EBRD loan to Enerjisa for charging infrastructure

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) provided Enerjisa Enerji with its largest financing for electric vehicle charging stations and distributed power generation to date. The bank and the company signed a financing agreement for an approximate amount of 2,000 million lira (110 million dollars).

At the signing ceremony held at the EBRD headquarters in London, EBRD Sustainable Infrastructure Group Director Nandita Parshad and Enerjisa Energy CEO Murat Pınar signed the financing agreement.

Parshad noted that such financing is the largest financing the bank has provided in the field of electric vehicle charging stations and distributed power generation to date in the countries where it operates.

‘IT WILL BE A VERY CRITICAL SECTOR IN THE FUTURE’

Parshad asserted that the financing was “innovative” within the scope of the bank’s operations, saying:

“I think this funding is very important, not only because of its size, but also in the field of electric vehicle infrastructure, which will be a relatively new sector at the moment, but it will be a very critical sector in the future, because it will also contribute to the greening of transport.

As the EBRD, we have financed many clean energy projects in Turkey, but the electric vehicle charging infrastructure has taken EBRD operations to the next level.”

Noting that the annual financing provided by the EBRD for projects in Turkey is at the level of 1.5 billion euros, Parshad said: “The financing of 110 million dollars, which corresponds to about 8 percent of this, was provided in a single transaction in a country in a year. I think we will learn a lot from this project, ”he said.

THE PARKING IS PROJECTED TO EXPAND TO 2 MILLION BY 2030

Murat Pınar, for his part, said that the growth of renewable energy capacity in the world in the next 5 years is expected to be equivalent to the increase of the last 20 years.

Noting that Turkey’s renewable energy capacity is expected to increase by 65 percent in the next 5 years, Pınar said, “On the other hand, it is estimated that Turkey’s EV fleet will reach at least 2 million by 2030. , similar to the trend in the world in the electric vehicle market”.

In this sense, Pınar affirmed that with the financing that they will obtain from this agreement with the EBRD, they will increase the investments that make possible the solutions that they offer to their clients with renewable resources, the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and the modernization of the electricity distribution network with more efficient technological equipment and smart grid applications. (AA)