Electric Vehicles (EV) home charger grant statistics: FOI release

Information requested

1. Amount of Funding: The total amount of funding allocated for EV home charger installations, broken down by postcode area.

2. Number of Chargers: The total number of EV chargers installed under these grant schemes, again broken down by postcode area.

3. Type of Property: Information on the types of properties where these chargers have been installed (e.g., detached house, apartment, terraced house), categorized by postcode area.

4. Type of Chargers: The types of chargers (e.g., fast chargers, regular chargers) installed under these grants, if available.

5. Time Frame: Please provide this data for the period from 2014 to the present date.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested.

The answer to your questions 1,2 and 5 is:

We are unable to provide the information you have requested as there is a likelihood that this information may enable individual homes, and therefore people, to be identified which we are unable to do in strict accordance with data privacy rules. I have instead attached data based on combined postcode areas which can be found in the attached spreadsheet providing details of installs from 1 January 2014 to 31 January 2024.

3. Type of Property: Information on the types of properties where these chargers have been installed (e.g., detached house, apartment, terraced house), categorized by postcode area.

Neither Transport Scotland nor the Energy Saving Trust who deliver grant funding schemes on behalf of Scottish Ministers hold this information.

4. Type of Chargers: The types of chargers (e.g., fast chargers, regular chargers) installed under these grants, if available.

Charge points installed using the Domestic charge point grant fund are 7kW or up to 7kW (Fast) units.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The reason why we don't have the information is because Energy Saving Trust don't record the property type for domestic charge point installations. One of the conditions of the grant is that funding is only available for the installation of an electric charge point at a residential property based in Scotland with dedicated off-street parking at their property.

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FOI 202400397661 - Information Released - Annex

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