Commercial EV charger installation in Scotland from £800 + VAT
We install commercial EV chargers for staff, fleet vehicles, tenants and visitors at business premises in Scotland, working from our Peterhead base across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and the North East. A single commercial charge point costs £800 to £1,500 + VAT; multi bay and fleet sites are priced after a free survey, with a fixed written price usually within one working day. As an OZEV authorised installer we make the Workplace Charging Scheme claim of up to £500 a socket for you. Call 07304 027013.
Aberdeen Trusted Trader rated 5.0. £2M public liability. Steven Watt holds City and Guilds 2921-34 in EV charging installation, plus 2391-52, 2382-22 and 2365-03. Registered in Scotland SC821028.
What commercial EV charger installation in Scotland covers
Commercial EV charger installation is the supply, wiring, protection, testing and certification of charge points at a business, a depot, a let property or a car park, plus the grant claim and the notice to the network operator. We install for offices, workshops, yards, hotels, surgeries, charities and residential landlords, from a single bay to rows of them.
Commercial charging splits into three jobs: workplace charging for staff cars parked all day, fleet and depot charging for your own vans between shifts, and destination charging for customers and visitors. Each needs different hardware, falls under different rules and qualifies for different funding, so we settle which one you are at the free survey before anyone talks about chargers.
Faithful Spark Electricians is based at 17 Thomson Road, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB42 3FJ. Our own team does the work, led by Steven Watt with Callum alongside him, and every installation is certified under NICEIC enrolment 620239 to BS 7671:2018+A4:2026. For a charger at your house rather than your premises, see our home EV charger installation in Aberdeen.
Last updated 13 October 2026.
How much does it cost to install a commercial EV charger?
One commercial charge point costs £800 to £1,500 + VAT installed with us. Where it lands in that range depends on the cable route and the board, and anything bigger than a single point is priced after we have walked the site.
| Job | Price | What decides it |
|---|---|---|
| Single commercial charge point | £800 to £1,500 + VAT | Distance from the board, whether the cable crosses hard standing, spare capacity in the board, and the earthing method the supply needs. |
| Two or more bays at one site | Priced after a survey | Number of sockets, load management between them, a new sub main or distribution board, and ground works. |
| Fleet and depot charging | Priced after a survey | How many vehicles, how long they sit between shifts, and whether the incoming supply has room. |
| Landlord, HMO and flat car parks | Priced after a survey | Whose supply feeds the bays, how the electricity is paid for, and access control so only residents use them. |
| Customer and visitor charging | Priced after a survey | Charger choice with payment built in, signage of the bays, and the public charge point rules covered further down. |
What a commercial EV charger costs in Scotland
The same as anywhere else in Great Britain, for the same work. The Workplace Charging Scheme is open in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on identical terms, so a Scottish business gets the same up to £500 a socket as one in Leeds.
What does differ up here is the ground and the distances. Car parks with setts or deep tarmac, farm yards and long runs to a gable end all cost more to cross than a short wall run in a new build office, and that is why our range has a top as well as a bottom.
What is in our price
- The survey, free, before any figure is given
- A dedicated circuit with the DC fault and earthing protection Amendment 4 asks for
- Notifying SSEN of the new load
- Testing and an Electrical Installation Certificate under NICEIC 620239
- The Workplace Charging Scheme claim, where you hold a voucher
How the grant works out on a single socket. Say the installed price is £1,000 + VAT, so £1,200 with VAT. The scheme pays up to 75% of the total cost including VAT, capped at £500 a socket. 75% of £1,200 is £900, so the cap applies and the grant is £500.
A twin socket charger counts as two sockets, so the cap doubles to £1,000. That is one reason to consider a twin socket unit for a pair of staff bays.
Get your own figure. Send us the address and how many bays you have in mind and we will survey free and put a fixed price in writing. Call 07304 027013.
The Workplace Charging Scheme ends on 31 March 2027
Your voucher lasts 180 days from issue, and the chargers must be fitted and claimed inside that. Book the survey first so the voucher is not ticking while you decide.
7kW, 22kW or rapid: which commercial EV charger do you need?
For cars parked for a working day, a 7kW charger on a single phase circuit is enough, and two 7kW sockets usually beat one 22kW. A 7kW socket adds roughly 7kWh for every hour a car is plugged in, so a car parked from nine to five leaves with a full day of driving in it.
A 22kW charger needs a three phase supply. It earns its place where the stay is short, such as visitor bays or vans that come back mid shift. Many cars accept only 7kW or 11kW on AC, whatever the charger offers, so check the vehicles before paying for the bigger unit.
