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 allowed. One is a charging station with a MID meter inside. The other is a secondary allocation point: your grid operator fits a second, certified meter, for your charging station alone.

Which route fits depends on your grid operator, your meter cupboard and whether you have solar panels. Below is what a SAP costs and what it involves. That lets you put the two routes side by side.

What a secondary allocation point is

A secondary allocation point (SAP for short) is an extra metering point on your existing connection. It gets its own EAN code and its own smart meter. Grid operators also call it an extra metering point, or MLOEA: several suppliers on one connection.

For a home, your grid operator always fits that meter next to your current meter, on its own meter board. Your charging station moves behind it, separate from the rest of your house. House and charging station still share the same connection and the same main fuse. So you gain no capacity.

Why this works without a MID meter in your charging station

To register ERE's 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. The rules explicitly allow the metered delivery point as the measurement source (Regeling energie vervoer, article 9).

So this route has one 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. A secondary allocation point is a real delivery point, with its own EAN, installed and maintained by your grid operator.

What it costs

- Installation by your grid operator. The 2026 tariffs, including VAT: € 280.82 at Liander and € 629.09 at Enexis. Stedin quotes per situation. If your connection box needs replacing, that costs extra. - Your electrician. Your charging station moves behind the new meter, separate from your house, with its own circuit and residual current device. You need about 25 cm wide and 58 cm high free next to your meter. Without that space, your meter cupboard has to be adapted first. Expect a few hundred euros, and get a price before you apply for the metering point. - A yearly amount from your grid operator: € 46.06 at Liander and € 30.08 at Enexis. It does not arrive separately, but runs on the bill for your main connection. - A second energy contract. Every extra metering point needs its own supplier, with its own fixed supply costs. At the suppliers we checked in October 2026 that was € 7 to € 8.50 per month. Count on about € 90 per year. - Removal, if you no longer want it later. Enexis charges € 107.71 for that.

The smart meter itself is free.

Solar panels and a home battery

Because the SAP is separate from your house, power from your own solar panels does not go to your car, not even at midday. Your panels feed their power back through your main connection. Your charging station buys the same power through the SAP, and pays energy tax on it: 11.1 cents per kWh in 2026.

That is how the explanatory notes to the Energiebesluit put it, the rules under the new Energy Act. The draft allowed own power on every metering point, but that was dropped for now in October 2025. The same applies to a home battery. And if your charging station charges on solar surplus, it still does, but it no longer saves you anything.

From 1 January 2027 net metering (salderen) ends. An example: if your car charges 1,000 kWh per year that would otherwise come from your own panels, you buy it on the SAP at about 30 cents per kWh. That is about € 300 per year. Your feed-in compensation sits against that, which is lower, and sometimes you pay feed-in costs.

Moving your panels behind the SAP does not solve this. For registration, only charging stations may sit behind the metering point.

Two routes side by side

Both routes count the same kWh. So your earnings are equal: on average €517 per year for our customers. The difference is only in what the route costs. From 2027 up to and including 2030, four years:

- Charging station with a MID meter: from € 999, installed, with your old unit traded in. No fixed costs after that. - SAP at Liander: about € 825. That is € 281 installation, four times € 46 yearly amount and four times about € 90 for your second contract. - SAP at Enexis: about € 1,110. That is € 629 installation, four times € 30 yearly amount and four times about € 90 for your second contract.

On top of the SAP comes your electrician, and with solar panels the power you buy instead of using it yourself. At Liander the SAP comes to about € 175 below a new charging station over four years, at Enexis about € 110 above it. What your electrician charges often makes the difference.

When a SAP fits well

- You already have your own metering point for your charging station. The installation is then already paid for. - Two or more charging stations sit behind one point. One SAP then costs less than two new charging stations. - You live in Liander's area, you have no solar panels or home battery, and there is free space next to your meter.

Unsure? Request a quote and compare both routes.

How to apply

1. First ask an electrician whether there is space next to your meter, and what a separate circuit for your charging station costs. 2. Choose a supplier for the new metering point, and check that it supplies an extra metering point. 3. Request the metering point from your grid operator at mijnaansluiting.nl. Choose "wijzigen aansluiting, toevoegen/verwijderen extra meetpunt". 4. Your grid operator fits the meter. Your electrician connects your charging station behind it, separate from the rest of your house. 5. Take out the energy contract on the new EAN code. 6. 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. 7. Give consent once to retrieve your meter readings. After that they arrive on their own.

Grid operators publish no fixed lead time for an extra metering point. Until the metering point is in place, your sessions do not count.

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.

The limit: counting starts at the meter

Registration only covers kWh the certified meter measured itself. Sessions from before the SAP 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.

Your sessions count from the moment the SAP is in place.