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Typical Costs, Before and After the Grant
| Installation | Before grant | After grant (state funded) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 wall mounted sockets, staff car park | £1,600 to £2,400 | £400 to £600 |
| 4 sockets on dual pedestals | £4,500 to £7,000 | £1,150 to £1,750 |
| 10 socket phased installation | £11,000 to £18,000 | £2,750 to £4,500 |
Ranges reflect cable runs, groundworks and switchgear. The grant covers 75 percent of each socket’s cost up to £2,000, and school installations rarely hit that cap per socket, so in practice the school pays the remaining 25 percent.
What Moves the Price on School Sites
Distance is the big one, as it is everywhere. School car parks often sit a long way from the main electrical intake, and trenching across a playground or access road adds civils cost. We route around term time realities too, which is a scheduling matter rather than a cost one.
The good news for schools: most have three phase supplies and generous capacity compared with houses, because kitchens and heating already demand it. That usually means no supply upgrade, and load management handles the lunchtime kitchen peak automatically.
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Budgeting Advice We Give Business Managers
Size the electrical infrastructure for where you will be in five years and phase the sockets. Cabling and containment are the expensive part, and doing them once for 10 future sockets costs far less than digging twice. The grant’s 40 socket allowance leaves headroom for later phases, and the survey maps the whole route before you commit to anything.
Every quote we issue is fixed, itemised against the grant, and survives governor scrutiny. The site survey that produces it is free, and the application needs one anyway.
