Charging infrastructure: EnBW boss criticizes lengthy approval procedures

Frank Mastiaux, CEO of the energy group EnBW, which is very committed to e-mobility, is bothered by the long approval processes for charging infrastructure projects. In funding procedures, it sometimes takes up to two years until the funds that have been applied for and already approved are actually released. “These are periods of time that simply do not correspond to the ambitious goals that we have set ourselves in our country,” he said at an online event in mid-December, thereby reinforcing a criticism that he has expressed several times in recent years.

According to its own statement, EnBW operates the largest public fast charging network in Germany with more than 650 of its own locations nationwide. By 2025, the energy company plans to set up and operate a total of 2,500 fast-charging locations, for which EnBW intends to invest around 100 million euros annually.

Last October, the EnBW CEO complained in a conversation with the Suddeutsche Zeitung that “the regulatory framework conditions are not helpful in parts”. In 2020, for example, there will be 13.000 charging points were subsidized by the state – but only 3000 were put into operation. This is less due to insufficient technical possibilities than to slow bureaucracy.

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