There is no nationwide uniform wallbox incentive. The largest cantonal programme, the Zurich charging infrastructure incentive programme, has ended: its budget of CHF 50 million was 100 per cent used up in October 2026, and new applications are no longer possible. Funding is still available in Basel-Stadt (60 per cent of the basic installation, at most CHF 1’300 per private charging point, until the end of 2030), in Schaffhausen for apartment buildings and in some municipalities. In a single-family home, the bigger lever remains your own solar power. (As of: 12 November 2026)
Key points in brief
- There is no uniform, nationwide wallbox incentive – the programmes are cantonal.
- Canton of Zurich: programme ended – the budget of CHF 50 million was used up in October 2026, new applications are no longer possible, not even retroactively.
- Zurich applications already submitted continue to be processed or are placed on a waiting list; there is no legal entitlement.
- Basel-Stadt pays 60 per cent of the basic installation until the end of 2030, at most CHF 1’300 per private charging point.
- Outside Zurich: Aargau doesn't support wallboxes at cantonal level, Schaffhausen pays 25 percent of the connection costs in apartment buildings and CHF 2,000 for bidirectional charging stations with a solar system.
- In a single-family home, the bigger lever remains solar power for charging, not the one-off incentive.
Is there a wallbox incentive at all?
Only in isolated cases – and that's the most important difference from the solar system. While photovoltaics has a nationwide, uniform incentive route through the one-off feed-in incentive, there is no nationwide programme for the private wallbox. What exists are individual cantonal and municipal contributions, plus offers from individual energy suppliers – a patchwork that also changes regularly.
The big exception until October 2026 was the Canton of Zurich: its programme with CHF 50 million funded not only the individual box but entire parking facilities, bidirectional charging stations and company sites. This budget has since been used up completely – what that means is explained further below. Many other cantons, by contrast, do not fund private wallboxes at all; so it is worth checking specifically rather than assuming a contribution.
How do I find out what applies to my address?
Most reliably via a targeted search for your municipality. Because incentives play out on three levels – canton, municipality and sometimes energy supplier – the way forward is a query for your specific address. How this three-tier search works and where to do it is covered in the article on incentives at municipal level – the same principle applies to the wallbox.
| Level | Wallbox incentive | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Federal government | none uniform | unlike with PV (one-off feed-in incentive) |
| Canton | in part (BS 60 % of the basic installation, SH for apartment buildings; ZH exhausted since October 2026) | strongly varying, many without – e.g. Aargau |
| Municipality | isolated cases | worth asking |
| Energy supplier | individual offers | often tied to green electricity/tariff |
Guideline values, as of: November 2026. The programmes change – the current information from your canton, your municipality and your energy supplier is what counts.
A note on expectations, and it differs depending on the property: for a single box at a single-family home, the incentive remains a small extra – in most cantons there is nothing for it, and since October 2026 not in the Canton of Zurich either – and rarely the factor that decides the purchase. As soon as it concerns several parking spaces, a parking facility or a company site, the picture changes: there, contributions in the four-figure range are possible – in Basel-Stadt, for example.
Canton of Zurich: programme exhausted since October 2026
The Zurich charging infrastructure incentive programme ran from April 2023 to October 2026. In October 2026, the entire budget of CHF 50 million was 100 per cent used up; since then the canton no longer accepts new applications, and the funding platform remains closed. For applications that have already been submitted, the following applies:
- They continue to be processed as normal until they are completed – all of them must be completed by the end of 2027 at the latest.
- If funds are lacking, they are placed on a waiting list and move up when money becomes free from other applications.
- Applications that were started but not completed have been deleted from the online portal.
- There is no legal entitlement to funding in any case.
