EV charger in Palma,
shared garages included.

Your area

In Palma the car nearly always sleeps in a shared garage

Palma is full of apartment blocks: the car usually spends the night in a basement space, far from your flat's meter. So the question here is not which charger to buy, but where the line comes from and what you have to tell the owners' community. ITC-BT-52 of the low-voltage regulations settles it with four connection schemes, and every garage fits one of them.

Your space in the building's garage

Spain's Horizontal Property Act (art. 17.5) says that a private charging point in an individual space only requires you to notify the owners' community beforehand; the cost of the installation and of the electricity it uses is yours. The line can run from your own meter, in the building's meter room (scheme 2 of ITC-BT-52), or from a new meter just for the charger (scheme 3). In an existing garage within a residential building, ITC-BT-04 does not ask for an engineering project for that line, unless the charging exceeds 50 kW.

When several neighbours want one

If half the staircase is going to fit a charger, a trunk installation pays off (scheme 1): a shared circuit through the garage with a secondary meter at each space, so each neighbour pays their own. With a main-line protection system (SPL), which turns the cars' charging down when the building is drawing a lot of power, the regulation lets you calculate the charging with a simultaneity factor of 0.3 instead of 1: more chargers fit without touching the building's supply connection.

Houses in Son Vida, Génova or Establiments

On the residential outskirts the car parks next to the house and the charger hangs off an additional circuit from the home's consumer unit (scheme 4). If there are solar panels, we leave it charging on the midday surplus. And if the charger is out in the open, the regulation asks for an IP5X enclosure and IK10 impact resistance.

Rules and grants

Regulations, grants and taxes in Palma

Palma's 2026 tax bylaws: the construction tax bylaw (ICIO, art. 6.4) gives a 90% reduction on the works for the charging point, on the cost of the point only, and the property tax bylaw (IBI, art. 23) up to 25% off the bill of a residential property for the following three tax years, never more than 50% of the cost of the installation. Both are for installations that are not legally required, and both must be applied for: the ICIO one with the tax self-assessment, the IBI one before 31 December to take effect the next year. The IBI reduction cannot be combined with the other reductions of that tax.

FACTOR 2026: the Balearic government grant pays 70% of a private charging point, capped at €2,500 per installation for individuals, and takes applications until 28 February 2027 while funds last. It runs separately from the municipal rebates: one is requested from the regional government and the others from the city council. Spanish income tax (IRPF) also allows a 15% deduction on a maximum base of €4,000.

Sources: BOIB no. 83, 2 July 2026 (FACTOR 2026, section 12.D) · Royal Decree 1053/2014 (ITC-BT-52) · Horizontal Property Act (art. 17.5) · CNMC Circular 3/2020 (2.0TD tariff) · Palma tax by-laws 2026.