State owned group PGE and Volkswagen plan to install up to 300 electric car charging points this year in Poland, Polish media announces. “The PGE Group is the first operator in Poland whose electric car charging stations are 100-percent powered by renewable energy,” said Paweł Śliwa, PGE Vice President of Innovation, in a press release.

A developed network of charging stations in cooperation with Volkswagen Group Polska and the Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat Dealers Association is our next step towards reducing emissions,” he added. PGE New Energy has already installed 66 charging points in Poland, used by approximately 1,500 customers per month.

The plans for development in 2020, aim to triple the number of charging points. The deployment will be made through PGE New Energy,

The Volkswagen Group intends to spend EUR 60 bn on the development of hybrid cars, electromobility and digitalization between 2020-2024, of which around EUR 33 bn will be dedicated to electromobility itself. The company also wants to launch as many as 36,000 charging points all over Europe.