On Thursday 27 October 2022, Luxembourg's Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning and the Ministry of the Economy annouced that following the first call for projects granting financial aid to companies investing in charging infrastructure projects for electric vehicles, 29 projects were selected.
The companies concerned will benefit from a subsidy of up to 50% of the investments linked to the deployment of charging stations whose charging capacity is at least equal to 175 kilowatts.
Spread over the whole of Luxembourg, the 29 selected projects were submitted by nineteen companies, including three small companies, three medium-sized companies and thirteen large companies. The total amount of aid granted by the State is over €4.5 million. Thus, a total of 672 terminals will be subsidised, including 510 private terminals, 20 accessible to the public during the opening hours of the company car park and 142 accessible to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The total load capacity of these terminals is 25,847 kW.
The Minister of Energy, Claude Turmes, said: “These results show that Luxembourg companies are ready to take up the challenge of electromobility. Each new charging station installed on our territory contributes to improving the density of our network of charging points, which is already among the densest in Europe. The 672 additional charging stations, 44 of which are fast charging stations, will adequately support the deployment of additional electric vehicles".
Economy Minister Franz Fayot said: “By financially supporting companies that deploy charging infrastructure, this aid instrument contributes to the decarbonisation of transport and the development of electromobility in Luxembourg. The 29 subsidised projects are part of the government's efforts to achieve the objectives of the energy transition".
Open to companies of all sizes wishing to invest in charging infrastructure projects, the next call for projects will be launched in early 2023.
The ministries also recalls that there is another aid scheme reserved for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and on simple request, SMEs can benefit from a subsidy of up to 50% of the costs linked to load and up to 60% of the costs related to the connection to the electricity grid. This aid is capped at €60,000 for the costs of connection to the electricity network and €40,000 for other costs related to the deployment per company.
