How much does a home charging station cost in 2026? All costs at a glance

How much does a home charger cost? The honest answer: less than you sometimes read online, but more than just the price of the charger itself. The biggest price difference is not in the brand. It lies in your fuse box and the distance between that fuse box and where your car is parked.

Below we list all the costs: the charger itself, the installation, load balancing, and a possible upgrade of your connection. With three calculation examples, and what a charger will earn you afterwards.

Table of Contents

• How much does the charger itself cost?
• How much does the installation cost?
• Load balancing: €30 to €120
• Single-phase or three-phase: do you need an upgrade?
• Is there a subsidy for a home charger?
• Three calculation examples
• How much will you earn back?
• Where people spend money unnecessarily
• Frequently asked questions

How much does the charger itself cost?

For a good home charger from a reputable brand, you will pay between €600 and €1,300 in 2026. The power, 11 or 22 kW, has less impact on the price of the charger itself than you might think. What does matter:

• A MID meter. You need this certified meter if you want to claim charging costs from your employer or leasing company, or if you want to receive money back via ERE certificates. Between comparable models, that can easily make a difference of €150 to €250.
• Fixed cable or socket. A charger with a socket does not have its own cable. If you did not receive a usable Type 2 charging cable with your car, expect to pay an extra €150 to €230 for a separate charging cable.
• Extras, such as a display, a 4G connection, or an RFID reader. Useful if multiple people use the charger.

Prices from our webshop, price level November 1, 2026.

How much does the installation cost?

A charger always gets its own circuit in the fuse box, with its own circuit breaker and residual current device. This is not advice but a requirement of NEN 1010, the standard for electrical installations. A standard installation therefore consists of a new circuit in your fuse box, a cable to the charger, mounting and connection, and setting up and testing with your car.

For this, you usually pay €500 to €1,000. This makes it more expensive:

• Distance. Every meter of cable between the fuse box and the charger costs material and time. For 22 kW, a thicker cable is also required than for 11 kW.
• The route. A hole through the facade is different from a cable through the crawl space, under the paving, or across the garden.
• No wall at your parking spot. Then the charger goes on a mounting pole with a base. Expect €250 to €500 for the material, plus the excavation work.
• A full or outdated fuse box. If there is no room for an extra circuit, the box must be expanded or replaced.
• The type of residual current device. NEN 1010 requires a type B residual current device per charging point, or a standard type A in combination with 6 mA DC leakage current detection. If that detection is already built into the charger, as with Peblar, Zaptec Go 2, Alfen, and Easee, then a type A is sufficient. That makes a difference, because a type B is considerably more expensive.

Load balancing: €30 to €120

Load balancing ensures that your charger never requests more power than your connection can handle. If you are cooking on induction while the heat pump is running, the car will charge a bit more slowly. Without load balancing, the charger is often set to a low, fixed power, or you run the risk of blowing your main fuse.

It is a small investment. A HomeWizard P1 Meter for a Peblar costs €30, a Zaptec Sense P1 €75, and an Easee Equalizer P1 €119. That is almost always cheaper than an upgrade. Which module belongs with which charger can be seen in our load balancing collection.

Single-phase or three-phase: do you need an upgrade?

With a three-phase connection (3x25A), you almost always charge with 11 kW. If you still have single-phase, as many older homes do, you have two options.

Option 1: just charge on single-phase

On a 1x25A connection, you charge at about 3.7 kW. That sounds like little, but just calculate: in ten hours at night, that is 37 kWh, enough for over 200 kilometers. An average car drives about 12,000 kilometers per year in the Netherlands, over 30 kilometers per day. For most people, single-phase is therefore enough, especially with load balancing.

Option 2: upgrade to 3x25A

For upgrading from single-phase to 3x25A, the grid operator charges a one-time fee of about €260 to €370 in 2026, depending on whether you are with Stedin, Enexis, or Liander. Your fuse box also needs to be made suitable for three-phase, usually for €600 to €900. Your fixed monthly costs remain the same at 3x25A. If you go to an even heavier connection, 3x35A or more, your fixed costs increase according to Gaslicht by over €1,000 per year.

Is there a subsidy for a home charger?

Not nationwide. For private individuals, there is no nationwide subsidy for a home charger in 2026. A single municipality or province has its own scheme, so it doesn't hurt to check the website of your municipality.

However, a charger can pay for itself in another way. With a MID meter, you have the electricity for your lease car reimbursed by your employer. And since 2026, you can get money back for charging at home via ERE certificates. That is not a subsidy but a reimbursement via the market. How that works, you can read in our article about ERE certificates in 2026.

Three calculation examples

To make it concrete, three situations that often occur. The chargers and components come from our webshop (price level November 1, 2026). For the installation, we use common market prices; what it costs you depends on your fuse box and the cable route.

1. Row house with three-phase, charger next to the front door

The fuse box is in the hallway at the front, the car is parked on private property in front of the house, and you do not need a MID meter.

2. Semi-detached house with driveway and a lease car

The car is parked on the driveway, twelve meters from the fuse box. There is no wall nearby, so the charger goes on a pole. You want to have your charging current reimbursed by your employer, so you need a MID meter.

You will earn back the MID meter quickly here. If your employer only reimburses measured kWh, then at 2,000 kWh per year, that is about €480 worth of charging electricity.

3. Older home with single-phase

You have a 1x25A connection and are wondering if you need an upgrade.

The Zaptec Go 2 charges on both single-phase and three-phase. If you start on single-phase and upgrade later, you do not need to replace the charger.

How much will you earn back?

Charging at home is considerably cheaper than at a public charging station. Milieu Centraal calculates an average of about 24 cents per kWh for charging at home in 2026, compared to 49 cents at a public charging station and 70 cents at a fast charger. For a medium-sized car that drives 12,000 kilometers per year, that comes out to:

Source: Milieu Centraal, 2026.

If you currently charge everything publicly, you will save about €750 per year with a home charger. You will have earned back the cost of a charger of €1,500 including installation in about two years. If you have solar panels, it will be even faster, especially now that the net metering scheme is ending.

Where people spend money unnecessarily

• A 22 kW installation that you never utilize. A 22 kW charger is fine, but charging at 22 kW at home is rarely possible: 3x32A is required for that, and most homes with three-phase have 3x25A. Have the installation tailored to what your car and your connection can really handle. How many kW your car can charge, you can read in how to choose the right charger.
• Upgrading when load balancing is sufficient. A P1 meter of €30 to €120 is much cheaper than an upgrade, and you do not have to wait on a waiting list for it.
• Placing a pole when there is a wall. A charger on the facade is almost always cheaper than a freestanding pole with excavation work.
• Not taking a MID meter now and regretting it later. You cannot install a MID meter in your charger afterwards. If there is a chance you will get a company car within a few years, take it now.

Frequently asked questions about the costs of a charger

Sources

• Milieu Centraal – Charging an electric car (charging station and charging costs)
• Gaslicht – Costs of a 3-phase connection per grid operator (2026)
• VNG – Waiting list for small consumers from July 1, 2026
• Promovendum – Subsidy for a home charging station in 2026
• Selectra – Market prices for home charging stations and installation (2026)
• NEN – NEN 1010, the standard for low-voltage installations