We install 7.4kW smart EV chargers at homes, farms and holiday lets across Aberdeenshire, from £900 + VAT with up to 15 metres of cable, including the long runs to detached garages and outbuildings that rural properties need. Every job starts with a free survey of your earthing, supply and cable route, and standard installs are usually booked within 5 to 10 working days. Call 07304 027013 for a fixed written price.
A home EV charger installed anywhere in Aberdeenshire costs £900 to £1,300 + VAT with Faithful Spark Electricians, for a 7.4kW smart unit on a single phase supply with a cable run of up to 15 metres. Rural jobs differ from town jobs in four places: the earthing (many country properties run on their own earth rod), the distance from the fuse board to where the car parks, the size of the main fuse, and whether SSEN has to look at the supply first. We check all four at a free survey and put the answer in a fixed written quote, usually within one working day.
Our own team, led by Steven Watt with Callum alongside him, works out of 17 Thomson Road in Peterhead. There is no travel surcharge for addresses within about an hour of Peterhead. For remote rural Aberdeenshire a small travel charge may apply, and it is confirmed when you book, never added afterwards. Call 07304 027013, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm or Saturday 9am to 1pm.
The charger brand matters less than you would think. On a farmhouse, a cottage or a house at the end of a long drive, these four checks set the price, the design and the date.
Overhead lines feed a lot of the countryside, and many of those homes have their own earth rod rather than an earth from SSEN. Village and town houses are mostly PME. Each needs a different approach for an outdoor charger.
A steading, a detached garage or a yard can put the car 20 or 30 metres from the board. Length sets the cable size, and the cable size sets most of the extra cost.
A charger draws about 32A. Older country homes with a smaller main fuse, an electric shower, storage heaters or a heat pump may need load management so the supply is never overloaded.
We tell SSEN about every charger. A looped supply shared with a neighbour, or a cut out or main fuse not fit for the extra load, means SSEN assess it before we fit.
You can start the survey from your sofa: send us photos of the fuse board, the meter, the incoming supply and where you park, and we will tell you what to expect before we visit. Call 07304 027013.
Same packages and prices as our town work. What a rural property adds is listed underneath, so you can see where your quote will land before we arrive.
| What you are buying | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 7.4kW smart charger, fitted | £900 to £1,300 + VAT | Single phase supply, up to 15 metres of cable, certificate and SSEN notification |
| Smart package (Ohme Home Pro or TeltoCharge) | from £995 + VAT | App scheduling and tariff control, 3 year warranty |
| Premium solar ready (Hypervolt Home 3 Pro or myenergi Zappi) | from £1,195 + VAT | Solar surplus charging and load management, 3 year warranty |
| New consumer unit with the charger | £750 to £1,000 + VAT | For the board work, done on the same visit when the old board cannot take the circuit |
| Cable beyond 15 metres | measured at survey | Priced on the real route, cable size and whether it is buried |
| Trench and reinstatement | quoted at survey | Or dig it yourself to our depth and we price the electrical work only |
| Earth electrode | quoted at survey | Only where your supply and your charger need one |
| Travel | none within about an hour of Peterhead | A small charge for remote rural addresses, confirmed at booking |
Every charger we fit is smart, as the Electric Vehicle (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 require, and solar ready, so it can charge from your own panels when you add them. Want the full picture of what drives the price? Read our guide to EV charger installation cost in Scotland.
A charger can go almost anywhere on a rural property, including a detached garage, a steading or a post at the end of the drive. The limit is voltage drop. BS 7671 caps how far the voltage may fall along a circuit, so every extra metre means a thicker cable, and cable buried in the ground has to be thicker again because it cannot shed heat the way cable clipped to a wall can.
Past a short run, we rarely design one long dedicated circuit. The better job is armoured cable out to a small board in the garage or outbuilding, with the charger fed from that board. It costs a little more on the day, but the building then has power for lights, sockets or a second charger later, and the trench is only dug once.
If the run passes an older board on the way, we look at that too. Our guide on does your consumer unit need upgrading for an EV charger explains when the board has to change, and our page on consumer unit upgrade in Aberdeenshire covers replacing the whole board.
