3,200 Electric Charging Stations are Operating in Hungary

At the end of last year, there were 3,191 electric charging stations requiring a license in Hungary, with 6,191 connectors, and the total amount of energy used reached a new peak in the fourth quarter, the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH) informed MTI in a statement on Monday.

As MEKH’s data from last July confirms, there were still 2,507 licensed electric charging devices registered in 2023, meaning that the rate of growth reached 27 percent in 2024.

At the end of last year, most charging stations were available in Budapest, Pest and Veszprém counties, with 1,119, 425 and 185 units, respectively, while 20, 35 and 52 devices were in operation in Nógrád, Tolna and Békés counties.

Almost three-quarters (74 percent) of the nearly 6,200 connectors were AC types.

As MEKH’s quarterly report confirms, between October and December last year, the amount of electricity sold at public charging stations rose to a new quarterly high of 8.69 gigawatt hours (GWh). Of this, AC (alternating current) charging accounted for 1.9 GWh, while DC (direct current) charging accounted for nearly 6.8 GWh.

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The number of charges in both categories continued to grow in 2024, with service providers registering a total of 396,690 charges by the end of the year, says MEKH. A year ago, the number of charges was around 312,000.

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