An 11kW charger is the middle option on a three phase supply. Rapid DC charging is a different scale of project with its own supply, and we will tell you at survey whether AC already covers what your vehicles need.
Connectors and cables. AC chargers in the UK use the Type 2 connector; DC rapid chargers use CCS. An untethered (socketed) charger, where drivers bring their own cable, suits shared staff bays and mixed fleets. A tethered unit with the cable attached suits a depot running one vehicle type.
If your premises are single phase and three phase is the right answer, read about our three phase supply upgrades, or call 07304 027013 and we will look at the board with you.
Will our electricity supply take EV chargers, and does SSEN need to know?
Most small sites can take one or two chargers on the supply they already have, and SSEN, the network operator for the north of Scotland, is told about every new charging load. Larger sites need either load management or more capacity from SSEN, and the survey decides which.
Load management first
Load management lets several chargers share the capacity a building already has. It turns charging down while the kettles, compressors or ovens are busy and back up when they are not, so the main fuse never sees more than it can carry.
On most workplace car parks this is cheaper than a bigger supply, and it is how we fit more bays than the supply could otherwise feed at full rate.
When SSEN has to add capacity
SSEN's own guidance says most small businesses can move from single phase to three phase, up to 69kVA. Above 70kVA it gives a costed quote, and it lists multiple EV chargers in a car park as a typical reason.
SSEN quotes are free, carry no obligation and stay valid for 90 days. An older 30A or 60A main fuse can be raised to 80A or 100A free of charge. The load figures for any application come from our survey.
What we do about it. We check the board and the supply at survey, tell you plainly whether load management will do, and notify SSEN of the new load as part of the job. Call 07304 027013 to book.
Not sure what your supply can carry?
Free survey anywhere in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, then a fixed price in writing, usually within one working day.
Workplace Charging Scheme 2026: who applies and who claims
Your organisation applies for a voucher, and the authorised installer claims the money after fitting. The scheme pays up to 75% of the cost including VAT, capped at £500 a socket, for up to 40 sockets across all your sites, and its final year runs to 31 March 2027.
- Survey. The scheme asks for the site to be surveyed by an installer before you apply. We do that free.
- You apply online. A successful application gets a voucher code by email within 5 working days. You need a Companies House number, a VAT number or a non domestic rates bill.
- Installation inside 180 days. The voucher is valid for 180 days, and the chargers have to be fitted and the grant claimed within that window.
- We claim. As the OZEV authorised installer, reference EVHS/WCS14254, we submit the claim once the chargers are in.
Schools and depots. State funded schools and education institutions have their own version of the scheme at up to £2,000 a socket, for up to 40 sockets. HGV and coach fleet depots have a separate OZEV Depot Charging Scheme. Tell us which you are and we will point you at the right one at survey.
Who qualifies
Businesses, charities, public sector organisations and small accommodation businesses, with dedicated off road parking at or near the workplace. You must own the site or have the landlord's consent.
A business's grant funded chargers are for staff and fleet; local residents may use them outside office hours. Charities, public bodies and small accommodation businesses can let anyone use them.
What rules a site out
- Parking used only by customers
- Chargers you are obliged to fit, under the Building (Scotland) Regulations from 5 June 2023 or a planning condition
- An address that has already claimed under this scheme or its predecessor
- A residential only charger model at a home business, which gets the claim declined
Before you apply, read our guide to the OZEV Workplace Charging Scheme, then call 07304 027013 and we will survey so your application names the right number of sockets.
EV chargers for landlords, HMOs and blocks of flats
Residential landlords have their own OZEV grant: up to 75% of the cost, capped at £500 a socket, for up to 200 sockets a year, open until 31 March 2027. Private landlords, social housing providers, residents' management companies and property factors in Scotland can all apply.
What the landlord grant asks of you
- Be registered at Companies House or for VAT
- Off street, private, clearly marked bays your tenants can reach, owned by you or with the legal right to use them
- A quote from an OZEV authorised installer with the application
- No charger fitted before OZEV confirms you are eligible
- Decide how the electricity will be paid for, arrange maintenance and add the chargers to the property's risk assessment
How the money reaches you
Once the chargers are fitted, the installer claims the grant and must take it off your invoice first, so you pay the net figure. It does not apply to a property you live in or one used only for holidays.
In a block or an HMO the bays are often on a common supply, so who pays for the electricity is the first question to settle. We can fit chargers with access control and metering for each session, so you can see what each resident used.
