ESB charger network will be sold eventually
We already see a bit of dancing between private operators and ESB with recent price hikes, ESB giving the private market ample room to run. In Shannon town there was an ESB charger removed and nee Circle K ones put in.
I am guessing this is part of a wider ethos of the state not holding onto any moderately successful venture for longer than strictly necessary. Maybe theyll become a legacy operator that only maintains the slow chargers & some commercially unviable fast chargers with the juicy parts of the network sold off or quietly rebranded.
I am convinced the sell-off is coming, perhaps not immediately because there is more donkey work needed to bring power to new fast charger locations but after that's all done and dusted it will be wrapped into a neat profit-making venture for some bureaucrat's buddy at the K Club and sold for a song