How your property is earthed decides how the charger is protected, and in Aberdeenshire you can meet both main systems on the same road.
What we do: we identify your earthing at survey, test what is there, and choose a charger with built in open PEN protection where that avoids a rod. Every charge point gets its own 30mA RCD of at least Type A, with 6mA DC fault detection. If you already have a charger that went in under the old exception, we can inspect it. Call 07304 027013.
Send a photo of where the supply cable enters the house and of your fuse board. We can usually tell from that and quote with the right earthing from the start.
A sensor clamped on the incoming cables measures what the whole house is drawing, and the charger turns itself down when the shower or the immersion is on. On most homes with a smaller main fuse this avoids an upgrade altogether. Where an upgrade is genuinely needed, SSEN quote and carry it out, and we tell you their figure rather than guessing it.
SSEN is the network operator for the north of Scotland, and we notify it of every charger we fit. Older rural connections are where an application before the work is most likely: a looped service shared with the cottage next door, an old cut out, or a main fuse too small for the new load. We check this at survey, so the date we give you already allows for it.
A 22kW charger needs a three phase supply, and plenty of farms already have one for dryers, workshops or pumps. Be wary of paying for speed you cannot use: many cars accept 11kW at most on AC, and some only 7.4kW, so check your car's onboard charger first. Three phase earns its keep by spreading charging across the phases and around the farm's other loads.
A charger for guests or customers is a business installation. It wants access control so passing traffic cannot use it, and metering for each session so you can see what each stay used. A single workplace chargepoint starts from £800 + VAT, and our page on commercial EV charger installation for farms and businesses covers multi bay sites.
For most drivers, 7.4kW. It adds roughly 7kWh for every hour plugged in, about three times a household socket, so a short off peak window still covers a long rural commute. A slower setup is fine for low mileage, and where the supply is tight or the run is very long, the chargers we fit can be capped at a lower current at commissioning. We will tell you honestly if a lower setting suits your property.
Your charger still charges. Regulation 7 of the Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021 says a smart charger must stay able to charge a car if it loses its connection. You lose app scheduling while it is offline, not the charging. At survey we check the signal where the charger will sit and suggest the best way to connect it.
For renters and flat owners, yes. For a homeowner with a driveway, not at the moment. Here is where each scheme stands.
Since 1 April 2026 it pays 75% of the cost of a home chargepoint, up to £500 per socket, and it is funded to 31 March 2027. It covers renters, flat owners and leaseholders with private off street parking and the owner's or freeholder's permission. Homeowners with their own driveway have not qualified since April 2022. We are OZEV authorised, so we claim it and take it off your invoice.
Home Energy Scotland's domestic charge point funding, which was aimed at rural, remote and island households under an income cap, is closed. When we checked the official page on 6 October 2026 it said so, and offered to register interest in a future round. We will not build a quote around funding that is not open.
If you rent a cottage with its own parking space, the UK grant may cover you with your landlord's permission. If you own a holiday let, the charger is a business asset, so the domestic grants do not apply, and we will point you to the right workplace route.
Real jobs, photographed on the day with the customers' permission.
We are based in Peterhead and cover the whole county. These towns have their own EV pages with local detail.
Inverurie, Kintore, Balmedie, Mintlaw, Cruden Bay, Hatton, Newburgh, Oldmeldrum, Turriff and the farms and villages between them. Mintlaw and Cruden Bay are a short drive from our Peterhead base. All of these sit in Aberdeenshire Council's area, not Aberdeen City Council's. For anything other than a charger, see our page for an electrician in Aberdeenshire, and if you live inside the city boundary, go to EV charger installation in Aberdeen.
Out in the county, one visit that does several jobs saves you a second day off and us a second trip.
The Zappi and Hypervolt Home 3 Pro can put surplus solar into the car instead of exporting it. If panels are on your list, we can design both together. See solar panel installation in Aberdeenshire.
Rewireable fuses, no RCD protection or no spare way usually means the board changes first. We do the board and the charger on the same visit, with the board work at £750 to £1,000 + VAT.