In a let property in Scotland the charger circuit becomes part of the fixed installation, so it is included in the five yearly EICR the Repairing Standard requires.
Our part: a free survey, the written quote your application needs, the installation, and the claim afterwards. Call 07304 027013.
Need a quote for a grant application?
Both OZEV schemes start with an installer's survey or quote. We survey free and put the price in writing.
Section 722 and Amendment 4: what a compliant workplace charger needs
Amendment 4 was published on 15 April 2026 and is the edition for all new work from 15 October 2026. Section 722, the part covering EV charging, has four points that change a commercial quote:
- Open PEN protection is required. Regulation 722.411.4.1 no longer has its old "not reasonably practicable" escape. On a PME supply an outdoor charger needs an earth electrode, an open PEN device or a voltage monitoring device, each with set limits.
- 6mA DC fault detection. If the charger has it built in to BS IEC 62955, a Type A RCD upstream is acceptable. If not, the circuit needs a Type B.
- No AFDD on the charger circuit. Regulation 722.421.1.7.201 says arc fault devices are not required for EV charging equipment to BS EN 61851.
- Two way charging. Vehicle to grid and vehicle to building set ups need protective devices that work in both directions and loss of mains protection to G98 or G99.
What we do about it: your written quote names the open PEN method and the RCD type, so you can compare like with like. Call 07304 027013.
Charging staff, visitors or the public: the rules that change
Who uses the charger decides which regulations apply and which grant you can claim. A workplace charger for staff and visitors to your business is a smart charge point in law; a charger mainly for the general public, including one in a customer car park, is a public charge point.
Workplace charge points
The Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 apply in Scotland. The charger must come with default charging hours outside 8am to 11am and 4pm to 10pm on weekdays, which the owner can accept, change or remove.
It must also apply a random delay of up to 600 seconds when charging starts, which the owner can cancel. That delay is why a new charger can look slow to start. It is the law working, not a fault.
Public and customer charge points
Public charge points and rapid chargers of 50kW or more sit outside the smart charging rules. They fall under the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 instead, which require the operator of a new public charger of 8kW or more to accept contactless payment.
If you want to bill staff, tenants or customers, the charger needs payment or user authorisation built in, plus a back office account with the charger maker's software to set the tariff. We help you choose hardware that does what you need.
Tell us who will plug in and we will match the charger, the rules and the grant before you spend anything. Call 07304 027013.
EV chargers in a leased unit or on a shared supply
On a leased unit or a multi let estate, the lease decides more than the wiring: whose supply feeds the charger, who owns it at the end of the lease, and whether the parking is yours. Settle those first, then design for the bays you will want in three years, not only the ones you need now.
Landlord and tenant: what to agree first
- Whose supply? Your own demise or the landlord's common supply. That decides who pays for the electricity and whether sub metering is needed.
- Who owns it at lease end? If it stays, it may count as a landlord improvement. If it goes, the reinstatement is usually yours.
- Is the parking demised to you? The Workplace Charging Scheme needs dedicated off road parking you own or have consent to use.
- Written consent from the landlord for the alteration, before work starts.
We do not read leases, but we give both sides the technical facts the decision needs: the supply route, the metering, the reinstatement and the cost.
Sub metering, ducting and bay layout
Where a charger sits on a landlord's or shared supply, we design in sub metering so the electricity can be recharged accurately rather than estimated.
If a trench is open across the car park, spare ducting for the next phase costs far less now than digging the same route again. We also plan where the cable reaches, bollards or wheel stops, and accessible bays before the concrete goes in. If you are refitting the premises anyway, the charger supply belongs in the fit out design rather than added afterwards. See our electrical fit outs page.
Once fitted, the charger circuit is part of your fixed installation. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, regulation 4(2), require it to be maintained to prevent danger, so it is inspected in your periodic commercial EICR and fixed wire testing, which we carry out from £200 + VAT.
Bring the lease questions to the survey. We price the supply route, metering and ducting so you and your landlord can decide on facts. For the full order of decisions, read our guide to planning EV charge points for a business, or call 07304 027013.
Do workplace EV chargers need planning permission in Scotland?
Usually not. Scotland's permitted development order covers wall chargers and charging posts in an off street car park with a hard surface, within limits on size and distance from the road.
The permitted development limits
- Class 9E, wall mounted: the outlet and casing under 0.5 cubic metres, and not facing onto a road within 2 metres of it
- Class 9F, posts: up to 2.7 metres high in a car park, not within 2 metres of a road, one post per space
- Equipment housings next to posts have their own limits, and the kit must be removed and the ground made good when no longer used for charging
A listed building still needs listed building consent for anything fixed to it. Your planning authority is Aberdeen City Council in the city and Aberdeenshire Council in the shire.
