Neertec

Neertec UK is the fleet electrification and depot charging arm of the Petrotec Group, a European industrial engineering business with 42 years in fuel and energy infrastructure across 84 countries. The UK operation is new. What it brings isn't a long domestic track record yet, it's the depth of a group that has built and maintained energy infrastructure at scale, now pointed at the problem most SME operators hit first: getting a depot electrified without stitching together four separate suppliers who each own one slice and none of the outcome.

That's the pitch worth taking seriously. Depot charging isn't a hardware purchase, it's an infrastructure project involving grid capacity, civils, switchgear, cable runs and phased build on a site that can't stop running. Neertec delivers the whole scope under one contract with a single accountable programme lead, from planning through to ongoing operations. For an operator without an in-house energy team, that single point of accountability is the thing that actually removes risk.

The grid piece is where it matters most. Most operators don't have the resource or the DNO relationships to work a connection application and capacity assessment, and that's the step that quietly pushes electrification programmes back by a year. Neertec takes DNO and ICP engagement on proactively and builds grid strategy into the plan from the start rather than treating it as an afterthought. They also work iDNO adoption, where an independent network operator adopts the site's electrical infrastructure and returns capital into the project. That's a real lever on total cost of ownership, and most operators are never told it exists.

Two things set the offer apart from a straight charge point installer. Through Petroassist, the group's fuel infrastructure business, they decommission legacy bunkered diesel (tanks, pipework, remediation) and build the charging infrastructure on the same site under one contract. A genuine single route through the physical diesel-to-electric transition. And through Hellonext, the group's in-house charger manufacturer, they have direct hardware supply, though they specify multi-vendor and hardware-agnostic where the duty cycle calls for it, up to Megawatt Charging Standard for the heaviest vehicles.

They're also designing for shared depot infrastructure from the start rather than as a retrofit, which lines up with where the system value of freight depots is heading. For operators weighing whether to build for their own fleet or for multiple users, that's the right question to be asking early.

The honest read: Neertec is early in the UK and says so. The credibility is the group behind it and the completeness of the offer, not a portfolio of finished UK depots. For an SME operator who wants one partner accountable for the whole journey rather than a pile of subcontracts, it's worth a conversation.