If the wiring has not been tested for years, an EICR in Aberdeenshire before the charger goes in shows the condition of everything the new circuit will join.
Any competent electrician may legally fit a charger, but a rural install asks more of them: testing an earth rod, sizing a long buried run, and knowing when SSEN must be involved. We are an OZEV authorised installer (EVHS/WCS14254), a NICEIC Approved Contractor (620239), TrustMark registered (4205123), and a Tesla approved and Evec approved installer for EV chargers, so a Tesla Wall Connector or an Evec unit is fitted to the maker's standard.
Steven Watt leads the team, with Callum working alongside him. Steven holds City and Guilds 2921-34 in EV charging installation, 2391-52 for inspection and testing, 2382-22 for BS 7671 and 2365-03 for electrical installations. Faithful Spark Electricians Ltd is registered in Scotland as SC821028, carries £2M public liability insurance, and certifies every charger to BS 7671:2018+A4:2026.
"From the initial meeting we were impressed with the work and professionalism. Steven turned up exactly as scheduled and kept constant communication throughout. Would have no hesitation recommending Faithful Spark."Brian McMenemy, Peterhead, Google review. Rated 5.0 from 100+ reviews: read them on Google.
Last updated 6 October 2026.
Something else on your mind? Call 07304 027013 or send us a message and we reply the same working day.
With us, a 7.4kW smart home charger costs £900 to £1,300 + VAT fitted, with up to 15 metres of cable. The Smart package starts at £995 + VAT and the Premium solar ready package at £1,195 + VAT. On a rural property the usual extras are a longer cable run, a trench, an earth electrode or a new consumer unit, and each is priced at the free survey.
We quote a fixed price for the whole installation, so a long day on a farm job does not change the figure you agreed. Other electrical work also gets a clear price before any work starts.
The UK chargepoint grant pays 75% of the cost, up to £500 per socket, for renters, flat owners and leaseholders with private off street parking, and is funded to 31 March 2027. Homeowners with a driveway do not qualify. Home Energy Scotland's domestic charge point funding was closed when we checked on 6 October 2026. If you qualify for the UK grant, we claim it for you.
A 7.4kW charger suits most drivers because it fills the car in a short off peak window. A slower rate is enough for low daily mileage, and on a property with a small main fuse or a very long cable run, we can cap the charger at a lower current. We recommend the setting at survey.
Any competent electrician can legally do the work, but chargers have their own section of the wiring regulations, Section 722 of BS 7671. To claim the UK grant the installer must be OZEV authorised. We are OZEV authorised (EVHS/WCS14254), NICEIC registered (620239), and Steven Watt holds City and Guilds 2921-34 in EV charging installation.
Yes. A TT supply with its own earth rod is common on rural Aberdeenshire properties and is a normal system to fit a charger to. We test the rod and the RCD disconnection times, and replace or add a rod if the readings are poor. The charger gets its own 30mA RCD.
Yes. We normally run armoured cable out to a small board in the building and feed the charger from there, so the building also has power for lights and sockets. The distance is measured at survey and the cable is sized for it.
Standard installs are usually booked within 5 to 10 working days, and urgent work within 2 to 5. If SSEN has to assess your supply first, the date depends on SSEN, and we tell you that at survey.
Yes. The Smart Charge Points Regulations require a charger to keep charging if it loses its connection. You lose app scheduling while it is offline, but not the ability to charge.
Call 07304 027013, message us on WhatsApp or use the form. Tell us your town or village, roughly how far the parking is from the fuse board, and whether the supply comes in on poles or underground. We will arrange a free survey and send a fixed written price, usually within one working day.
Faithful Spark Electricians Ltd · 17 Thomson Road, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB42 3FJ · NICEIC Approved Contractor 620239 · TrustMark Registered 4205123 · OZEV Authorised Installer EVHS/WCS14254 · Tesla Approved and Evec Approved for EV chargers · City and Guilds 2921-34, 2391-52, 2382-22, 2365-03 · BS 7671:2018+A4:2026 · £2M public liability insured · Company SC821028 · VAT 503 6560 13
