Surplus solar, charging electric trucks

The site in Stavele, owned by Bart Lamaire’s family, is a logistics site with many warehouses, used mostly for storage. It has 1 MW of solar and a 700 kWh battery, but with little activity beyond storage, it produced far more energy than it used.

We had a site with a lot of solar production and little consumption, and we wanted to see what we could do with it.

Bart Lamaire, 24HN

Trucks already come to the site to load, and take their break there. With transport going electric, 24HN put in a fast charger, so transport operators can charge while they are there, at an affordable price.

At a price that is affordable for the transport operator, because their energy costs have to stay as low as possible.

Bart Lamaire, 24HN

Whether one truck charges or several, each connector has to be steered on its own, so that what the site produces or has stored goes into the trucks instead of power from the grid. 24HN compared several energy management systems before choosing Pleevi.

We looked at a number of EMS systems, and in the end Pleevi’s really came out as the best. And we now see in practice that it really does what we want it to do.

Bart Lamaire, 24HN

• The site’s own solar and stored energy come before grid power
• No one has to keep an eye on it

In September 2026, Pleevi Studio’s benefit report set the site against load balancing: the monthly peak was 31 kW instead of 268 kW, 88% lower, and drivers got 100% of the energy they asked for. A second 24HN site, with AC charging, now runs on the same platform.