The only measure that continues is «Ladestation im Quartier»: public AC charging stations that a political municipality plans or commissions. For homeowners, condominium owners and companies this is not an option. For context, the rates that applied until October 2026:
| Funding category | Contribution | Most important condition |
|---|---|---|
| Connection at home (single-family and apartment buildings) | CHF 500 per parking space up to 15 parking spaces, from the 16th CHF 300 per additional parking space | from two connected parking spaces, local load management with communication link |
| Bidirectional DC charging station | CHF 2,000 per charging station | load management from two charging stations |
| Connection for company vehicle | 30% of costs, maximum CHF 60,000 per application | Company site |
| Consulting | 30% of consulting costs, maximum CHF 10,000 | – |
Rates of the ended programme according to the regulation and funding brochure of the Canton of Zurich, July 2024 edition (as of: 22 September 2026). Status: Canton of Zurich (AWEL), page on the charging infrastructure programme, retrieved on 12 November 2026.
What remains in Zurich now: the municipal programmes and the offers of individual energy suppliers – of varying amounts, sometimes tied to an electricity product. Anyone building in the Basel region has its own option, running until 2030, in the Basel programme for the basic installation. The query for your address runs via energiefranken.ch; the procedure is the same as for incentives at municipal level.
Basel-Stadt: 60 percent of the basic installation – until the end of 2030
Outside Zurich, money is still available if you look closely. With the «Aktion Ladeinfrastruktur», the Canton of Basel-Stadt funds not the wallbox itself but the basic installation: the supply line from the grid connection to the horizontal supply line or directly to the future charging position. According to the canton, the scheme runs from July 2024 to the end of 2030.
| Parking | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Private, without public access (e.g. apartment building, condominium ownership) | 60 % of the eligible costs (incl. VAT), maximum CHF 1’300 per charging point |
| Publicly accessible | maximum CHF 3’500 per charging point |
| Public car-sharing site | maximum CHF 7’500 per charging point |
Source: Canton of Basel-Stadt, programme page «Aktion Ladeinfrastruktur» (page as of: 2 October 2026). The conditions at the time the application is submitted apply.
The worked example shows why this pays off above all in apartment buildings: with ten charging points the maximum is CHF 13’000 – the maximum amount is reached once the eligible costs per charging point amount to around CHF 2’170. What is funded is what makes up the basic installation: project management, installation, load management, distribution boards and building works.
The conditions at a glance:
- Not funded are the purchase and installation of the charging station itself and capacity increases at the house connection.
- Expansion level: at least C1 according to SIA 2060 (horizontal feed line no more than 3 m from the future charging station) or C2 (feed line to the exact position).
- Separate meter: A separate utility meter (IWB) is mandatory; for houses with photovoltaics, grid consumption must be measured separately from solar power.
- Execution by qualified professionals in line with the current technical connection conditions (TAB).
- Procedure: single-stage (submit the documents after completion) or two-stage (application at least two months before construction starts). Projects completed before 1 July 2024 are not funded retroactively.
- Who submits? The recipient of the grant is the owner; the application may also be submitted by the property management or the installation company carrying out the work.
For planning, this means: the basic installation is the expensive part and the decisive step – whoever designs it for all parking spaces and meters it properly meets the funding conditions at the same time.
Apartment building and condominium ownership: this is where most of the money is
In a single-family home it is about one parking space, in an apartment building about ten or twenty – and there, funding becomes a decision criterion where it still exists. In Basel-Stadt, ten private charging points yield up to CHF 13’000 towards the basic installation; in Schaffhausen it is 25 per cent of the connection costs. In the Canton of Zurich, this contribution has been discontinued since October 2026.
With or without a contribution, one calculation stays the same: anyone who connects four of twelve parking spaces today because «only four tenants have an electric car so far» will build the expensive route from the meter room a second time later. The commercially right question is therefore not «how many do we need now?» but «how many parking spaces do we connect straight away?» – the basic installation is the expensive part, not the individual box.
For the community of owners, this means: the resolution must answer both questions together – the level of expansion and the financing. How the decision legally works in an STWEG and what documents the assembly needs for it is covered in Wallbox in apartment buildings and condominium ownership; billing the charging electricity is covered in Billing charging electricity.
