Sustainability squared: How Kempower helped Renewi’s electric waste fleet clean up on every front

In June 2025, Kempower partnered with system integrator Batenburg Techniek to deliver DC chargers to the first of many new charging depots Renewi is opening in the next few years.  Renewi is a leading European waste-to-product company active in the Benelux region and other European countries, like France and Portugal. Owning its own charging site to serve Renewi’s growing fleet of electric trucks is a key aspect of company’s sustainability commitment.

Centering sustainability while promoting business growth

Renewi is a leading waste-to-product company that helps businesses manage their waste streams with both environmental and economic benefits. Every year, Renewi recycles millions of tonnes of materials, giving them a new life. At the same time, the company is continuously working to reduce its own carbon footprint.

The electrification of Renewi’s fleet, which began with a single Volvo FE 6X2V in 2020, is accelerating. In the coming months, Renewi will add more than thirty electric trucks to its fleet. The trucks are used to collect waste for processing, where it is transformed into valuable circular materials. The fleet is a key part of Renewi’s sustainability strategy, which aims to reduce absolute Scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and Scope 3 emissions by 25% by 2030.

With a growing fleet, it was important that Renewi had sufficient charging infrastructure to keep the trucks moving. In 2024, Kempower and Renewi started conversations to design a solution for the first depot locations, resulting in two depot locations featuring a total of thirty Kempower Satellite chargers in Amsterdam and Wateringen, The Hague, in the Netherlands.

Building a better and greener world is at the heart of everything Renewi does. We strive for the highest standards. That’s why we chose Kempower chargers for this latest project, with the installation support from Batenburg Techniek. Kempower chargers are fast, versatile, reliable, and efficient. Versatility, in particular, is actually the main reason for our choice – exactly what we need for our busy fleet.”, commented Ramon Blauwhoff, Project Manager at Renewi.

A charging set-up that meets the needs of a large fleet

The Wateringen charging depot is equipped with 18 plugs and the Amsterdam site with 12 plugs. The charging systems employ dynamic power sharing, meaning power can be shared across multiple Kempower dispensers and to allocate the optimal amount of power between all vehicles being charged at any time. This minimizes charging times for drivers and cuts idle power wastage, making it highly cost-efficient for site operators.

Both charging sites are designed to suit the charging patterns of the fleet. The depot chargers will be used largely for overnight charging of the trucks, ready for a full day of driving. Using Kempower ChargEye, Kempower’s cloud-based charging management software for EV charging systems, Renewi can optimize charging times overnight to make charging cost-efficient. Renewi can use ChargEye to schedule charging based on the truck fleets’ availability and optimal times for the grid, potentially cutting energy costs by as much as 60%. Renewi can also use ChargEye to monitor the sites’ charging stations and view charging status and sessions remotely, allowing for swift diagnosis and troubleshooting.

Kempower chargers also offer a high charging uptime, averaging 99% across all charging sites, which is supported by a modular design that ensures that if one modular unit fails, it will not affect the function of the other chargers.

Powering a growing fleet

Renewi already has plans for the installation of five more depot charging sites in i.a. Amersfoort, Nieuwegein, Rotterdam and Puurs (BE). With ambitious plans to expand, Kempower chargers are a reliable choice. Kempower chargers’ modularity means additional chargers can be added to the same site at a later date if needed and their compact size means they take up little space, adding design flexibility to the existing sites.

“Kempower and Renewi have found a fantastic partnership in one another as two pioneers driving the electric truck transition. Renewi’s growing electric truck fleet is evidence that the electric truck transition is here to stay, and Kempower is proud to supply the chargers that power these electric trucks,” commented Han Dix, Country Manager Benelux at Kempower.

“We help our customers with the right energy solutions to support their continued growth. In doing so, together with Renewi and Kempower, we are building towards an emission-free future,” explained Ralph van den Broek, CEO of Batenburg Techniek.

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