Warrants, and the English rules that do not apply
New buildings and major renovations in Scotland have carried EV charging requirements in the building regulations since 5 June 2023, so chargers in a new build come under that building's warrant. Those mandatory chargers cannot be paid for by the Workplace Charging Scheme.
Part P and Building Control notification are England and Wales rules and do not apply here. What does apply is BS 7671, and every charger we fit gets an Electrical Installation Certificate.
We flag it at survey if your site looks like it needs consent, before you are committed to anything. Call 07304 027013.
Staff bays, a depot or a residents' car park?
Tell us the site and roughly how many vehicles. We survey free and price it in writing.
Who installs commercial EV chargers at Faithful Spark Electricians
Our own team: Steven Watt leads, with Callum working alongside him. Each registration below is public and can be checked.
Work at a live site
We agree an isolation plan before the job is booked: which boards go off, when and for how long, so the rest of the building keeps working. Our hours are Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm.
On a site with no spare capacity, the work often starts with the supply itself, which is where our three phase and distribution board work comes in.
Where we install
Commercial sites in the North East of Scotland: Aberdeen and its business parks, and the whole of Aberdeenshire from our Peterhead base. For other electrical work at your premises, see our commercial electrician in Aberdeen page, or our commercial electrician in Peterhead and commercial electrician in Fraserburgh pages for the Buchan coast. Lighting the car park or yard around the bays as well? See our commercial lighting installation page.
Staff who want a charger at home too can book home EV charger installation in Aberdeenshire with us.
Commercial EV charger questions
Not answered here? Call 07304 027013, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm or Saturday 9am to 1pm.
How much does it cost to install commercial EV chargers?
A single commercial charge point costs £800 to £1,500 + VAT installed with us. Sites with two or more bays, fleet depots and landlord car parks are priced after a free survey, because the cable route, load management and supply capacity decide the figure. The written price usually follows within one working day.
What is the cost to install a commercial EV charging point after the grant?
Take a single socket priced at £1,000 + VAT, which is £1,200 with VAT. The Workplace Charging Scheme pays up to 75% of the cost including VAT, capped at £500 a socket, so the grant is £500 and £700 including VAT is left to pay. A twin socket unit can claim up to £1,000.
Do we need 7kW or 22kW chargers?
For cars parked all day, 7kW on a single phase circuit is enough, and two 7kW sockets usually serve a workplace better than one 22kW. A 22kW charger needs a three phase supply and suits short stays, such as visitor bays or vans returning mid shift. Many cars only accept 7kW or 11kW on AC.
Will our supply cope with several chargers?
Often yes, with load management, which shares the capacity the building already has between the chargers. Where it cannot, SSEN can upgrade most small businesses to three phase up to 69kVA, and gives a costed quote above 70kVA. We check the supply at survey and notify SSEN of the new load.
Who applies for the Workplace Charging Scheme, us or the installer?
Your organisation applies online after the site survey and receives a voucher, usually within 5 working days. The voucher lasts 180 days and the scheme is funded until 31 March 2027. Once the chargers are fitted, the OZEV authorised installer claims the grant. Ours is EVHS/WCS14254.
Can we install EV chargers at a leased business unit?
Yes, with the landlord's written consent. Agree first whose supply feeds the charger, who owns it at the end of the lease and whether the parking is demised to you, because the Workplace Charging Scheme needs dedicated parking. Where the charger is on a shared supply we fit sub metering so the electricity can be recharged.
Do workplace EV chargers need planning permission in Scotland?
Usually not. Classes 9E and 9F of the Scottish permitted development order cover wall chargers and charging posts in an off street car park with a hard surface, within size limits and away from the road edge. A listed building still needs listed building consent. Part P and Building Control notification do not apply in Scotland.
Get a fixed price for your commercial EV chargers
Call 07304 027013 or use the form. Give us the site address, how many bays and what parks in them: staff cars, vans, tenants or visitors. We will survey free, tell you which grant fits, and put a fixed price in writing, usually within one working day.
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Faithful Spark Electricians Ltd, 17 Thomson Road, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB42 3FJ. Registered in Scotland SC821028. NICEIC Approved Contractor 620239. TrustMark 4205123. OZEV authorised installer EVHS/WCS14254. Tesla approved and Evec approved installer for EV chargers. Prices exclude VAT. Grant figures are from gov.uk as checked on 13 October 2026; OZEV sets the rules and can change them.