EV charging at a commercial site

Sockets are installed in a car park or yard and connected back to the site supply, usually with load management so that the building and the vehicles share what is available.

The commercial case is normally staff retention, fleet operation, tenant expectation or planning, rather than a direct saving on your energy bill.

It suits sites with off street parking, a fleet, or staff and visitors who park for hours rather than minutes.

It suits you less where parking is on street, where dwell time is short, or where the supply is already close to its agreed capacity and reinforcement would be needed.

• -Spare import capacity at the site. Charging adds load, so this is the first question and not the last.
• -Distance from the intake to the parking, because trenching and cable are a real share of the cost.
• -How long vehicles stay, which decides whether slow sockets will do or fast ones are needed.
• -Who owns the car park, and what the lease says about works to it.

The figures Meridians models with. Your building replaces them with its own data as soon as we have it.

Installed cost

from 1,200 to 3,200 per socket

UK commercial market, 2026. The spread is mostly groundworks and distance, not the units themselves.

Cost leads with the low end. Payback leads with the longer one.

The card a client sees, rendered by the application itself.

• -Sockets are specified before the supply is checked, and a capacity upgrade arrives as a surprise.
• -No load management is fitted, so the site trips or the agreed capacity is exceeded and charged for.
• -Ducting is not laid for a second phase, so the ground is opened twice.

• Agreed capacity and network charges
• Solar panels