SPIE is one of E.ON's most important partners, working with us on our digital goals. We do work closely together to support the green energy transition in Europe.
Thomas König, in SPIE's 2021 Integrated Annual Report
Know-how, adaptability and logistics efficiency are essential qualities for the smooth roll-out of our pan-European network of charging stations.
Marcus Groll in SPIE's 2018 Annual Report
Ionity is a joint venture company of 4 car manufacturers, namely: BMW, Daimler, Ford and Volkswagen Group. The plan of Ionity is to build up 400 high power charging stations across Europe, in 24 countries, until 2020.
The partnership with SPIE is very important for us, because SPIE is a partner for us in many countries and SPIE is mainly doing the construction and installation work for all our high power charging stations along the motorways.
We see three main challenges for electric vehicles. The first one is the range of the cars which has to increase in the future. Second one is the charging capabilities, especially the high power charging to allow long-distance driving with electric cars. And the third one are the cost of the cars, the prices of the cars which have to decrease to make it affordable to everybody to drive an electric cars.
SPIE is a very important construction and installation partner for us which will allow us to reach our targets to build up the 400 charging stations in 2020. We work with SPIE on many sites in parallel. It is very important for us that our partners, like SPIE, are very reliable and efficient in the processes.
More than just maintaining our technical facilities, the quality of user services has become an overriding priority.
Emmanuel Deparis in the SPIE's 2018 Annual Report
SPIE steps in from the project outset to handle relations with grid operators and ensure smooth progress on project operations.
Henny Pelsers in the SPIE's 2018 Annual Report
NaGa Solar is a company that develops solar parks in several countries. We develop, construct and invest in these projects, sometimes with other investors. We have a portfolio of about 800 megawatts pick in development in several countries like UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
SPIE is a partner responsible for connecting the solar parks to the national grid. They arrange for all the design and the construction of these connections. They’re also, in the early stage, involved in the planning of these projects to avoid future problems and also take care of all the contacts with the grid operators in this country and in other countries.
The main challenges for us are obviously locally different per country. But here in the Netherlands, it is availability of lands and acceptance of the renewable energy projects by the communities. With regards to the relationship to SPIE, our challenge is the grid availability which becomes an issue in the Netherlands. It is very important for us, with SPIE, in the early stage, to check availability of grid and technics to manage the input of our electricity to the national grid.
The important thing is that we involve them in an early stage. The planning of all these projects have challenges during the process. Then the problem solving of these problems, that’s where we have good relationship with SPIE because they have knowledge and creativity. The European network of SPIE is for us a very important strength. We are active in the Netherlands, at airport like Schiphol 2 project. We actually have our first project in France. We invite SPIE there to work with us because it’s one point of contact. We know the company, we know the right person. For us it is a big plus to work with SPIE internationally as well.
