Ruben Stolk· Co-founder~2 min readConnecting Victron to Joulo for ERE registration
Connect your Victron system to Joulo through VRM for ERE registration. The EV Charging Station has no built-in MID meter yet • we are waiting for a MID charger from Victron itself. Until then, ERE requires a MID upgrade or a SAP.
Victron joins the line-up. If you run a Victron system with Venus OS, you can now connect your EV Charging Station to Joulo through VRM. Joulo then reads your charging sessions automatically, so there is nothing left to track by hand.
What is Victron?
Victron Energy is a Dutch manufacturer of energy systems: inverters, home batteries, solar charge controllers and the Venus OS management platform. The Victron EV Charging Station is their charger, which you control and read out together with your solar panels and home battery through VRM (Victron Remote Management). Joulo uses that VRM data to process your charging sessions for EREs (Emission Reduction Units).
How to connect Victron to Joulo
In Joulo you pick Victron and paste a personal access token that you create once at vrm.victronenergy.com. The token does not expire and you can revoke it at any time. After that, Joulo fetches the energy data of your EV Charging Station in the background and reconstructs complete charging sessions from it, retroactively too.
Important: Joulo only reads your charging data. We do not control your charger and cannot start or stop your charging.
Does the Victron EV Charging Station count for ERE registration
Honest answer: not by itself. The Victron EV Charging Station (NS) has no built-in MID-certified meter. For ERE registration only energy charged through a MID-metered delivery point counts, so the sessions from this charger cannot simply be registered.
Good news for the future: we are in contact with Victron and waiting for a charger with a built-in MID meter from Victron itself. As soon as it arrives, your Victron sessions will count and you will not need to do anything extra.
If you want to participate today, there are two proper routes:
- A quote for an upgrade to a charger with a built-in MID meter.
- A Secondary Allocation Point (SAP) from your grid operator, with a one-off connection cost and a small monthly fee.
For residential home charging only the metered delivery point itself counts, so a separate external meter is deliberately not one of the options. The VRM connection stays useful either way: your data is ready, and as soon as you have a MID meter your sessions count.
Technical details
| Item | Victron + Joulo |
|---|---|
| Connection method | Personal access token through VRM |
| Works for | EV Charging Station (NS) and compatible setups in Venus OS |
| Data source | Victron VRM, energy data converted into charging sessions |
| Session data | Fetched automatically, retroactively too |
| MID check | EV Charging Station NS has no built-in MID meter • MID upgrade or SAP required |
| Control | Joulo only reads data, we do not control your charger |
| Onboarding | Connect Victron |
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Co-founder of Joulo and builder of the platform. Previously Capptions (compliance infrastructure). Writes about engineering, integrations and MID meters.
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