Charge Up EV Charging Grants
Grants towards workplace, fleet and public electric vehicle chargers at Western Australian sites for small and medium businesses, registered not-for-profits and local councils.
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Round 3 has closed. The terms below describe that round, which supported employee commuting, fleets owned by the eligible organisation and primarily used for its activities during operating hours, customer and visitor charging, and chargers open to the wider public. The rules treated customer and visitor chargers as public chargers, so the public-charger requirements below applied to them too.
The grant covered 50% of approved 7–350kW charger purchase costs, with up to four chargers per site and five sites per applicant. It also covered 50% of installation costs, subject to a separate per-site grant cap. Where the largest charger was below 150kW, the installation cap was A$5,000 in Greater Perth and A$10,000 elsewhere in Western Australia. At 150kW or above, these caps were A$10,000 and A$20,000 respectively. Greater Perth follows the Australian Bureau of Statistics definition; all other parts of the state count as regional or remote.
Network works received 50% co-funding, capped at A$150,000 per site for Western Power costs and A$225,000 for Horizon Power costs. Eligible network costs included stand-alone power systems payable to Western Power, Horizon Power or Boundary Power. A two-year subscription to approved software was mandatory and received 50% co-funding. Public and destination chargers also required a two-year maintenance plan, which could form part of installation costs. Grant amounts excluded GST.
The grant excluded running costs such as electricity and internet, staffing, marketing, feasibility studies, approval costs, additional cables, optional bay painting and bollards, and equipment for future charging infrastructure.
Eligibility
These were the Round 3 requirements:
- Businesses needed fewer than 200 employees, including eligible franchisees. Applicants had to declare that they were not part of a corporate group with aggregate turnover above A$250 million. Not-for-profits needed Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission registration; local authorities needed establishment under the Local Government Act 1995.
- Chargers had to be installed in Western Australia. Obtain the landowner’s permission before applying where needed. Eligible business landowners could apply for premises they did not occupy if a substantial proportion of occupants with charger access were eligible organisations. For shared car parks, the FAQ required a majority of occupants with charger access to be eligible organisations.
- Small or medium charge point operators needed to show that installation was not commercially viable without the grant and that a substantial proportion of site occupants with access were eligible organisations. Their applications went to the steering committee, which could reduce the grant if less than 50% support made installation viable.
- Home-based businesses, residential customers, state or federal government-owned entities, political organisations and unions were excluded. Organisations could not apply on another organisation’s behalf; this included auspicing organisations, property managers acting for owners or tenants, and developers or builders applying for sites under development.
- Hardware and software had to come from the approved lists. Charger size had to suit the intended use: generally AC chargers up to 22kW for employees, AC or smaller DC chargers up to 50kW for visitors, and DC chargers of 50kW or more for fleets and charging open to the wider public. Another size could be approved if the applicant demonstrated why it was necessary.
- Charging had to favour daytime (9am–5pm) or overnight (9pm–9am) over the evening peak (5pm–9pm). The FAQ advised higher evening prices for public chargers rather than slowing or switching them off. Fleet and employee charging should avoid the evening peak unless operational needs required it; exceptions could be considered for operational requirements or appropriate alternatives.
- Network costs were generally expected not to exceed 50% of project costs. Disproportionately expensive network works could be rejected, with exceptions for areas with unusually high network costs.
Recipients had to maintain the approved software subscription for two years, maintain public chargers for at least two years, and keep the charging infrastructure in place and operational for five years. They had to request that the installer submit a Notice of Completion to Building and Energy, and provide charging-use data on request for two years from installation. They also had to cooperate with information requests and audits, allow site access, and permit data use and sharing for programme assessment and charger registration.
Project changes needed approval before they were undertaken. Non-compliance could lead to withholding or repayment; ineligible payments and overpayments had to be repaid within 28 business days of a demand.
How to apply
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- Round 3 has closed.
- Applications were assessed until the deadline or earlier exhaustion of funds.
- The application deadline was before 5pm on 30 June 2025.
Round 3 is closed. Use Energy Policy WA’s programme page to sign up for Charge Up updates.
Round 3 applications used SmartyGrants, with a separate application for each site. Before applying, applicants needed independent, itemised quotes for approved hardware, installation and a two-year software subscription, plus a two-year maintenance plan for public chargers. Quotes had to come from an approved software supplier, an electrical contractor or an EV charger installer. Network upgrade quotes came from the network operator; an initial assessment could be requested before incurring network design fees.
Do not purchase chargers or begin installation before formal approval: pre-approval expenses were not reimbursable. Applications requesting more than A$75,000 generally had an initial departmental assessment followed by committee assessment; prior assessments could establish a precedent for departmental assessment alone. Larger projects could carry additional reporting obligations and receive milestone payments where essential.
Approved AC chargers had to be installed within 180 days of approval and DC chargers within 18 months. Reimbursement normally followed completion and payment, with final invoices, photographs of the installation and serial numbers, and charger details submitted through the portal. Payment depended on meeting the approved project and grant conditions. Applicants also had to cooperate with eftsure’s bank-detail verification.
Energy Policy WA could consider projects that fell outside individual criteria but substantially met the programme objectives. Contact the Charge Up team at chargeup@deed.wa.gov.au to discuss such circumstances.