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 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.