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The public charge-point count

What it measures

The public charge-point count reads the Bundesnetzagentur's public charge-point register, counting points and the stations that host them separately.

Inputs

  • The Bundesnetzagentur's Ladesäulenregister (public charge-point register), station and per-point rows, downloaded as a dated CSV
  • The Bundesnetzagentur's own published headline count, from its charging-infrastructure workbook

Method and weighting

A station in the register is a Ladeeinrichtung, a physical charging site; a charge point is one plug at that station, and the register lists how many points each station holds.

A point counts as fast when its own connector power is above the threshold stated on the view; points with no listed connector power are classed by their station's average power per point.

Only stations marked as operating are counted, so points still being installed or already withdrawn are left out of every total.

The Bundesnetzagentur's own published headline also counts notifications still being processed, so it runs above the register on the same date. That gap is checked against a fixed tolerance and flagged when the register falls further behind.

Points are placed by their district for the map. Points whose district name matches no district on the map are counted as unplaced.

Window

The commissioning history from the first date shown on the view, up to the register's own as-of date. The current window runs from to . Data last refreshed on .

Known limits

  • A point is dated by its self-reported commissioning date. A station already commissioned but not yet registered is absent from every count until it appears in the register, and its eventual registration can raise an earlier month's count in a later rebuild.
  • The register lists only public charging whose notification is complete; the Bundesnetzagentur's own account says the real public network is larger.

Used on

Sources: Bundesnetzagentur. Each is described on the Data sources page.