Eligible expenses for multiple dwelling building charging stations

The expenses must be incurred in a project that includes the acquisition and the installation of multiple dwelling building charging stations.

The expenses submitted must be necessary and justifiable. They must be directly related to the acquisition of and installation work pertaining to multiple dwelling building charging stations. 

Eligible expenses include:

• the cost of purchasing or leasing long term the eligible charging stations;
• the cost of installing the eligible charging stations and the requisite electricity supply infrastructure, i.e., labour and the necessary material;
• the cost of installing electrical supply and distribution infrastructure for the charging stations that will be installed subsequently to meet future charging needs (oversizing).

New types of expenses have also been eligible since April 18, 2023:

• professional honoraria to design charging solutions and prepare the plans and specifications;
• the cost of acquiring a device or software to manage the energy consumed to charge electric vehicles;
• the cost of the permits required to carry out the installation work. 

The eligible expenses must have been paid when the financial assistance application is submitted, except for the remaining charging station leasing costs.

To be eligible, the charging stations must have been purchased and installed after January 1, 2020.

Additional conditions apply:

• Work related to the oversizing of electrical infrastructure must have been completed after January 1, 2021.
• Expenses incurred to design charging solutions and to prepare the plans and specifications must be related to work completed after April 18, 2023.
• The cost of acquiring a device or software to manage the eligible energy must be related to work completed after April 18, 2023.  
• The costs of the permits required to carry out the installation work must be related to the work completed after April 18, 2023.  

You can carry out your charging station installation project while providing for the future charging needs of your clientele.

Electrical supply and distribution infrastructure can be oversized to be compatible with the greatest number of charging stations in the future even if, initially, only a few charging stations will be installed.

The cost of labour and material related to the oversizing are eligible expenses only if the applicant is a building developer, owner, or manager, or a syndicate of co-owners.

To be eligible, the work related to the installation of electricity supply infrastructure for the charging stations must be performed by an electrical contractor, as stipulated in the Québec Construction Code.

The following expenses are ineligible:

• spare or reserve parts and maintenance costs;
• charging station accessories including a charging port protector or theft protection;
• expenses related to the operation of the charging station, including network and maintenance management fees, and extended warranties;
• lighting;
• electricity expenses;
• expenses related to the leasing of land, immovables, and other facilities, equipment leasing other than the equipment associated with the project’s construction, real estate brokerage fees, and related costs;
• expenses related to the design of the parking lot and sidewalks other than the reconstruction of the sections damaged by the installation work;
• taxes (GST and QST).