Vattenfall Incharge has won a European tender and will build 22,000 charge points for electric vehicles in the Netherlands. The charging stations will be installed in the provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant. The company has already installed 37,000 public charge points there. ‘We are committed to the electrification of transport and are expanding our charging network in Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany to more than one gigawatt with this new concession, which corresponds to 90,000 AC charge points,’ says Fabian Hagmann, Head of E-Mobility at Vattenfall.
Grid-friendly charging
The charge points are to be installed over the coming years. It is not only the improvement of the offer for electric car drivers that is important. ‘With our solution, we can also actively stabilise the grid and maximise the use of sustainable electricity,’ explains Fabian Hagmann.
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This is because the charging stations support grid-conscious charging. They always adapt the charging power to the available capacity of the power grid. This prevents grid bottlenecks. To do this, Vattenfall can temporarily reduce the output of the charging stations at points in the grid where the demand for electricity is too high at the time of charging. This happens, for example, during the evening peak times when many people return home.
High demands on the charging stations
In the tenders, the two provinces set high standards in areas such as cyber security, price transparency and user-friendliness. For example, Vattenfall is equipping each of the new charging stations with a display on which electric car drivers can see price and charging information. When planning the locations for the charging stations, Vattenfall will take into account the expected use by drivers of electric vehicles. Current data will be used to analyse where the demand for charging is greatest.
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Vattenfall Incharge has already won this tender for the third time in a year, according to the company. It had previously won the tender for the Dutch municipality of The Hague for 5,400 charge points and the Amsterdam metropolitan region for 35,000 charge points. Vattenfall worked together with two other operators on the tender in Amsterdam. (su/mfo)
