Company overview
A pure charge point operator that treats its network as a product
Powy runs Italy’s largest independent public charging network, with a growing presence in Spain. Founded in Turin in 2018, it operates as a pure charge point operator: it owns its infrastructure, develops its sites, and runs the network under its own brand. Rather than hand the driver experience to a platform vendor, Powy keeps direct control through its own app.
Powy earns its revenue from drivers charging on its network, at sites it develops and operates under long-term agreements with private hosts and public authorities alike: parking facilities, supermarkets, shopping malls, transport hubs, retail locations, and a substantial book of municipal concessions.
Powy is scaling fast, with a major build-out underway across Italy, spanning different types of locations and communities, and a multi-year plan to grow well beyond its current network. It is also deliberate about how it grows.
“We’ve never believed EV charging should be treated as a commodity. Success in this industry depends on how effectively operators solve real-world challenges for drivers and hosts, creating meaningful differentiation. For us, that means looking beyond the physical infrastructure by itself and focusing on the entire ecosystem around it, from reliability and availability to the digital services that support both drivers and partners. Technology, data and operational excellence have always been integral to our strategy. They were fundamental when our network was smaller, and they become even more critical as we continue to scale.”
That conviction, that the network is a product to be differentiated rather than a commodity to be run, is what eventually made the platform question unavoidable.
The challenge
The legacy platform had become a ceiling
Powy did not migrate because something broke. It migrated because it could see a ceiling. A platform that comfortably runs a few hundred chargers in one market behaves differently once a network spans two countries, multiple hardware brands, and a fast-growing book of site hosts and public authorities. For Powy, three constraints were coming into view at once.
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Headcount that scaled with the network
Growth required adding operational headcount in step with the network rather than ahead of it.
02
Integrations that moved too slowly
Connecting Powy’s own app and wider technology stack took longer than a business moving at Powy’s pace could afford.
03
A roadmap that set the tempo
Powy’s ambitions kept outrunning the vendor’s feature roadmap, so the platform set the pace instead of the business.
The question, reframed
Not “what is broken?” but “what platform would let us build the network we actually want, in more than one market, without rebuilding it again in two years?” Powy chose to move while it was still ahead of the problem, on its own timeline, rather than wait for the ceiling to become a wall.
Why AMPECO
Tested in production before it was trusted
Powy ran a structured tender, invited eight Charge Point Management System (CPMS) platforms, and put two finalists through a proof of concept on real chargers with real drivers. This was not a paper evaluation of feature lists. Powy wanted to see each platform carry its actual network before it trusted one with all of it.
What Powy was really evaluating was fit: whether a platform would keep the brand and the customer relationship in Powy’s hands, and whether it could support the way Powy plans to operate tomorrow.
A platform that never competes for your drivers
AMPECO is a pure software company. It does not operate a charging network, sell hardware, or take a share of a driver’s session, so it never becomes a rival for the same drivers or site-host contracts.
Full ownership of brand, data, and financial flows
AMPECO stays invisible at every driver touchpoint, and the data belongs to Powy. Session and charger data flows through the API straight into Powy’s own data warehouse.
Hardware-agnostic by design
Powy’s four hardware brands run as one network today, and its procurement stays open tomorrow, so the next brand is chosen on the merits.
Roaming on Powy’s terms
Powy holds direct connections with the partners that matter most and manages pricing and reconciliation itself, the posture an operator building a differentiated network wants to keep.
An open platform to build on
Every platform function is exposed through the API, with event-driven integration via webhooks and Kafka, and connection to Powy’s existing app rather than a forced move to a new one.
A migration partner, not just a vendor
AMPECO has migrated more than 150,000 charge points, with migration specialists, solution consulting, and hardware integration included as standard rather than billed as extras.
“I want to focus on my business, on how I grow and differentiate as a CPO. I need a tool to help me. It should not be the other way around, where I am helping the platform vendor define their roadmap and constantly following up.”
Preparing for the switch
The cutover is the easiest part of a migration
Here is the part most operators get backwards. Switch day is simply the result of the work that comes before it, and Powy and AMPECO invested in that work generously.
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One cutover, not a phased transition
Powy chose a single cutover over a country-by-country rollout. A decisive switch is more demanding to prepare, but it moved the whole network onto one platform in one clean window instead of running two systems in parallel for weeks.
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A daily sync and named owners on both sides
For the full length of the project the two teams held a working sync every day, plus dedicated training. Each workstream had owners on both sides: hardware and connectivity, roaming, app and data integration, and energy. AMPECO’s migration specialists mapped the business logic, coordinated partners, and ran the dry runs alongside Powy rather than handing over a checklist.
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Everything testable was tested
Every hardware model and firmware variant, and every one of the six OCPI roaming connections plus Hubject, was tested in parallel, so the switch itself was a rehearsal Powy had already run.
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Tariffs rebuilt, not carried over
Powy’s own data team rebuilt its tariff structure cleanly on AMPECO rather than carrying across years of accumulated complexity.
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A remote redirect, no site visits
The whole fleet was prepared to be redirected remotely. Switch day came down to changing where the chargers pointed and watching them come back.
The day of the switch
Done before eight
25 March 2026
The switch ran in the early morning hours, chosen so drivers would never notice.
From start to finish it really only took two hours. The first hour to make the infrastructure switch and reconnect all the chargers, the second to re-establish and test all the roaming connections in production. We were done before eight. Users basically did not perceive any disruption or downtime.
Chargers came back within minutes. By the first check-in, 100% of expected connectors were online and every roaming connection was live. Uneventful, exactly as it was designed to be, and consistent with a track record in which AMPECO has moved networks of this kind without network downtime.
The results
A larger, more complex network, without the manual overhead
The point of the migration was never the switch. It was what the switch made possible. Powy’s team now spends more of its time on differentiation and less on keeping the lights on.
| Before | On AMPECO | |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnostics | Download and parse full logs | Alerts the team acts on directly |
| Firmware updates | Charger by charger | In bulk |
| Session and charger data | In batches | Live, via API into Powy’s data warehouse |
| New roaming connection | A months-long project | Days |
What Powy is building next
Putting the platform to work
With the migration behind it, Powy is putting the platform to work on what it wanted it for. On the near roadmap:
Plug & Charge
Live session data for clearer driver pricing
B2B partner portal
Custom dashboards for site-host partners
Direct fleet and partner tooling
“The platform is at the center of what we do. We need one that lets us roll out and expand the network, and also new charging experiences, new integrations, and new partner collaborations across more than one market. When we looked at AMPECO’s roadmap, there was a lot of alignment with our own.”
Nicolò Brentan
Chief Growth Officer, Powy