Vattenfall to install 22,000 charging points in the Netherlands
Vattenfall InCharge is the Swedish energy supplier’s eMobility brand. The new tender would increase the number of public charging points installed by Vattenfall in the two counties to a total of 59,000.
According to Vattenfall, both provinces have set high standards for the Europe-wide tender in terms of cyber security, price transparency and user-friendliness. With regard to the last two points, the new charging stations must have a display that shows price and charging information, among other things.
Vattenfall does not provide any details on the types of charging stations to be used or the charging capacities in the brief announcement. However, it is likely to be mainly AC charging stations. An exact distribution across Brabant and Limburg is also not mentioned. The reason for this is that the installation of the new charging stations will be based on “predicted use by electric vehicle drivers.” Current data will be used to analyse where the demand for charging is greatest. A total of up to 22,000 additional charging points are to be built over the next few years. However, it is not clear from the press release what Vattenfall means by “in the next few years”.
What is clear, however, is that Vattenfall’s charging stations will “support grid-conscious charging” by “matching charging capacity to available grid capacity, to alleviate grid congestion”. The energy company will be able to temporarily reduce the output of the charging stations at points in the grid where the demand for electricity is temporarily too high. “With our solution, we can actively stabilise the grid and maximise the use of sustainable electricity,” says Fabian Hagmann, Head of E-Mobility at Vattenfall.
For Vattenfall InCharge, this tender is the third award for public charging stations within this year. “As part of our commitment to electrifying transportation, this new concession will expand our charging network across Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany, to more than 1 Gigawatt, which equals 90,000 charging points,” adds Hagmann.
The company already won a tender in the Amsterdam metropolitan region in March of this year. According to the tender, up to 35,000 new public charging points are to be installed in 74 municipalities in the Dutch provinces of North Holland, Flevoland and Utrecht over the next four years, for which Ubitricity, TotalEnergies and Vattenfall will be responsible. However, nothing was said about the exact distribution between the three providers. “The ratio in the realisation of chargers of each of the CPOs will be reviewed periodically based on performance,” the company wrote at the beginning of this year. According to its own information, Ubitricity is entitled to the largest share of the charging points to be built among the three operators.
The announcement of a second tender win followed just over a month later. Following this, The Hague commissioned Vattenfall InCharge to manage and maintain its 5,400 public charging points. The agreement also includes the expansion of the network by 3,200 charging points over the next four years. The new charging points will also be “vehicle-to-grid-ready”. At the same time, Vattenfall also announced a pilot project for the Plug&Charge function for 2025. With Plug&Charge, the charging process is known to start without further registration as soon as the cable is connected.
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