Grants for Apartment Blocks

[BorkBorkBork]

It was my understanding that from 31st March 2022, grants would be available to residential apartment buildings for both infrastructure costs and the costs of installing the charger. I believe it was £500 per bay towards infrastructure costs and up to £350 per charger?

Can anyone clarify the above?

Our building, which is relatively small, had a quote prior to this scheme being announced, and the infrastructure costs made the entire venture unworkable. It was just too expensive.

However, at up to £500 per bay towards infrastructure costs, the venture would probably be viable. We’ve been in touch with the company who supplied the original quote and they say there is no clarity as yet on the funding. Which is strange given the scheme should have started 10 days ago.

Does anyone know what’s going on?

[normalbloke]

I’d imagine the quote will have gone up by £850 per bay since then….

[C63sxb]

There was supposed to be a new portal for which we (installers) can apply.

Nothing as yet. I asked for an update last month, was just sent Novembers press release.

I’ve got business customers waiting to pull the button.

Very frustrating

[TheDeuce]

There are several companies presenting ideas to the government for all manner of solutions to pavement/communal charging. Once they decide which systems they want to support, I expect there will be grants to the installers of the kit. It's going to cause an uproar if they ban ICE and leave people unable to install their own charger totally stuck.

[Frimley111R]

We contacted OZEV a week before the grant was due to come in to get clarification and OZEV said they didn't have details yet! Government departments are hopeless.

[Frimley111R]

TheDeuce said:

There are several companies presenting ideas to the government for all manner of solutions to pavement/communal charging. Once they decide which systems they want to support, I expect there will be grants to the installers of the kit. It's going to cause an uproar if they ban ICE and leave people unable to install their own charger totally stuck.

Communal charging is simple enough. Charging for those who do not have off road parking is a huge deal. I can't see much option other than to go to dedicated EV charging stations and realistically these will have to have some sort of waiting areas (like the big Shell one in London).