ARTICLES & INSIGHT
Writing from the infrastructure layer.
Practical insights on EV charging infrastructure, CPO economics and the energy transition — drawn from direct operational experience.
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Grid & Infrastructure
Why the Grid is the Real Barrier to EV Charging — and What to Do About It
Every week I talk to site owners, CPOs and fleet operators who want to deploy EV charging at scale. They have the ambition, the budget and often the customer demand. What stops them almost every time is not the chargers — it is the grid. Grid constraints are the single most underestimated challenge in EV charging infrastructure today. In this article I share what I have learned from delivering MW-scale charging across Finland, Sweden and Europe, and from negotiating grid connections that most developers assume are impossible.
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Industry
How Middle East escalation and rising diesel costs are accelerating the TCO case for fleet electrification — and what smart operators are doing right now.
The escalation in the Middle East, amplified by US foreign policy shifts, has effectively removed Iranian supply from the equation and sent crude prices sharply higher. In some European markets diesel has approached or exceeded €2.00 per litre — and analysts are not talking about weeks of disruption, but years. For heavy transport operators running on margins of 6–7%, this is not an inconvenience. It is an existential threat. But the operators who understand the numbers are drawing a different conclusion: the risk of staying with diesel is now greater than the risk of moving to electric.
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CPO Economics
The CPO Profit Handbook: Revenue Streams, Energy Costs and the Path to Expansion
Charge point operators face mounting pressure to demonstrate sustainable unit economics as the market moves from infrastructure build-out to commercial operation. This article will examine the revenue streams, energy cost structures and expansion strategies that distinguish operators building durable businesses from those burning through investment — drawn from direct commercial experience across Nordic, Italian and wider European CPO markets.
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Technology
Decawatt Charging: Next-Generation Energy Distribution for Depots, Ports and CPOs
The next generation of energy distribution for large-scale charging sites is arriving — and it changes the economics of depot, port and CPO infrastructure in ways most operators have not yet modelled. This article will examine the decawatt charging paradigm, its implications for grid connection planning at scale, and why the operators and developers who understand it early will have a significant structural advantage.
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