IN Brief:
- Installers have until 26 May 2026 to claim under three closed OZEV EV chargepoint grant schemes.
- The affected schemes cover staff and fleets, commercial landlords, and residential landlord infrastructure.
- Resubmissions can be made until 6 July where further evidence is requested, unless an earlier portal deadline applies.
The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles is approaching the final installer claims deadline for three EV chargepoint grant schemes that closed to customer applications on 31 March 2026.
Installers have until 26 May 2026 to submit claims under the staff and fleets grant, the commercial landlord chargepoint grant, and the residential landlord infrastructure grant. Where further evidence is requested, claims can be resubmitted until 6 July 2026, unless the current deadline shown on the portal is earlier.
The three schemes formed part of the previous OZEV support structure for workplace, commercial landlord, and residential landlord charging infrastructure. Although customer applications closed at the end of March, the claims window remained open so that eligible installations and supporting evidence could be completed through the existing process.
As the deadline approaches, installers working on eligible projects have a narrow administrative window to protect grant funding. Claim numbers, installer authorisation details, scheme references, photographs, customer information, and supporting documents all need to be complete enough to avoid avoidable queries. A technically compliant installation can still lose funding where the claim process is incomplete or late.
The closure of the legacy schemes sits alongside a wider restructuring of home and workplace EV charging support from 1 April 2026. OZEV has extended five grant schemes until 31 March 2027, with new grant rates. The maximum grant for residents and landlords under the flats and renters and residential landlord chargepoint grants increased from £350 to £500 per socket, while the Workplace Charging Scheme also increased from £350 to £500 per socket for eligible installations completed from 1 April.
Installers active across landlord, workplace, fleet, and multi-occupancy projects may therefore be closing out claims under the previous structure while starting new work under the revised schemes. That creates a practical need for accurate job tracking across application dates, installation dates, claim deadlines, customer type, site type, and evidence requirements.
Evidence requirements have also become more detailed. From 1 April, claims under the flats and renters and landlord chargepoint grants must include photographs showing the installed chargepoint, model and serial number, the chargepoint and associated parking space, and a wider view of the building or space where the chargepoint has been installed. Distributed charging infrastructure is now being checked with a level of documentation more often associated with larger funded infrastructure programmes.
Commercial and residential charging installations are also becoming more varied. Some projects remain relatively straightforward single- or low-socket installations, while others involve multi-bay car parks, landlord-owned sites, shared parking, load management, meter changes, distribution board upgrades, cable routes, and coordination with other building services. Grant administration has to sit alongside those electrical and site requirements, rather than being treated as an afterthought once the installation is complete.
Higher-power charging rollouts are developing in parallel. B&Q and RAW Charging’s ultra-rapid network rollout shows the direction of larger commercial charging infrastructure, where site selection, incoming supply, civils, high-power equipment, payment systems, and maintenance access are planned as part of a wider electrical package. Landlord and workplace grants sit at a smaller scale, but both parts of the market are moving toward more structured delivery and stronger evidence trails.
For installation businesses, the near-term priority is the clean closure of legacy claims. Jobs completed under the previous schemes need to be matched with the correct voucher, evidence set, and claim route before the 26 May deadline. Where OZEV requests more information, the resubmission period to 6 July gives some room for correction, but only where the original claim has been submitted in time and the portal deadline permits further action.
As EV charging moves from early adoption into routine infrastructure work, grant compliance is becoming part of project delivery. Electrical design, safe installation, commissioning, customer handover, and claim documentation now sit in the same workflow, and missing any one of those steps can affect the commercial outcome of the job.
Installer guidance for the closing schemes and current grant processes is available through the government’s EV chargepoint grant guidance for installers.