renewables were able to design and install a training board to feature a distribution board, generation meter, isolation switches, and two Rolec chargers: one 7kW (single phase) and the second 22kw (three phases).
We installed two dual Rolec Quantum chargers in the college’s car park, the chargers featured a QR code on each socket to allow users to scan to install an app. These chargers are now visible to staff, students and visitors.