Already installed? In Zurich there is no application any more
Until October 2026, for up to four parking spaces in the Canton of Zurich the application could still be submitted up to six months after completion. That is over: according to the canton, it is no longer possible in any case to submit a new funding application – not even for a wallbox that was installed in summer 2026.
In Basel-Stadt, by contrast, there is a single-stage procedure: the documents are submitted after completion. Projects that were completed before 1 July 2024 are, however, not funded retroactively.
Where a programme requires an application before construction starts – in Schaffhausen, for example, before the start of implementation; in Basel-Stadt, in the two-stage procedure, at least two months beforehand – the order must not be confused: this cannot be remedied afterwards.
Who submits the application?
You yourself – or someone acting on your behalf. In Basel-Stadt the recipient of the contribution is the owner; however, the application may also be submitted by the property management or the installing company. That is exactly what we do: we submit the funding application for you – together with the registration with the grid operator, which is required for every wallbox anyway (Registering a wallbox).
For the sequence in the project, this means: first clarify which programme applies to the address, how many parking spaces are connected and whether the application has to be submitted before construction starts – then install.
Wallbox incentive in Aargau, Schaffhausen and other cantons
Since the end of the Zurich programme, it is thin everywhere – and for the individual wallbox at a single-family home usually empty. The overview for three cantons in our area of operation:
| Canton | Wallbox at a single-family home | Apartment building and commercial | Bidirectional charging station |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | no contribution any more (programme exhausted since October 2026) | no contribution any more; only «Ladestation im Quartier» for municipalities | no contribution any more |
| Aargau | no cantonal contribution | no cantonal contribution | no cantonal contribution |
| Schaffhausen | no cantonal contribution | 25% of connection costs (excluding charging stations), contribution min. CHF 1,000 | CHF 2,000 per DC station, only with a connected solar system |
As of: November 2026 (Zurich), September 2026 (Aargau, Schaffhausen). Sources: Canton of Zurich (AWEL), page on the charging infrastructure programme (retrieved on 12 November 2026); Canton of Aargau, Förderprogramm Energie (edition 05/2026) – charging infrastructure is not included in it; Canton of Schaffhausen, Energieförderprogramm 2026 (as of 26 January 2026), sections 9.1 and 9.2. Municipalities and energy suppliers may pay in addition.
Aargau: the cantonal programme focuses on the building envelope and heating replacement; the canton doesn't support charging infrastructure – more on this in Incentives in Aargau. Whether your municipality or your energy supplier pays a contribution is shown by the query for your address on energiefranken.ch.
Schaffhausen specifically funds what is expensive in an apartment building: the connection infrastructure permanently attached to the building, that is, cables and distribution – not the charging stations themselves. The requirements are a building with a building permit from before 2019, charging stations up to 22 kW and an application before the start of implementation. A retroactive application is therefore not possible here. For bidirectional charging stations the following applies: a solar system in self-consumption as a condition, at most 25 per cent of the investment, one application per building – and the category is limited to 25 charging stations, with the date of receipt being decisive.
The same approach applies for other cantons: first check the cantonal programme, then the municipality and energy supplier – energiefranken.ch bundles all three levels.
What's different for companies – and what brings more than the incentive
For companies and larger charging infrastructure the situation looks quite different. In the Canton of Zurich, the company incentive (30 per cent of the investment, at most CHF 60’000 per application) has also expired with the programme; only the measure for public charging stations in the neighbourhood continues, and it is aimed at municipalities. Anyone planning for a company will find the technical connections in the article Charging infrastructure for companies; it covers full build-out, load management and billing. Anyone planning with bidirectional charging stations will find the classification under bidirectional charging.
And the honest closing point for the private household: the bigger financial lever usually lies not in the one-off incentive but in ongoing operation. A wallbox that charges with the midday surplus of your own solar system saves money year after year – the article Charging an electric car with solar power shows how surplus charging turns expensive grid electricity into inexpensive solar power. Over the lifetime of the wallbox, this effect outweighs a one-off contribution many times over.
