There is a heated debate about the conditions under which the network operator can intervene in the charging process.
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For months, the car industry and power grid operators have been exchanging blows over the question of whether charging processes for e-cars can be interrupted – for example if the power grid is overloaded. The network operators have now turned to the Federal Ministry of Economics and have asked State Secretary for Economic Affairs Patrick Graichen to help bring the debate to a rational level.
A letter from more than two dozen network operators – including companies such as Eon, Thüga and Stadtwerke München – to the State Secretary states that the car manufacturers are fueling “consumers’ fears of having to hand over control of the use of their vehicle to the distribution network operator”. . The letter is available to the Handelsblatt.
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