The Rural and Island Infrastructure Fund, run by Energy Saving Trust for Transport Scotland, pays for publicly accessible electric vehicle chargers on private land in rural Scotland. On the islands and in the most remote postcodes it covers 100 per cent of eligible costs, up to the cap for each unit. In the rest of rural Scotland it covers 75 per cent.

Argyll confirms the band from your postcode, arranges a site suitability check, and approaches approved charge point operators and installers on your behalf. You receive written proposals and choose whether, and with whom, to go ahead. The application is made in your name, or by your chosen operator on your behalf, and installation follows the grant offer.

• Eligibility confirmed from the postcode, not guessed
• A site check before anyone quotes
• Written proposals from operators and installers who are on the fund’s own supplier list
• The fund’s conditions explained before you sign: public access around the clock for five years, a public map listing, a back-office contract
• Argyll is an introducer. We do not install, operate, or take a share of charging income

Public chargers on the ChargePlace Scotland network must move to a new operator, and older units, including anything on OCPP 1.5, cannot make the move and have to be replaced. The CPS Transition Fund pays for a like-for-like replacement of an old rural unit, but the owner has to apply, a committed operator is a condition of applying, and the dates are tight: units off the old network by 31 December 2026 and works complete by 15 March 2027.

Argyll checks which of your units are affected, finds an operator prepared to commit to the site, and supports the application. Lead times run to about three months, so this is worth starting now.

A fund application needs a site, a landowner’s authority and an operator’s quote before it exists. Argyll supplies the first two. Every site we introduce has had its postcode checked against the fund’s own rural classification, a suitability check arranged, and a letter of authority signed by the business that owns or controls the land.

We work with operators and installers on the Energy Saving Trust supplier list, and we are paid by you, on terms agreed per site, never by the host. If you cover the islands or the Highlands, where the fund’s take-up has been lowest and its grant highest, talk to us.