Energy at home
Installing an EV charger at home in 2026: what has changed with the grants
If you are looking into fitting a charging point and have read about the MOVES scheme, there is something you should know before going further: in Andalusia you can no longer apply. Here is what is left and what is worth checking.
Let us start with what causes most confusion. The MOVES III scheme closed its application windows in Andalusia during 2025, so in 2026 no new applications are accepted under that programme. A good deal of the information still circulating online is out of date.
What does still apply is the 15% IRPF (Spanish income tax) deduction for installing a charging point, extended until 31 December 2026.
And be careful with the Auto+ scheme, approved in July 2026 with €400 million: it subsidises the vehicle, not the charger installation. They are different things and they get mixed up constantly in conversation.
What really drives the cost
People ask about the price of the charger. In practice, what moves the budget is almost never the unit itself.
The distance between the consumer unit and the parking space. Ten metres along a wall is nothing like forty metres of trunking through a communal garage.
The available power. Charging at 7.4 kW while the oven and the air conditioning are running may force you to increase your contracted power, and that is a fixed monthly cost for good. Here a device many people have never heard of comes in: a load balancer, which automatically reduces charging power when the rest of the house is drawing heavily. It usually works out far cheaper than raising your contracted power.
And if you live in a block, the paperwork.
In a block you do not need the owners' meeting to approve it: you only have to notify them.
If you live in a block of flats
This is where most people get stuck, and almost always through misinformation.
To install a charging point in your own space you do not need the owners' meeting to approve it. You simply have to notify the community beforehand. It is not a vote, it is a notification.
That said, our experience is that being upfront saves grief. Presenting the plan, explaining where the trunking will run and who is covering the cost heads off half the arguments.
The other common hold-up is more mundane: getting hold of the CUPS (your supply point reference number) and access to the account with your supplier. We have seen cases of people who had not been able to get into their account for years and could not move forward because of it. If that happens to you, say so at the start and we will sort it out before any work begins.
Charging on sunshine or charging from the grid
An electric car adds significant consumption and, above all, fairly predictable consumption. That makes it the best possible companion to self-consumption.
If you can charge during the day, your car runs practically on your own generation. If you can only charge at night, you depend on the grid, and there what matters is having a good time-band tariff, not more panels.
That is why, when someone asks us for a charger and panels at the same time, our first question is what time they park at home. It completely changes the design of the installation.
And if you already have panels, integrating the charger so it prioritises surplus is one of the things you notice most: you are literally charging on what you were about to give away to the grid.
