Be Charge in reverse also from the Pnrr. What is going on? It is inevitable to ask this after the announcement that Eni’s subsidiary Plenitude will install less than half of the fast urban charging stations financed by the Pnrr. A strategic retreat that comes two days after the cancellation of all current tariff plans (read). Decision that makes the second Italian operator the most expensive charging network on the market.
Be Charge had grabbed the biggest slice of the 121 million euro pie put on the table by the Pnrr. Exactly the funds to install 2,738 charging stations on 4,700 put up for tender. Now let us know what happens will achieve less than half: only 1,063. And most likely the remaining 1,665 will be lost.
Indeed they cannot be reassigned to the second arrival, Enel X Way, already owner of 1,865 projects. In fact, inheriting the dowry rejected by Be Charge would far exceed the threshold of 30% of the total, thus violating the rules of the tender.
Indicate a new race it seems very difficult, because one of the conditions to benefit from the funds is that the works are completed by 2024.
It will already be a lot if we manage to send the bis tender to fruitionwhich should assign the remaining funds from the first tender for extra-urban stations, which were initially deserted last year (149 million). Plus the remaining onesentire allocation of the Pnrr (715 million in total).
The new tender is stalled, we risk losing tens of millions of funds
All the operators have been waiting for it for months, but for a change i times slip due to unspecified bureaucratic obstacles. Note that the installation deadline of the first block of charging stations is set for the end of this year and the entire amount should be spent by 2026.
Be Charge has communicated to the ministry the waiver of the benefit for the areas of Abruzzo, Basilicata, Emilia-Romagna A, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio A, Piedmont B, Puglia B, Tuscany A, Tuscany B and Veneto B.
In all, the Pnrr allocated resources for urban and extra-urban charging infrastructures for more than that 13,700 fast and ultrafast stations. An equipment deemed essential for the over 4.5 million electric vehicles that will circulate in Italy in 2030, according to the PNIEC plans.
