German City of Kempen Expands EV Charging Network with the Help of Crowdfunding

There will soon be more charging stations for electric cars in the Kempen city area. The Kempen municipal utility currently operates 14 charging stations for electric cars in the city area. Two cars can charge up at each station, making 28 charging points.

As reported, according to the municipal utility, a further 55 charging stations and five fast charging stations are to be installed in the city area over the next five years.

Daniel Banzhaf, Managing Director of Stadtwerke Kempen, explained the expansion project by saying that the increasing demand has been noticeable for some time

A comprehensive supply of charging stations ensures that electric vehicles become more practical in everyday life and reduces range anxiety – this is the concern of e-car drivers of being stranded with an empty drive battery because they were unable to charge in time.

To finance the project, the municipal utilities are relying on crowdfunding: citizens should be able to participate financially in the expansion of the charging infrastructure. The project partner is DKB-Crowd, a crowdfunding platform through which projects such as citizen solar parks or wind turbines are also implemented.Paid content In December, those involved presented the project to around 80 interested parties at the municipal utility’s headquarters in Kempen and online.

The goal: to raise one million euros through special citizen participation in order to be able to expand the charging infrastructure. To do this, interested parties are to invest amounts between 250 and 25,000 euros for ten years.

The start of the subscription phase, which is initially aimed at customers of Stadtwerke Kempen and will then be opened to investors nationwide, was originally planned for Wednesday, January 29. That is not going to work. “The reason is delays in the approval process that are related to the establishment of the e-mobility company,” said a spokeswoman. The start of the subscription phase will therefore be postponed to mid-March and further information will be provided at stadtwerke-kempen.de and dkb-crowdfunding.de.

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