EV charger installation in Dorking

What decides a charger job in Dorking

Where the car parks, what the supply and the board will take, and who has to be told. These are the local facts behind those three questions in Dorking.

A house with a drive, and the county’s rule for the rest

On the later streets and the villages round the town the charger is a day’s work: house or garage wall by the drive, a short run, a load-managed unit where the supply is older than the car. In the older streets inside the conservation area the unit goes on a side or rear wall and the Article 4 features are checked against the address. For a house with on-street parking only, the county is explicit — no cable across the pavement, only a cable gully across a footpath — and the public network, with its request map, is the route.

Battery storage in Dorking is the same house seen from the battery’s side.

A lower yield, a car and a tariff

Dorking’s modelled yield is below the coast’s and its roofs are more often shaded, so the surplus is better kept in a battery than exported — and a car charged overnight is best done on a cheap-rate tariff rather than from the panels, which make their power at midday. Solar panels in Dorking is the roof side; why a Dorking battery earns more is the arithmetic; export tariffs compared lists the overnight tariffs, dated.

Two things people in Dorking ask before they book

“Can I run a cable across the pavement with a protector?”

Not in Surrey. The county states that trailing a cable across the pavement is not allowed and that cables may only cross a public footpath if safely enclosed in a cable gully. A home charger needs your own off-street space.

“Does the Article 4 direction stop a charger?”

Not on a side or rear wall. A unit on a wall visible from the street inside the conservation area is checked with Mole Valley first, and usually there is a better wall anyway.

Questions we get asked in Dorking

Do you install EV chargers in Dorking?

Yes — twenty-six road miles from our Washington base, inside our thirty-mile line. A dedicated circuit, protection at the board, a tested and certificated installation and the notification to UK Power Networks, by the electricians who do our solar and battery work.

What does Surrey offer a Dorking house with no off-street parking?

The county’s on-street network — over 200 sockets installed on its behalf by October 2024 under the Connected Kerb contract, with 7 kW units, lamp-post units and rapids in car parks — and an online map for requesting a location. A cable across the pavement is not permitted.