Get Money Back for Charging Your EV at Home in The Netherlands: ERE Certificates and Employer Reimbursement

Since 1 January 2026, EV drivers in The Netherlands can earn roughly 10 to 20 cents per kWh charged at home by selling ERE certificates through a registered provider. If you drive a company car, your employer can also reimburse the electricity itself tax-free, and you can usually receive both payments for the same charging.

This guide explains how each scheme works, what equipment and registration you need, what you can realistically expect to earn, and how a company car driver can combine the two. Figures come from the Dutch government's own scheme description and from the published pages of named providers, given as ranges wherever no single rate is fixed, because none is.

What Changed on 1 January 2026

The Netherlands has long required fuel suppliers, the oil companies that sell petrol and diesel, to blend in a rising share of renewable energy. This rule is now called the Brandstoftransitieverplichting (BTV). From 1 January 2026, the BTV replaced the previous Jaarverplichting Energie voor Vervoer, and the unit used to track renewable contributions changed from the older HBE (hernieuwbare energie-eenheid) to the ERE (Emissiereductie-eenheid). One ERE represents one kilogram of CO2 emissions avoided compared with a fossil fuel baseline.

The Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit (NEa) keeps the official register where every ERE is booked. Fuel suppliers must hold enough EREs each year to meet a target that rises toward a 14.5 percent overall cut in transport emissions by 2030, with road transport facing a steeper target of around 28.4 percent. The legal basis sits in Titles 9.7 and 9.8 of the Wet milieubeheer, the Besluit Energie Vervoer and the Ministeriële Regeling Energie Vervoer, implementing the EU's Renewable Energy Directive. The underlying bill, wetsvoorstel 36.766, received final approval from the Eerste Kamer on 31 March 2026, and the scheme applies retroactively from 1 January 2026, so charging done earlier in the year still counts.

Why this matters for you: fuel suppliers can meet part of their obligation by buying ERE certificates from anyone who supplies renewable electricity for transport, and a home charger counts as exactly that.

How ERE Certificates Turn Home Charging Into Cash

You need a charger with a built-in MID meter

Your charge point needs a built-in, MID-certified meter. A separate MID meter in your fuse box or meter cabinet does not qualify: the certified meter has to be inside the charger itself and registered against your own electricity connection (your EAN code). Most home wallboxes installed in the last few years have one, but older or very basic chargers may not, so check the specification before assuming you qualify.

You register through a booking-service provider

A company or household supplying at least 2 million kWh a year can register directly with the NEa, a threshold no single home ever reaches. Everyone else registers through an inboekdienstverlener, a registered booking-service provider that bundles charging data from many households, converts it into ERE certificates, sells them and pays out the proceeds. These providers must themselves meet the 2-million-kWh threshold across their customer base, or hold at least 200 customer authorisations, before the NEa will deal with them.

The payout goes to the electricity connection, not the car owner

The payout goes to whoever's name is on the electricity connection, not to whoever owns the car. For most households that is simply the resident. It also means a company car driver who charges at home on their own electricity contract is usually the one who receives the ERE payment, even though the car, and sometimes the wallbox, belongs to the employer or lease company. There is no participant cap on this scheme, and because it applies retroactively, you can register now and still claim for charging done earlier in 2026.

Not every kWh earns the same

Ordinary grid electricity is assigned a default renewable share based on the national average from two years earlier, which works out to roughly a third of an ERE per kWh charged. Electricity you can document as fully renewable, backed by your own Guarantees of Origin, earns roughly double that, but gathering that documentation is impractical for most households and realistic mainly for businesses with their own verified renewable supply contracts.

How Much Can You Earn With ERE Certificates?

There is no fixed government rate for an ERE certificate. The price moves with how much fuel suppliers are willing to pay to meet their obligation, and it is agreed between buyers and registration providers rather than quoted on an open exchange, so published figures vary.

None of these figures is a guarantee. They all move with the ERE market, and the only way to know what you would actually receive is to compare current terms across providers before signing up.

As a rough example: a private EV owner charging 2,500 to 4,000 kWh a year at home would receive roughly 250 to 500 euros a year at 10 to 12.6 cents per kWh, depending on the provider and where the ERE market sits at the time.

Company Car Drivers: Is the ERE Payout Taxed?

No, according to the Belastingdienst's current position. Because the ERE payout follows the electricity connection rather than the car, a company car driver who charges at home normally keeps it personally, separately from any electricity reimbursement from the employer. Whether that payout counted as taxable wages was unresolved for much of 2026, and several lease companies' own guidance said so earlier in the year.

The Belastingdienst settled the question in a kennisgroepstandpunt published 3 August 2026. It concluded that this payout is not wages under article 10 of the Wet op de loonbelasting 1964, and is therefore untaxed, provided the employee requests it personally and the home charge point has a certified MID meter that meets the NEa's requirements. The same answer applies to a director-majority shareholder (dga) charging a company car at home. Because this position is only a few months old at the time of writing, check that it has not been revised before relying on it for a new arrangement.

