A new charging facility for electric buses at a Dublin Bus depot will be "fully operational this week", the company has said.
The facility in Summerhill will have the capacity to recharge 56 buses and will be one of two hubs for the new Dublin Bus electric fleet.
The second hub will be in Phibsborough and is due to be completed by the end of the year. It will have a capacity to recharge 80 buses.
It comes as RTÉ’s Prime Time reported earlier this month that dozens of zero-emission electric buses ordered by the National Transport Authority 18 months ago are not yet in service, partly due to delays in installing charging infrastructure at the two bus depots.
The NTA ordered 120 electric buses in June 2022, as part of a framework to provide 800 zero-emission buses for Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann over five years. Of the 120 buses ordered, 100 were for Dublin Bus and 20 were for Bus Éireann.
In June 2022, at the launch of a key part of the plan to decarbonise the country's public transport fleet, Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan said: "This is the future, electrifying everything in transport, cutting out the carbon."
Speaking at the unveiling facility in Summerhill today, Mr Ryan said: "This change is being driven by electricity as we begin to see the introduction of electric buses on the streets of our capital and then our other cities and towns. This is going to be transformative for our public transport network.
"It’s going to make our air cleaner and our streets quieter, providing quality and reliable buses for people, and helping us to meet our climate targets for the capital city, and for the country."
Dublin Bus is aiming that by 2032, over 85% of its fleet is expected to be zero-emission.
