Allego, the Netherlands-based public charging operator, is migrating its European network to a new charge point management platform. Following a formal tender, it picked AMPECO, a Sofia-based CSMS vendor, to run more than 35,000 charge points across 16 countries, roughly 1.3 million charging sessions a month, 200,000-plus registered drivers and 60-plus roaming connections. Allego expects the migration to complete in Q4 2026.
Allego COO Christian Zeh said the company had "found a partner we can trust with the technology behind our network"; AMPECO CEO Orlin Radev called the deal "a strong signal of how much the market has matured."
The same mechanism applies at any scale and is what Plugchoice is built on. Chargers that speak OCPP can be pointed at a different backend, or routed through a proxy, without replacing hardware.
The scale is what makes this worth noting: one of Europe's largest public networks is replacing its entire software backend without swapping a single charger. That is the point of running chargers on OCPP in the first place, the hardware and the management platform are separate layers, so a backend switch is a software project, not a construction one. It is the same principle behind Plugchoice's OCPP proxy: change or add a backend without touching the chargers or the drivers.
Sources: GlobeNewswire, Automotive World, EV Infrastructure News.