The Government approved a set of measures this Wednesday aimed at liberalizing electric mobility, facilitating the charging of electric vehicles and eliminating the role of the marketer.
Among the measures approved in the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers is the decision to allow electric vehicle charging at any charging station, not just where there is a contract, and to eliminate the role of the marketer.
The approved measures aim to “make it as easy for an electric vehicle driver to charge their car as it is today to go to a gas station”, thus advancing a “liberalization and simplification of electric mobility”, announced the Minister of the Presidency, António Leitão Amaro, at a press conference after the Council of Ministers meeting.
In this way, among the approved measures is included “the requirement to have a contract with an electricity supplier being eliminated, allowing one to go to a refueling station, charge, and pay with normal electronic payment methods” and, thus, “not needing to have a prior contract,” as well as “allowing for a standardization of measurement units so that prices are comparable”.
The Government will also “allow that refueling units can also be units with production for self-consumption” and that the charges can be bidirectional so that excess capacity can be supplied.
António Leitão Amaro also stated that the changes will allow “to eliminate the role of the electric mobility marketer: we can achieve, in addition to increasing competition and freedom of activity, to lower the prices of charging electric vehicles, which are high in Portugal compared to other countries”.
