Energize Your Business by Supporting Electric Vehicles
Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability by installing charging ports for electric vehicles (EVs) at your facility.
Having EV charging ports on your premises offers both financial and environmental benefits, helps promote your eco-friendly values and positions your organization as forward-thinking. They also help attract and retain employees and build goodwill with your customers and the community. By installing EVs, your organization becomes part of the solution to the world's most pressing environmental problems.
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Smart EV Charging Program Rebates
Tucson Electric Power's Smart EV Charging Program offers rebates as well as technical support to commercial businesses, multi-family complexes and nonprofit customers that purchase and install EV charging ports at their location. Customers located in lower-income areas may be eligible for higher rebates. If approved into the Program, rebates are issued at the completion of the project if all eligibility criteria have been met. Please note already completed or substantially completed projects are not eligible for rebate funds.
Our rebates help offset your purchase and installation costs, making it easier to become a leader in developing sustainable EV infrastructure for our community. Rebates are offered on a per-port basis and are tiered based on charger type. Current rebate levels are displayed in the table below. Rebates are capped at 100% of project costs. The number of ports incentivized may be less than the number of ports a customer wishes to install.
| Charger Type | Standard | Disadvantaged Community (DAC) Eligible Projects* |
| Level 2 (L2) | $1,800 per port | $2,700 per port |
| Smart Outlet (multi-family only) | $600 per device | $1,000 per device |
| DC Fast Charger (DCFC) | $15,000 per port | $25,000 per port |
Rebate levels subject to change at any time. Additional funding may be available for public transportation projects, electric school bus projects, and qualifying affordable multifamily housing developments.
All rebate funds must be distributed by December 2026.
*DAC Eligible Projects include those projects that meet the following criteria:
- Project is in a U.S. Census Block Group where the low-income population percentile (relative to the state) is 80% or greater, as identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s EJScreen Mapping Tool, and
- For non-Smart Outlet DAC projects: Chargers are made available to the public, and are not located behind a gate or barrier, during normal business hours. The chargers must be listed as publicly available on Plugshare (or similar) for the duration of the operating term. Chargers must be a good public use-case for charging based on the parameters outlined in the Program Guidelines.
- For Smart Outlet DAC projects: Multifamily site must be listed on https://housingsearch.az.gov/index.html with monthly per-unit rent below $1,200. If not listed, applicants can provide data to verify rent eligibility. TEP reserves the right to update the rent threshold as new market data becomes available.
Full DAC qualification information is available in the Program Guidelines. The program team reserves the right to accept or reject proposed projects’ DAC eligibility, and to update this definition as appropriate with the evolution of the program.
City of Tucson Projects — please note TEP is not able to provide a rebate for project costs associated with meeting the minimum requirements of the City of Tucson’s Commercial EV Ordinance. For example, if your project will have 5 charging stations and the ordinance requires the installation of 3 charging stations, TEP’s Smart EV Charging Program will only cover costs associated with 2 out of the 5 charging stations.
Initial Eligibility Criteria
- All TEP commercial customers are eligible to apply.
- After being accepted into the Program, customers must purchase and install a minimum of two (but up to six) charging ports at their location. Projects that involve the installation of six or more ports will be evaluated on an individual basis and rebates may vary. All projects must be completed, with final documentation submitted and verified, so that rebates can be issued no later than December 2026.
- Customers must sign a Site Host Agreement with a five-year term.
- Customers must be on one of TEP's Time-of-Use (TOU) or Stand-Alone Electric Vehicle Charging pricing plans.
- Customers must select their chargers from our Qualified Charger List
All projects are evaluated individually before being accepted for rebates. Not all projects will be approved for rebates. Click here to see the full set of program guidelines and requirements.
Click here to see our Qualified Charger List.
Click here for the EV Charger Installer directory.
Click here for a guide to getting started and next steps.
NOTE: TEP reserves the right to modify the program requirements or rebates as needed.
Project Costs Eligible for Rebates
- EV charging station and related equipment
- Electrical service upgrades required for the installation
- Design and engineering services
- Construction and installation (materials and labor)
- Service, warranty and O&M agreements
How TEP Supports Your Project
- Supports customers with resources, including the EV Charger Project Guide and EV Charger Installer Directory
- Reviews high-level infrastructure information about approved project sites, to be shared with customers’ electrical contractors
- Provides customers with a prequalified list of approved charging port vendors
Get Started Today
Take the first step toward installing EV charging ports at your facility.
Rebates for New-Build Single- and Multi-Family Housing
New-Build Single-Family EV Pre-Wire Rebate
This rebate program is for:
- TEP Residential Customers and New Single-Family Home Builders
- New single-family homes in jurisdictions without a pre-wire ordinance or requirement
This program offers $100/home for TEP residential customers or new home builders who pre-wire new build homes for EV charging.
TEP residential customers are eligible if they elect an upgrade for a NEMA 14-50 outlet on their new-build home. Outlet must be within 6ft of a dedicated parking space.
Home builders are eligible to submit rebate applications for homes where a NEMA 14-50 outlet is included as a standard offering (not a customer upgrade available for purchase). Outlet must be within 6ft of a dedicated parking space.
Rebates available while funds last. Rebate applications must be submitted within 90 days after the home’s closing date.
New-Build Single-Family EV Charger Rebate
This rebate program is for:
- New Single-Family Home Builders
- New single-family homes in jurisdictions with an existing pre-wire ordinance or requirement
This program offers $300/home for new home builders who include a Level 2, networked EV charger as a standard offering in new single-family homes.
The charger must be within 6 feet of a dedicated parking space, and cannot be offered as an upgrade option for customer purchase.
Rebates available while funds last. Rebate applications must be submitted within 90 days after the home’s closing date.
*Networked refers to any electric vehicle charger that can connect remotely to a larger network via the internet.
TEP Residential Customers are not eligible for this program, but may review the eligibility requirements for a Residential EV Charger Rebate.
New-Build Multi-Family EV Pre-Wire Rebate
This rebate program is for:
- New Multi-Family Home Builders
- New multi-family developments in jurisdictions without an existing pre-wire ordinance or requirement
This program offers $200/pre-wire for multi-family housing developers who build EV pre-wires at new multifamily developments.
A “pre-wire” refers to each stub or termination point of listed electrical conduit to accommodate a future individual branch circuit for EV chargers. The pre-wires must be able to accommodate either:
- A 40A (min), 208V or 240V dedicated branch circuit for a wall-mounted or pedestal-mounted Level 2 EV charger, or
- A 240V EV Smart Outlet (e.g., Orange Charger, Plugzio, GoPowerEV).
Each pre-wire must be within 6 feet of a parking space.
Rebates available while funds last. Rebate applications must be submitted within 90 days after the home’s closing date.
Multi-family housing developers or commercial customers interested in EV chargers versus pre-wires may apply for our Smart EV Charging Program instead.