Where it started
De Energy Hub was shaped on the road. David and his mother Ellen were travelling Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way - through coastal towns, rural landscapes, and the quieter routes that connect them. The kind of trip that reminds you why Ireland is worth the journey.
It also reminded them of something that every EV driver in Ireland knows: charging infrastructure hasn't kept pace with the places people want to stop. Cafés with car parks but no chargers. Hotels with chargers that nobody knew were there, with no way to book them or pay for them. A gap between the energy that was sitting unused and the drivers who needed it.
This insight became De Energy Hub - David and Ellen's Energy Hub, named after the two of them, built from a journey they took together along the Wild Atlantic Way.
What De Energy Hub does
De Energy Hub is a smart parking and EV charging app - available on the App Store and Google Play - built for Irish hosts and businesses that have chargers and parking spaces they want to manage properly.
Businesses with EV chargers or car parks often have the charger or the space but no system for drivers to find, book and pay for it. De Energy Hub gives them one: a way to make those chargers and spaces visible and bookable in the app.
Through the app, hosts can list their chargers and parking bays, set availability and pricing, accept bookings and payments from drivers, and see every booking on their phone. Drivers search and book, or scan a QR code at the space or charger, pay through the app, and that's it. De Energy Hub works with the chargers and parking bays a host already has.
🅿️ Parking Hubs
Create a bookable car park from any collection of spaces. Each bay gets a unique QR code. Hosts set availability windows, minimum booking length and pricing. Drivers get reminders before and after their booking ends.
⚡ EV Charging Hubs
Add the chargers you already own to the app. Each charger gets its own QR code, name and rate. See bookings and earnings in the app.
🔗 Park & Charge bundles
Link a Parking Hub and a Charging Hub into one combined session. One booking and one payment for the space and the charger together, with the breakdown shown.
📊 One home screen
Upcoming bookings, open queries, earnings by day, week and month, hub counts and who is checked in.
Who De Energy Hub is built for
Any Irish business or venue with EV chargers or parking spaces can use De Energy Hub. Hosts include the types of business below, and what they have in common is that they already have chargers or spaces.
The setup is straightforward. Create your account, build your Hubs, configure pricing, generate QR codes, and go live. Typical set-up is under an hour, using the chargers and bays you already have.
For drivers, the experience is just as simple. Search by location to book ahead, or scan the QR code at the space or charger to book on arrival, then pay and go.
The team
De Energy Hub is a small, Ireland-based team at an early and deliberate stage. The platform is live on the App Store and Google Play, and hosts can download the app and list their chargers and spaces themselves.
The bigger picture
Ireland has a target of 900,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. The chargers being installed at hotels, offices, event venues, and businesses across the country are part of what makes that possible - but only if drivers can access them.
De Energy Hub exists to help close that gap, not by building new infrastructure, but by connecting chargers and car parks that are already there with the drivers who need them. When hosts share a charger or car park, they help drivers find a charger or a space on their route while Ireland builds out its charging network.
More chargers in use. More value for hosts. More journeys that don't end in a range anxiety detour. That's what De Energy Hub is for.
Ready to see what De Energy Hub can do for your premises?
Whether you have two chargers in a hotel car park or twenty spaces at an event venue - De Energy Hub was built for sites like yours. Find out more or get in touch.