- Half-hourly energy matching directly links EV charging demand with renewable generation
- Locally sourced energy model improves transparency, traceability and energy security, supporting local authorities, businesses and landlords with clearer insight into EV charging energy origin and usage
- Flexible pricing structure helps stabilise costs
Electric vehicle (EV) charge point operator (CPO) Believ has partnered with UrbanChain, an AI-powered, licensed energy supplier, to power its UK charging network with traceable, locally matched renewable energy that bypasses the wholesale energy market to deliver stable energy prices.
This three-year extension builds upon an agreement first signed in 2025 and will continue to power Believ’s growing network.
The agreement sees UrbanChain’s half-hourly matching, transparent model applied across Believ’s growing charge point portfolio of more than 2,400 live chargers nationwide, with thousands more being installed through several major local authority and commercial partnerships.
Matching supply and demand every 30 minutes
UrbanChain’s model directly connects electricity demand with renewable generation on a half-hourly basis, removing traditional intermediaries and increasing transparency over where energy is sourced.
For Believ, this means the energy used across its charge point network can be matched to specific generation sources in near real time, often within the same local area. This approach provides greater certainty and clarity over energy provenance, while also helping to manage exposure to wholesale market volatility.
The partnership also enables a more flexible pricing structure, helping to deliver cost efficiencies for partners and EV drivers.
Supporting local energy and infrastructure
By aligning local renewable generation with local EV charging demand, the partnership supports a more decentralised and resilient energy system. It also enables local authorities, businesses and landowners to better understand how and where energy is generated and consumed within their areas.
UrbanChain’s interactive generation map will support this approach, allowing users to visualise how renewable energy is matched to EV infrastructure.
Guy Bartlett, CEO at Believ, says the partnership with UrbanChain is underpinned by a shared goal to deliver innovative, future-proofed energy solutions: “With UrbanChain, we have strengthened our ability to offer not just renewable, but fully traceable energy across our network.
“By matching demand with local generation, we can give our local authority and business partners, and driver customers greater confidence in where their energy comes from, while also improving how we forecast demand and develop better-value propositions.”
Charlie Parry, Chief Growth Officer at UrbanChain, said: “This is infrastructure-level system change. UrbanChain already powers Believ’s network, and this extension commits that model for the next three years as EV charging is rolled out at scale across the UK.
Local authorities across the country are deploying EV charging at pace, and behind every one is an energy system that either entrenches wholesale volatility or builds something structurally different.
“We’ve built the latter with Believ, bringing local renewable generation to local consumers, through choice, not obligation, and giving long‑term certainty to serious infrastructure rollouts. This is what powering communities, councils, and the decarbonisation of transport at scale actually looks like, through resilient, repeatable systems, designed to support the decarbonisation of transport at national scale.”