Getting Reimbursed for the Electricity Itself

ERE income is new money on top of your charging costs, not a replacement for being reimbursed for the electricity. If you drive a company car and charge it at home, the Belastingdienst has a separate rule for that reimbursement: it must reflect your actual, integral cost price per kWh. That means your real supply rate, standing charges, energy tax and a proportional share of solar panel depreciation if you have panels, divided over your total usage. A flat national average price is not accepted: a kennisgroepstandpunt published 4 November 2024 replaced an older position and confirmed that an employer must be able to show the reimbursement matches real costs, since actual costs vary too much between households and energy contracts to justify one flat number.

In practice, employer and employee can instead agree a fixed per-kWh rate at a market-conform price at the time, often based on the average annual energy-contract price, reviewed roughly once a year, with kWh usage reported periodically. Reimbursing structurally more than the real or market-conform cost risks having the excess treated as taxable wages. The same actual-cost principle applies on a dynamic, hourly energy tariff. Once an employer relies on the charger's own reading as the basis for payment, a certified MID meter becomes the safer choice, since a standard, uncertified meter has no official status if the reimbursement is ever checked.

How mobility cards automate the reimbursement

Several energy suppliers and fuel-card providers have built this into an existing workflow. Vattenfall InCharge, for example, lets a company car driver link a MultiTankcard, Travelcard or XXImo card to a MyInCharge account. InCharge then receives the home charging data automatically and reimburses the driver monthly per kWh, at a standard rate of 27 cents per kWh or a flexible, usage-based rate. InCharge bills the card provider, which bills the lease company, which passes the cost on to the employer, so the driver is repaid without a monthly expense claim. Setup is a one-time process: request the card, activate the MyInCharge account and add the card to your charger's authorised list.

Combining ERE Income and Employer Reimbursement

For a private EV owner with no employer involved, ERE income is the only one of the two schemes that applies.

For a company car driver, the two schemes stack. The electricity is reimbursed at its actual or agreed market-conform cost price through the employer or a mobility card, tax-free under the existing Belastingdienst rule. The ERE payout from the same charging sessions goes to the driver separately as a second amount, also tax-free under the Belastingdienst's 2026 position. Neither payment reduces the other, because they come from different sources: one is a cost reimbursement, the other is the proceeds of a certificate sale to a fuel supplier.

How to Get Started

1. Check your charger. It needs a built-in, MID-certified meter for ERE registration, and this is increasingly relevant for employer reimbursement too. If it does not have one, ask your installer or the charger manufacturer whether an upgrade is possible. 2. Compare booking-service providers. Look at the current fee or commission, payout schedule and contract length rather than signing up with the first one you find, since terms differ between providers. 3. Register. Registration carries no upfront cost, and because the scheme applies retroactively, there is no need to rush to cover charging already done this year. 4. Company car drivers: arrange the electricity reimbursement separately with your employer or lease company, since it runs through a different process and different paperwork.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a special meter to earn ERE certificates?

Yes. The charge point must have a built-in, MID-certified meter registered to your electricity connection (EAN). A separate MID meter in your meter cabinet does not count.

Can I still claim for charging done earlier in 2026?

Yes. The scheme applies retroactively from 1 January 2026, so you can register now and still claim for earlier charging.

Who receives the ERE payout if I drive a company car?

The person whose name is on the electricity connection, usually you, even if the car or the wallbox belongs to your employer or lease company.

Is the ERE payout taxed for company car drivers?

Not under the Belastingdienst's kennisgroepstandpunt of 3 August 2026, provided you request it personally and your charger has a certified MID meter. Check that this position still holds before relying on it.

A Word of Caution Before You Sign Up

None of the figures in this guide are guaranteed income. The ERE market price moves, provider fees differ and can change, and the scheme is new enough that practical details are still being worked out. Treat any advertised rate as an estimate, and check a provider's current terms on its own site before signing a contract. For anything involving your own tax position, particularly if you are a company car driver, a dga or run a business with several charge points, confirm the current rules with the Belastingdienst or your own accountant, since this area of Dutch tax and energy policy has changed more than once in 2026 and may change again.

If you are weighing the running costs of EV ownership more broadly, our guides to EV fast-charging subscriptions for European road trips and the right charging cards for AC and DC charging in The Netherlands cover the spending side that this guide's earning side helps to offset.

References

• Hernieuwbare energie voor vervoer (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland, RVO)
• ERE-certificaten (ANWB)
• From HBEs to EREs in the Netherlands: new income opportunities for smaller businesses and households in electric mobility (Rabobank)
• Energy Transport Regulation: ERE for Home Chargers in 2026 (Joulo)
• Stekker (Stekker)
• Standpunt vergoeding ERE-certificaten opladen elektrische auto van de zaak (Taxence)
• Fiscale aspecten vergoeding ERE-certificaten bij elektrisch laden (SRA)
• KGS laadkosten auto van de zaak (Taxence)
• Standpunt Belastingdienst vergoeding laadkosten werknemers (PwC Netherlands)
• Charge at Home: Declare Electricity Costs (Vattenfall InCharge)