EUNICE ENERGY GROUP (EEG) announces the signing of a contract with Blink Charging Co., USA for the creation of a consortium named Blink Europe, and its entry into the European electric vehicle charging market, starting in Greece.
Blink Charging Co., for its part, simultaneously issued a notice on the joint venture with the EEG group from its headquarters in Florida in Miami. (MIAMI BEACH, FL, March 19, 2019-GLOBE NEWSWIRE-Blink Charging Co.: https://bit.ly/2UGhtP8)
Eunice Energy Group (EEG), one of the leading renewable energy companies in Greece, has signed the agreement with Blink Charging Co to establish a joint venture for European Electric Vehicle charging business, starting from Greece. EUNICE ENERGY GROUP (EEG) is a leader in renewable energy. Since 2001, EEG has been continuously investing, innovating, developing and pioneering in the whole range of renewable energy businesses. EEG owns and operates wind farms and photovoltaic plants all over Greece. It is also the owner of Project Tilos, the first hybrid power station in Greece. EEG manufactures the first “MADE IN GREECE” wind turbine EW16 θέτις. Through its solid know-how and range of activities, EUNICE ENERGY GROUP(EEG) has become a “Partner of Choice” for international funds and corporations.
Consortium Blink Charging Europe Ltd. (“Blink Europe”) is part of the global strategy of concluding alliances of Blink and ensures penetration in the European markets right now that is developing rapidly charging electric vehicles. Besides, the sales of electric vehicles continue to grow across Europe and reached 400,000 in 2018, showing a 33% increase. Blink has the products and technology while EUNICE ENERGY GROUP (EEG) has the position and financial resources to secure and ensure dynamic market entry. Furthermore, the Greek Electric Vehicle Charging Network will utilize energy that EUNICE ENERGY GROUP (EEG) produces from renewable sources, with the necessary certificates of origin.
“This Consortium aims at the EU-wide electric vehicle charging market is being created at a very important time for the country,” Michael D. Farkas, founder and Executive President of Blink. Additionally, he stated: “Greece is very low in the ranking of European countries according to their readiness to welcome the electrification. This is mainly due to the lack of infrastructure electrification, yet we have a great impatience to make use of the Consortium to create a large availability of charging points anywhere in Greece.”
The Founder and Executive Chairman of EUNICE ENERGY GROUP (EEG) Mr. George I. Kalavrouziotis said: “I welcome Blink to Europe and Greece. The Greek Energy Group EEG & the International range Blink Charging Co., USA, unite both sides of the Atlantic with the common features which distinguish them: We Invest, Innovate, and Pioneer in production technologies, management and storage of energy from Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The “Blink Europe” Consortium is the culmination of our common goals and development goals. Among the priorities of the development activities of our Consortium, there is the implementation of infrastructures and (EV) electric vehicles networks charging with energy derived from RES with official Certificates of Origin. The clean energy that EUNICE ENERGY GROUP (EEG) produces in Greece is the new driving force for electric cars (EV’s) and the Green Economy primarily in our country and thereafter in other European markets. This consortium constitutes for EEG, another step on our steady route towards the Greece, Europe, neighbouring countries and the whole planet. “