Electric Vehicle Charging: All About Grants

What is OZEV?

The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) is a team working across government to support the transition to zero emission vehicles. They provide support for the take-up of plug in vehicles, as well as funding to support chargepoint infrastructure across the UK.

As OZEV Approved Installers Green Generation Renewables Ltd are able to undertake installation and infrastructure work that qualifies for one or more government grants. We will also provide you assitance with your grant application and claiming back the grant money on completion of works. If you are successful in your grant application you never have to pay and reclaim the monies, it is simply deducted from your final bill and we take care of claiming the money from OZEV

What Government Grants Are Available For Electric Vehicle Chargers?

It’s a little more complicated nowadays as the grant schemes have evolved and the original grants are no longer available, but there are essentially two categories of electric vehicle charger grants still available: The “Electric Vehicle ChargePoint Grant” and the “Workplace Charge Scheme (WCS) Grant”. Within both of these schemes there are two categories of grant available; providing financial assitance with both the cost of the charger and also any infrastructure work that is required to install it (for example to help with required groundwork and excavation). Although there are no longer grants available to owner occupiers of homes with driveways there are still options available for tenants and landlords and residents of appartment blocks with off street allocated parking as well as small buinesses and charities. All the information you need can be found in the drop-down menus below.

EVCP Grant for Tenants & Landlords

  • The EV chargepoint grant provides funding of up to 75% towards the cost of installing electric vehicle smart chargepoints at domestic properties across the UK. It replaced the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) on 1 April 2022.

  • EV chargepoint grant
    An EV chargepoint grant gives you money off the cost of installing an electric vehicle chargepoint socket.

    You can get either £350 or 75% off the cost to buy and install a socket, whichever amount is lower.

    Each financial year, you can get up to:
    -200 grants for residential properties

    -100 grants for commercial properties
    These can be across several properties and installations or for one property.

    EV infrastructure grant
    An EV infrastructure grant gives you money off the cost of wider building and installation work that’s needed to install multiple chargepoint sockets.

    The work can be for sockets you want to install now and in the future. For example, an EV infrastructure grant can cover things like wiring and posts.

    You can get up to £30,000 or 75% off the cost of the work. The amount depends on how many parking spaces the work covers.

    You can get up to 30 infrastructure grants each financial year.

    Each infrastructure grant must be used for a different property.

    For more information on landlord infrastructure grants click here to access the government’s website.

  • Click here to access the government’s website and see who is eligible to apply and the property criterea

  • Click here for information about applying for a grant or start your application

WCS & Infrastructure Grants

  • The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is a voucher-based scheme that provides support towards the up-front costs of the purchase and installation of electric vehicle charge-points, for eligible businesses, charities and public sector organisations.

  • The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) is a voucher-based scheme that provides eligible applicants with support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints.

    It is available in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but not in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.

    The scheme is run by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) and administered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).

    This grant can be used in conjunction with the EV infrastructure grant for staff and fleets: customer guidance, which helps fund both the installation of chargepoints and the cost of chargepoint infrastructure. Both grants may be used for the same site but not the same chargepoints.


    How the scheme works
    The WCS is open to businesses, charities and public sector organisations that meet the applicant and site eligibility criteria.

    The grant covers up to 75% of the total costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints (inclusive of VAT), capped at a maximum of:
    -£350 per socket
    -40 sockets across all sites per applicant: for instance, if you would like to install them in 40 sites, you will have 1 socket available per site.

    For full details click here to access the government’s website

    More information on the infrastructure grants avaliable to business cn be found here.

  • Click here to access the government’s website and see which small businesses and charities are eligilble to apply

  • Click here to access the government’s website for more information about how the grant scheme works or start your application