Solar EV Charging Cyprus | Charge Your Car From Your Roof

An electric car is usually the largest single load a household ever adds. It is also, unusually, a load you can schedule. Under Net Billing that combination matters more than it used to.

The arithmetic that makes this work

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Charge from your own solarReplaces electricity worth about €0.26 per kWh

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Export that same energy insteadCredited at up to €0.11 per kWh, the CERA Low Voltage ceiling

Every kWh that goes into the car instead of onto the grid is worth more than double. For a household covering meaningful distance, that gap adds up faster than almost any other change you can make to a solar system.

This is the same logic explained in Net Billing vs Net Metering, applied to the one load that can genuinely be moved to midday.

The catch, stated plainly

All of that assumes the car is at home while the sun is up.

If you commute and the car sits at a workplace all day, solar charging happens at weekends and not much else. That does not make it pointless, but it does change the sizing and it changes whether a battery is worth it. We would rather establish this before you buy equipment than after.

What we check before installing

Your supply type and capacity — a charger plus air conditioning plus cooking can exceed a modest single-phase connection
Single-phase or three-phase charging, which is limited by your supply, not just the charger
Switchboard capacity and protection, including the RCD arrangement a charger requires
Cable route and parking position — often the thing that decides real cost
Whether solar exists or is planned, because it changes the sensible answer on scheduling

Our supply limit calculator shows what your connection type allows.

Load management instead of a supply upgrade

The common worry is that a charger means upgrading the supply. Usually it does not. A charger that can throttle itself when the rest of the house is drawing hard will coexist with an ordinary connection, charging slower during a hot evening and faster once demand drops.

That is nearly always cheaper than a supply upgrade, and it is worth asking any installer whether they are specifying it.

Should the car charge from the home battery?

Usually not, and this catches people out. A home battery holds a fraction of what a car battery holds. Charging the car from it empties the storage you were relying on for the evening.

The better arrangement for most households is to charge the car directly from solar when it is there, from the grid overnight when it is not, and keep the home battery for the house. There are exceptions, which is why we look at the actual pattern rather than applying a rule.

Doing it together with solar

If you are planning both, doing them at the same time avoids paying twice for overlapping work: the supply assessment, the switchboard changes and the sizing decisions all touch each other.

It also means the array gets sized for the car from the start, instead of being right for the house and undersized six months later. Our cost calculator models consumption under Net Billing so you can see the difference an EV makes.

Frequently asked questions

No. We install chargers on their own. But if you are considering both, doing them together is worth it: the sizing, the supply check and the switchboard work overlap, and an EV changes what solar system size actually makes sense for you.

Technically yes, and often it is the wrong choice. A home battery holds a fraction of what a car battery does, so charging the car empties the house battery for the evening. Charging the car from the grid overnight and keeping the home battery for the house is usually better. We work this out per household rather than assuming.

It can, which is why we check first. A charger plus air conditioning plus an oven on a modest single-phase supply can exceed what your connection allows. The fix is usually load management that throttles the charger when the rest of the house is drawing hard, rather than a supply upgrade.

Usually yes, upward. An EV is often the largest single load a household ever adds, and unlike most loads it can be scheduled. That combination makes a larger array more worthwhile than it would otherwise be under Net Billing.

Only if the car is at home. If it is not, the value comes from a battery holding the daytime surplus for evening charging, or from scheduling charging for weekends. We would rather tell you this before you buy than after.

Getting an EV, or already have one?
Tell us your supply type and daily driving, and we will work out what actually makes sense.

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Tariff figures are estimates current as of August 2026: an all-in import cost of about €0.26/kWh and an export credit of €0.11/kWh, the Low Voltage ceiling under CERA Decision 112/2023. Both change over time.

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