The tendering course of for the 23 regional tons for the German initiative “Deutschlandnetz”, websites off the motorways began in October 2021 and has now ended with the award of the contract to a complete of ten operators. These tons comprise a complete of 900 search areas (e.g. round a transport hub) through which an HPC park is to be constructed. The bidders should then discover their very own websites inside these search areas.
On this approach, extra enticing websites which might be much less frequented within the forecast have been bundled in every lot – so they’re solely accessible as a whole bundle. The choice course of for the regional tons has dragged on for a very long time. In October 2021, it was nonetheless stated that last awards weren’t anticipated till the third quarter of 2022 on the earliest. Now it has change into Q3 2023.
As is well-known, the German community is meant to shut the “white spots” on the charging map. “Particular person mobility is a good good in a free society. That’s the reason I’m happy that we, because the Federal Ministry of Transport, are setting a milestone with the Deutschlandnetz, which can assure customers a reliably accessible vary of quick charging choices in Germany,” says Federal Minister of Transport Volker Wissing (FDP). “With the Deutschlandnetz, we’re supplementing the growth actions of the charging infrastructure operators in a smart and focused method. Easy quick charging with out gaps on the charging map will thus change into a actuality.”
Dietary supplements for Allego, Fastned and Co.
Among the many firms that may change into a part of the Deutschlandnetz is E.ON. The Essen-based power firm has been awarded the contract by the Ministry of Transport to construct and function greater than 1,200 new quick charging factors for the German “Deutschlandnetz” charging community. Particularly, E.ON has secured round 140 websites in northwest and southern Germany. E.ON will allow charging capacities of as much as 400 kW on the new areas – or a minimum of 200 kW per charging level if the capability is shared. This is likely one of the specs of the “Deutschlandnetz”. The event is to be accomplished by 2026 and realised along with appropriate location companions.
One other winner comes from Norway: Like E.ON, the Norwegian power provider Eviny, which remains to be unknown on this nation within the subject of electrical mobility, has been awarded a contract for 140 areas. This includes three tons with search areas in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and south-west Germany. Eviny broadcasts that it’ll have round 50 websites in operation by the top of 2024. The corporate has already contractually secured the primary websites, “others are presently being specified”.
BayWa Mobility Options GmbH (BMS) will even be an operator of the “Deutschlandnetz”. The Munich-based firm has been awarded the “Bavaria lot” – the Germany Community area “South-East” consists of three tons so that there’s multiple operator within the area and no monopoly. BayWa subsidiary BMS, which is answerable for charging infrastructure, will construct 20 fast-charging parks in Bavaria within the designated search areas as a part of the German initiative. In response to the corporate, “a big a part of the development prices of 15 million euros” shall be coated by the federal authorities within the type of subsidies. The primary BayWa charging parks with 4 to 16 charging factors are to be constructed by mid-2024. BayWa states that a big a part of the HPC websites shall be “complemented by catering and sanitary services”.
Pfalzwerke can be energetic within the southwest and has been awarded two tons all through Germany. The German subsidiary of the Dutch CPO Fastned has gained two tons with a complete of 92 search areas or future areas – within the West area (across the German headquarters in Cologne) and within the South-West area. Fastned will perform the growth in western and south-western Germany in cooperation with municipalities, industrial and personal property homeowners, it says. What’s extra, profitable the tons will enable Fastned to triple the variety of its stations in Germany over the following 4 years – Fastned presently operates 37 areas in Germany.
Mer Germany even gained three tons – the utmost quantity an organization can obtain. Nonetheless, these are all smaller tons, as Mer will solely implement a complete of 83 areas – Fastned has 92 areas from two tons. Mer immediately broadcasts that it’ll depend on “state-of-the-art Hyperchargers” – because of the specification of 200 kW per charging level, it can subsequently be the Alpitronic Hypercharger HYC400. Mer desires to combine smaller areas of measurement S and M (4 and eight charging factors respectively) into present location ideas at industrial properties. The massive L and XL websites (as much as 16 charging factors) are to be carried out as greenfield tasks on new websites, based on the corporate.
Complete Energies has additionally been awarded three tons, however will construct a complete of 134 websites in jap, central and western Germany. These are primarily bigger websites, as Complete Energies says it can construct and function a complete of 1,100 charging factors – round an eighth of the German community. This makes Complete, along with E.ON, one of many largest operators.
Different contracts have been awarded to Allego, Hochtief Ladepartner (a consortium of the Hochtief building group and EWE Go) and By way of Deutschlandnetz, which is backed by VINCI Concessions Deutschland GmbH, the German subsidiary of the French firm VINCI Energies.
It’s fascinating that Allego and Fastned additionally utilized and have been additionally awarded the contract – in spite of everything, each firms had nonetheless been concerned in a lawsuit towards “Deutschlandnetz” initiative final 12 months.
The division into a number of tons per area is meant to make sure that there is no such thing as a monopoly-like place of 1 supplier domestically. A take a look at the Duisburg space, to call only one instance, exhibits what this may seem like: Within the search space round Mittelmeiderich, Complete Energies will construct 4 charging factors; within the south in Huckingen, twelve charging factors are additionally deliberate by Complete. West of the Rhine in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Allego will even construct twelve charging factors, and in close by Moers, six charging factors are deliberate by Pfalzwerke and twelve by Complete. Within the north of Duisburg in Marxloh, an L-Hub is deliberate with twelve charging factors from a batch of Fastned. Once more to the north, Hochtief Ladepartner in Dinslaken can have 4 charging factors – whereas east of Duisburg in Mülheim an der Ruhr there shall be eight charging factors from Pfalzwerke and twelve from Fastned.
EnBW desires to construct quicker with out a German grid
By the way, EnBW, the operator of the presently largest quick charging community in Germany, didn’t take part. After a radical assessment, the power firm determined towards making use of for the regional tons – but it surely nonetheless expressly welcomes the Federal Authorities’s dedication. “We handle our quick ramp-up with extremely standardised processes, fastened suppliers and clearly outlined product modules. The necessities specified for the German grid would necessitate main deviations from these and would imply appreciable extra work for us,” an EnBW spokesperson defined to electrive. “It’s because we can not apply our processes, that are geared in the direction of scaling, inside the framework of the German grid.”
Different massive operators resembling BP/Aral pulse and Ionity didn’t take part or weren’t awarded a contract. They’ll subsequently construct their charging parks independently of the political necessities of the German community. The vary of quick chargers will subsequently additionally develop past the German community – how briskly and the place stays to be seen.
Value was not the one related issue
The Federal Ministry of Transport emphasises that the longer term operators have been “not chosen solely on the premise of the bottom bid worth”. Different related components have been whether or not the operators may arrange the websites rapidly and already had appropriate house, how user-friendly the person bidders needed their websites to be and the way convincing the design of the brand new websites was.
By the best way: The individually tendered motorway tons for 200 fast-charging websites at unmanned relaxation areas haven’t but been awarded; based on the Ministry of Transport, the tendering course of right here is “within the last part”.
Supply: Information by e-mail, standorttool.de (map with the search areas and surcharges as PDF, in German).