'Relatively high charging rate'

‘Maastricht removes 32 Allego public charging poles: too expensive and too old’

Maastricht verlengt het aflopende contract met Allego niet en laat 32 laadpalen verwijderen. Foto: Shutterstock

In Maastricht, 32 public charging poles belonging to charging operator Allego will be removed this month. The municipality has decided not to extend a 10-year contract, which expires this month. This is reported by RTV Maastricht and De Nieuwe Ster Maastricht.

The charging poles were installed in 2016 after the municipality signed an agreement with Allego for a ten-year period. According to the municipality, there are several reasons not to continue the cooperation. One important factor is the relatively high charging rate. Whereas users at many other public charging points in the region pay between 33 and 44 cents per kWh, the rate at the Allego poles is 62 cents per kWh, reports RTV Maastricht.

In addition, Allego last year introduced an extra connection charge for vehicles that stay connected for more than five hours. This would make the charging stations less attractive for users, according to the municipality. Moreover, as the parking spaces are exclusively intended for charging and not for regular parking, the locations are relatively often empty.

Technically obsolete

The technical state of the charging stations also plays a role in the decision. According to the municipality, the installations no longer meet the latest requirements in terms of smart charging, cybersecurity and user facilities.

About half of the 32 charging locations are now considered by the municipality to be less suitable for public charging infrastructure. No new charging points will return to those locations. At other locations, the existing charging stations may be replaced by new installations from Vattenfall, both media reported.

Cooperation

The removal of the Allego charging posts will not lead to a decrease in the total number of public charging points, according to the municipality. Maastricht has been cooperating with almost all municipalities in Brabant and Limburg within joint European tenders for public charging infrastructure since 2017. Through this cooperation, around five hundred public charging stations have been installed in Maastricht in recent years. The network should also be further expanded in the coming years.

In the Netherlands, Allego has a network of around sixty fast charging stations and 10,000 AC charging points. The company, founded in 2013, manages a total of more than 35,000 charging points in 16 European countries. At the end of October 2025, the company opened its 1,000th fast-charging station in Europe.

Update 12 June: A new letter from Alderman Johan Aarts has been published, correcting the earlier letter regarding the removal of the charging stations. In it, he states that he had incorrectly suggested that the charging stations did not comply with the latest cybersecurity requirements. He further notes that Allego contacted him and confirmed that the charging stations are secure and comply with all applicable standards.”

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This article was automatically translated from the Dutch language original to English (British).

Author: Nina Koelewijn

Source: MobilityEnergy.com

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