innogy Charging Technology Certified for the US Market

The abbreviation UL stands for Underwriters Laboratories. The internationally active safety sciences company independently and comprehensively tested innogy's charging points, which have been modified for the USA. The main focus was on electrical safety, fire protection, usability and customer friendliness. The clear verdict: innogy's charging points meet the valid safety standards for the USA. 

"UL approval is a significant step and opens the door to one of the world's most attractive markets for electromobility worldwide," said Elke Temme, head of operations electromobility at innogy. "States like California are the trailblazers of a stricter climate-protection policy. The interest in emission-free driving is thus huge." innogy has established a dedicated subsidiary for the US e-mobility market. innogy e-mobility US is a technology and service provider focusing on California and other ZEV states. It has a broad portfolio, including the production, marketing, delivery and installation of charging solutions as well as their operation on their own software platform.

innogy is hardly an unknown quantity in California. Since 2015, the company has been cooperating with the University of California in San Diego and the German car manufacturer Daimler. There are 26 charging points offering green electricity that is generated on the campus, which can charge the batteries of several smart fortwo electric drive cars. The goal of the project is to harmonize electricity use with renewable energy generation through innovative charging management – that's exactly what's in demand in the US market.

With over 5,800 charging points, innogy is one of the leading providers of charging infrastructure in Europe. In Germany, the company has built up a large integrated charging network with more than 150 public utility partners. The goal is: Wherever an electric car is parked, it should be able to charge – and the best way of doing this is in harmonious interplay with regenerative energy generation.

More information at www.innogy.com/mobility

About innogy SE
Innogy SE is the leading German energy company, with sales of around 44 billion euros (2016), more than 40,000 employees and activities in 16 European countries. With our three business areas – Grid & Infrastructure, Sales and Renewables – we are addressing the needs of a modern decarbonized, decentralized and digital energy world. Our 23 million customers are at the heart of innogy's activities. We want to offer them innovative and sustainable products and services that enable them to use energy more efficiently and improve their quality of life. Our most important markets are Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium as well as some countries in Central and South Eastern Europe, in particular the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. With a renewable energy generation capacity of 3.7 gigawatts, innogy is also active outside these regions, e.g., in Spain, Italy and the MENA region (Middle East, North Africa). As a leading innovator in the issues of the future such as eMobility we are represented in the technology sector's international hotspots such as Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, London and Berlin. We combine the wide-ranging expertise of our energy technicians and engineers with digital technology partners – from start-ups to large-scale conglomerates. With planned investments of 6.5 to 7.0 billion euros in the period from 2017 to 2019, we are building the energy market of the future and driving the energy transition.

Innogy is colorful, flexible, full of energy – let's innogize!

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