Finland’s first public MCS truck charger opens at the Port of HaminaKotka — 1.8 MW site

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Finland’s first public MCS truck charger opens at the Port of HaminaKotka — 1.8 MW site

January 2026: Plugit × Kempower commission the Mussalo site at Kotka — three 600 kW power units feeding four CCS and one MCS Mega Satellite (1.2 MW), Finland’s largest public truck charger, serving the port corridor. 15 sites already live in the partnership.

2026-01-27 · WattTonne news desk · archive edition (compiled at relaunch, event date as shown)

Finland's first public MCS truck charger opens at the Port of HaminaKotka — 1.8 MW site
Kempower MCS site. Photo: Kempower

Plugit and Kempower signed a sales-and-service partnership in January 2026 and confirmed their first public megawatt charging site for trucks: the Mussalo station near the Port of HaminaKotka, opened to trucks in December 2025. Three 600 kW Kempower Power Units (1.8 MW total) feed four Mega Satellite CCS (560 kW each) and one Mega Satellite MCS (1.2 MW) — Finland’s largest public truck charging station, targeted at port freight. Fifteen sites are already live under the partnership, with Sweden expansion planned for 2026.

The strategic detail is the business model: a local e-mobility operator (Plugit) running turnkey Kempower systems as both installer and CPO — the franchise pattern that scales charging faster than any single-company rollout. It’s the same lesson as China’s coalition builds: local partners with sites and grid relationships, global hardware behind them.

For Nordic-corridor fleets: Kotka joins Landvetter (Gothenburg) and the Padborg border hub in making the Finland–Sweden–Denmark axis genuinely chargeable at megawatt class. Finland’s first MCS at a port also previews the pattern for other Baltic gateways — watch Helsinki, Turku and Stockholm next.

Sources
  • plugit.com announcement (2026-01-27)
  • Kempower Q1 2026 report

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