For single-family homes we continue to temper expectations: a one-off incentive is nice, but no reason to hang the project on it. The real money there lies in operation – an electric car that fills up at midday on your own surplus instead of drawing expensive power from the grid in the evening saves far more over the years than any one-off incentive. For apartment buildings we turn this sentence around. There it is not about one parking space but about ten or twelve, and the basic installation is the expensive part. Anyone who is laying the cables anyway should lay them for all spaces straight away – with or without a contribution, because a second attempt later does not get cheaper. This is the sentence we say most often at owners' meetings.
Frequently asked questions
Is the wallbox supported in Switzerland?
Not uniform – the programmes are cantonal. The Zurich programme for charging infrastructure has been exhausted since October 2026, and new applications are no longer possible. Basel-Stadt pays 60 per cent of the basic installation until the end of 2030 (at most CHF 1’300 per private charging point), Schaffhausen funds the connection infrastructure in apartment buildings. Many other cantons pay nothing at all for private wallboxes. There is no nationwide incentive like the one-off feed-in incentive for solar systems.
Does the Canton of Zurich still pay anything towards the wallbox?
Not for new applications: the charging infrastructure incentive programme had used up its budget of CHF 50 million completely in October 2026. Until then there was CHF 500 per parking space. Applications already submitted continue to be processed or are placed on a waiting list; only the measure «Ladestation im Quartier» for political municipalities continues. (As of: 12 November 2026)
Is there an incentive for the wallbox in Aargau?
Not from the canton: the Canton of Aargau's Energy Incentive Programme doesn't include charging infrastructure. Contributions exist at most from individual municipalities or energy suppliers – whether your address is among them is shown by the query on energiefranken.ch.
Can I submit the incentive application retroactively?
Not in the Canton of Zurich any more – since the end of the programme, new applications are not possible in any case. In Basel-Stadt there is a single-stage procedure in which the documents are submitted after completion; in Schaffhausen, by contrast, the application must be submitted before the start of implementation.
What applies to Zurich applications that have already been submitted?
They continue to be processed as normal; if funds are lacking, they are placed on a waiting list and move up when money becomes free from other applications. All applications must be completed by the end of 2027 at the latest, and there is no legal entitlement. Applications that were started but not completed have been deleted from the portal. For new projects, municipal programmes and offers from individual energy suppliers remain – this can be checked for your address via energiefranken.ch.
Is there funding for charging infrastructure in Basel-Stadt?
Yes, but for the basic installation, not for the wallbox: the Canton of Basel-Stadt covers 60 percent of the eligible costs, for private parking spaces a maximum of CHF 1’300 per charging point. According to the canton the programme runs until the end of 2030; requirements include at least expansion level C1 according to SIA 2060 and a separate utility meter. The application may also be submitted by the property management or the installation company. (Programme page as of: 2 October 2026)
Where do I find the incentive for my municipality?
Via a targeted query for your address, because incentives play out at cantonal, municipal and sometimes energy-supplier level. It's best to check all three levels. The principle is the same as for solar incentives at municipal level – the search is described there.
Is the wallbox worthwhile even without an incentive?
Yes – the bigger financial lever lies in operation anyway, not in the one-off incentive. A wallbox that charges the solar surplus saves money year after year and outweighs a one-off contribution many times over its lifetime. The incentive is a top-up, not a decision-making criterion.
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Förderung auf GemeindeebeneSources: Canton of Zurich (AWEL), page on the charging infrastructure programme, status after the end of the programme (retrieved on 12 November 2026), as well as regulation and funding brochure, July 2024 edition; Canton of Basel-Stadt, «Aktion Ladeinfrastruktur» (page status: 2 October 2026); Canton of Aargau, Förderprogramm Energie, edition 05/2026; Canton of Schaffhausen, Energieförderprogramm 2026, as of 26 January 2026 (sections 9.1 Erschliessung Ladeinfrastruktur and 9.2 Bidirektionale Ladestation); in addition municipal programmes and offers from individual energy suppliers. Programmes change and funding pots are limited – the current information from the canton and your municipality is what counts.
Last updated: 12 November 2026 · Author: ecoEn Redaktion
