Some 37,449 people live in Villajoyosa according to the 2025 INE figures, and the town carries responsibilities that reach well beyond its own street map: it is the seat of the comarcal courts and of the hospital that serves the whole Marina Baixa. What visitors remember, though, is the wall of brightly painted houses standing directly over the water at the mouth of the river. Tradition in la Vila says they were painted in those blues, ochres and reds so that a fisherman coming home could pick out his own front door from a long way out to sea. The fishing port below them is not scenery either — the boats still go out, and the auction still runs when they come back.
Then there is the chocolate. Villajoyosa has been making it since the cocoa arrived by boat, and it still does: Valor, Clavileño and Pérez all have their roots here, and the Valor museum draws people into town on days when nobody is thinking about the beach. It is the only food cluster of its kind in the province, and for us it matters for a practical reason. Where there is industry there is distribution, and where there is distribution there are vans doing the same predictable rounds every day and coming back to the same yard every night — which is the exact profile that makes an electric fleet cheaper to run than a diesel one, provided the charging happens on your own premises rather than at a public post.
Housing here comes in three quite distinct shapes, and each one asks a different question of an installer. The old town is a maze of narrow, steeply pitched streets where almost nobody has a garage door. The blocks behind the beaches, along the Torres and Paraíso fronts, are communal-garage territory. And the districts and urbanisations spreading inland and up the hillsides — the part of Villajoyosa that has grown most in recent years — are villas and townhouses with a gate, a bit of ground and the car standing within a few metres of the consumer unit. That last group is where home charging asks almost nothing of anybody.
Getting about is a mix of old and new. The TRAM light rail stops in the town and runs down to Alicante and up to Benidorm, which is useful and, for most families, not the whole answer; the AP-7 and the N-332 carry everything else, from the commute to the school run to the trip to the hospital. If the car is going to be part of daily life anyway, the cheapest and least dramatic place to fill it is the wall it is parked next to.
One more thing shapes every job we do here, and it is invisible: salt. On the front line and on the exposed slopes, sea air works on outdoor electrics year after year. We build that in from the first drawing — IP-rated housings, marine-grade fixings, an aspect the wind misses — and the work is done to the REBT and ITC-BT-52, then signed off with the electrical installation certificate (boletín/CIE) and lodged with Industria at the Generalitat Valenciana. Your job is to choose a charger. The paperwork is ours.
Villajoyosa is one of the towns we know best in the Marina Baixa, though the van covers a good deal more ground than that. Here is the full picture of our work on EV charging points across the Costa Blanca.
Network The grid here belongs to i-DE
Distribution in Villajoyosa is i-DE, part of the Iberdrola group. Supply checks, a change of contracted power, anything they have to authorise: we file it and chase it, and you hear about it only when it is done.
Papers Certificate lodged, not promised
Wired to the REBT and ITC-BT-52, then signed off with the electrical installation certificate (CIE) and lodged with Industria at the Generalitat Valenciana. Neither one is a line that appears on the bill afterwards; they sit in the quoted price.
Sea air Built for salt
An IP-rated housing, marine-grade bolts and a wall the prevailing breeze misses. On the beach fronts and the open hillsides that specification is not indulgence; it decides whether the unit still looks like itself in five years.
Tax 15% back on your tax return
The state hands back 15% of the spend, up to a 4,000 € base — 600 € is the ceiling. The job has to be finished by 31/12/2026 and paid by traceable means, and the claim goes into the Spanish resident return.