SNCB to roll out large EV charging station network
Railway operator SNCB plans to provide its train station car parks with 5,000 new charging spaces for electric cars by 2032. The rollout will start as soon as possible, says SNCB.
SNCB will issue a tender in the next few months, De Tijd reports. The company wants to install 2,500 stations by 2032, accounting for 5,000 charging spaces. It is required to provide at least 194 charging points across Flanders and Brussels.
The company has 522 stations with parking facilities, good for some 75,000 parking spaces in total. In 2020, SNCB issued a tender, won by Dutch charging station company Allego, which operates charging infrastructure at 35 station car parks. The new concession, which will only include ordinary public EV charging stations with a capacity of up to 22 kilowatts - no fast charging spaces or charging infrastructure for its own vehicles and staff - will be on top of that.
SNCB's new concession will be one of the largest to date. In 2022, Flanders appointed French energy companies Total Energies and Engie to install and operate just under 10,000 public charging points by 2025. At the end of May, Flanders had 46,000 public charging points. By 2030, that number should rise to at least 100,000, or one public charging point for every 10 electric cars.
Electric cars at a charging station in Zeebrugge © BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM
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