Infrastructure Charging Grant for Businesses and Fleets
Don’t miss your chance!
Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK may apply for the electric vehicle infrastructure grant.
Basically, the grant covers up to 75% of the infrastructure needed for chargepoints to work, future chargepoints to be installed, and chargepoints themselves. Grants are limited to £15,000 each.
Here's what you can get:
£350 per chargepoint socket installed
£500 per parking space enabled with supporting infrastructure
There has to be a chargepoint socket for every parking space claimed. The socket must be associated with an installed chargepoint or one that will be installed at a future connection location.
Installed infrastructure should support a minimum of five parking spaces and at least one working chargepoint.
There is a separate and different grant from the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS), which does not help towards the cost of chargepoint infrastructure. Both grants may be used for the same site, but not the same chargepoints. If you are using both grants, you must claim for at least one working chargepoint under the EV infrastructure grant for staff and fleets and only use the WCS for chargepoints added at a later date.
Who can apply?
Small-to-medium businesses with fewer than 249 employees can apply for this grant.
Your business must be a UK-registered company, charity or public sector organisation to apply and will need (one of the following):
Companies House company registration number
VAT registration number
Using your company registration number will speed up the application process.
Linked enterprises
A linked enterprise is where one enterprise within a group of businesses or companies:
has a majority of the shareholders’ or members’ voting rights in another enterprise
has the right to appoint or remove a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body of another enterprise
has the right to exercise a dominant influence over another enterprise under a contract entered into with that enterprise or to a provision in its memorandum or articles of association
is a shareholder in or member of another enterprise, controlling alone, under an agreement with other shareholders in or members of that enterprise, a majority of shareholders or members’ voting rights in that enterprise
OZEV will treat any enterprise with these relationships as a single entity. The maximum grant limits apply to that single entity.
Franchises may or may not be a linked enterprise depending on the terms of your franchise agreement.
