A secondary allocation point for your charger

Your charging station has no factory-fitted MID meter, so your sessions cannot be registered. There are two routes then, and both are good. One is a charging station with a MID meter inside. The other is a secondary allocation point: your grid operator puts a second, certified meter in your meter cupboard, for your charging station alone. That meter counts, and your charging station can stay.

What a secondary allocation point is

A secondary allocation point is an extra metering point behind your existing connection. It gets its own EAN code and its own smart meter. Your main connection stays exactly as it is: same capacity, same supplier, same bill. Only the power going to your charging station now runs past that second meter.

Grid operators also call it an extra metering point, or MLOEA: several suppliers on one connection. It is existing practice with its own published tariff, not an exception you have to argue for.

Why this works without a MID meter in your charging station

To register ERE credits the energy must be measured by a certified meter. Usually that is the MID meter in your charging station. But your grid operator's meter is certified too, and the rules explicitly allow the metered delivery point as the measurement source (Regeling energie vervoer, article 9).

So this route has one hard rule: your grid operator's meter counts, and the counter in your charging station does not. Not even if your charging station has one. What passes through the secondary allocation point counts. Nothing else.

Note: this is not the same as a separate sub-meter in your meter cupboard. That has never been a valid route for home charging. The difference is that a secondary allocation point is a real delivery point, with its own EAN, installed and maintained by your grid operator.

What it costs

Installation is a one-time charge from your grid operator. The 2026 tariffs, including VAT:

- Liander: € 280.82. Then € 46.06 per year. - Enexis: € 629.09. Then € 30.08 per year. - Stedin: on quotation. If your own installer fits the metering point, Stedin charges nothing for it.

The smart meter itself is free. The yearly amount does not arrive separately: it runs on the bill for your main connection, through your energy supplier.

One cost is often forgotten: every extra metering point needs its own energy contract. So you take out a second contract for that one point, with the supplier you choose. What that costs depends on your supplier. Ask before you apply.

What you keep

Our customers charge 4,100 kWh per year at home on average and keep 12.9 cents net per kWh, so around €529 per year. At Liander that pays for the installation in half a year, at Enexis in a little over a year. After that the yearly amount and your second energy contract come off.

Work it out for yourself with the earnings calculator, using what you actually charge.

How to apply

1. Request the metering point from your grid operator at mijnaansluiting.nl. Choose "change connection, add extra metering point". 2. Your installer moves the charging station behind that new metering point. You need space next to your meter, about 25 cm wide and 58 cm high. 3. Take out an energy contract on the new EAN code. 4. Add the new connection in your Joulo dashboard. You upload your grid operator's invoice and your statement that only charging stations sit behind the point. 5. Give consent once to retrieve your meter readings. After that they arrive on their own.

How we measure, and what your charging station does

We retrieve your meter readings from your grid operator through an accredited service. Daily, and for older months as a monthly total. Those readings become your charging sessions, and that is what we register.

Your charging station stays connected even though it does not count. We do that on purpose, because it is our check: every month we put what your charging station reported next to what your meter measured. If the two drift apart, something else is behind your metering point, or your connection has stalled. You see both numbers in your dashboard too.

You gain something right away: your sessions, charging times and averages stay visible in the app, and Joulo Share keeps working.

When this is the better route

A secondary allocation point is often the better choice when:

- your charging station is wired into your solar system or home battery, and replacing it would break that; - several charging stations sit behind one point; - your charging station works fine and you simply want to keep it; - you live in Liander's area, where installation is cheapest.

A new charging station with a MID meter is usually better if your meter cupboard is full, if you were due for a replacement anyway, or if you do not want a second energy contract. That starts at € 999 including installation, with your old unit traded in. Unsure? Request a quote and compare the two.

The limit: counting starts at the meter

Registration only covers kWh the certified meter measured itself. So your sessions count from the day your secondary allocation point is in place, and not a day earlier. Sessions from before that never count, not even retroactively. That is the same rule as with a MID meter, and there is no exception.

If your charging station later gets its own MID meter, that takes over from then on. You do not have to arrange anything twice: we set the boundary on the right day.