Berend Simons
Co-founder, Editorial lead
Berend co-founded Volt Time and Plugchoice and has worked in EV charging since 2014, first as an installer. He leads Plugchoice's reporting on the charging market: hardware, OCPP and the software behind it, with a focus on original sourcing and direct confirmation from the companies involved.
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- Octopus Energy closed its majority stake in Uplight, and bought 8.5 GW of flexible load with it
- An Austrian utility bought a German charging network, and the operator behind those points changed owner
- Plug and Charge arrives on AC chargers, and it is a backend feature now
- A payments group now owns two of the charging back offices your depot might be running on
- A German draft law would cap solar feed-in at half, and that quietly limits home batteries and bidirectional cars too
- Mercedes-Benz and ChargePoint now sell you the workplace chargers with the vans
- A QR code and Apple Pay: ChargePoint operators can now take ad-hoc payments without an app
- Hyundai picked an energy company to run charging inside its own app
- The EU grid code consultation closed with 117 responses, adoption is now set for Q4
- Your NewMotion charger is yours. Take it back.
- The EU's new grid code puts bidirectional chargers in a class of their own
- Zaptec's Benelux revenue more than doubled in a quarter Alfen's charging arm shrank