With 245,557 residents (INE 2025), Elche is the second city of the province and of the Valencian Community, and it earns its living the old-fashioned way. This is the footwear capital of Spain: the largest shoe-manufacturing cluster in the country, built on family firms and names that ended up travelling far beyond the Baix Vinalopó — Pikolinos, Panama Jack, Mustang. Factories, pattern-makers, tanneries and warehouses ring the city, which means a great many of the vehicles that need charging here are not second cars for the beach but the van, the estate and the company saloon of a working household.
The symbol of the town is not a stretch of sand. It is the Palmeral, the palm grove that wraps around the old centre and carries UNESCO World Heritage status — hundreds of thousands of palms planted in irrigated orchards, right up against the streets. Around them, Elche is largely a city of flats, and a flat in Spain usually means a numbered space in a communal garage. That is our most common city job: an individual supply line run from your meter down to your bay, so the electricity for the car appears on your bill and on nobody else's.
Then there is the other Elche, the one visitors rarely register. The municipal territory is enormous and scattered across it are around thirty outlying districts, the partidas of the Camp d'Elx: thousands of families living in country houses, farmhouses and villas with a gate, a yard and their own garage. As wallbox territory goes, it is close to ideal — the parking is private, the cable run is usually short, and nobody has to be asked for permission. Add roughly 2,900 to 3,000 hours of sun a year in a notably dry climate and a charger that follows solar surplus becomes the obvious pairing rather than a luxury.
Elche also matters to anyone reading this in English for a very practical reason: Alicante-Elche airport stands inside the municipality, at El Altet. Nearly every foreign owner on the Costa Blanca lands on Elche soil before they reach their own front door. And the town has its own coast to go with it — Arenales del Sol, La Marina and El Altet are urbanisations with a genuinely international population, where a connected charger you can look in on from another country earns its keep. Beside the runway, the Parque Empresarial de Torrellano gathers the logistics operators, hotels and business parks that keep asking us about fleet charging.
The administration is the part we take off your hands. The distribution network here belongs to i-DE, of the Iberdrola group — worth saying plainly, because in neighbouring Crevillent the grid is run by the town's own electricity cooperative, Grupo Enercoop, and not by Iberdrola at all. In Elche it is i-DE. The work itself follows the Spanish wiring regulations (REBT) and instruction ITC-BT-52: certified chargers, an electrical installation certificate (boletín/CIE) and registration with Industria of the Generalitat Valenciana. In a communal garage, Article 17.5 of the Horizontal Property Act means prior written notice only — there is no vote to win.
Elche is one town on a much longer list: the main page sets out how we install charging points across the province, the paperwork each job involves and every other area we cover.
Camp Country houses and villas
Around thirty outlying districts of private plots and gates: the easiest wallbox jobs in the province, and the shortest cable runs.
City Communal garage spaces
Flats with a numbered bay: an individual line to your space and written notice under Article 17.5, no AGM vote.
Sun Charging on surplus
A dry climate with some 2,900-3,000 hours of sun a year, so panels and a surplus-aware charger pay off out in the campo.
Paper CIE and Industria (GVA)
Electrical certificate plus registration with Industria of the Generalitat Valenciana; the distributor in Elche is i-DE.