How to open an EV charging station in Indore

Madhya Pradesh has one of the cleaner EV tariff structures in our reference set: a single normal energy rate applied to both the low-voltage and high-voltage EV categories, with a symmetrical time-block adjustment on top. That simplicity makes the strategic question unusually sharp.

1. Which of the three DISCOMs serves you

Madhya Pradesh is served by three distribution companies, split by region:

Indore sits in the western region, so a project there routes through MPWZ — but our reference deliberately makes no assumption about any specific parcel. Confirming East, West or Central and the exact circle and division is recorded as a critical open item, for a blunt reason: a wrong application route wastes time you cannot get back. Our register’s own instruction is to send the address, PIN, khasra or GPS and have the legal service boundary confirmed rather than inferred from a regional map.

2. The tariff, and the eight hours that matter

Both categories carry the same ₹7.44/kWh normal rate, and the equivalent rates for the two time blocks are stated in the schedule itself — ₹5.952 and ₹8.928 per kWh before additions. Note that these are genuine kWh rates, unlike Maharashtra’s kVAh basis, so no power-factor adjustment applies to the billing unit here.

The asymmetry is worth dwelling on. The rebate window is eight hours; the surcharge window is sixteen. So the “good” hours are the minority, and a naive model using the ₹7.44 normal rate as an average will be optimistic for any typical public-charging arrival pattern — because the majority of hours carry the surcharge, not the rebate.

Two configurations that suit this structure particularly well: daytime destination charging (offices, malls, institutional parking) that naturally sits in the rebate window, and any site paired with rooftop solar, where generation and rebate coincide. A fleet depot that charges overnight, by contrast, sits squarely in the surcharge block here — the opposite of Mumbai, where 00:00–09:00 carries no adjustment at all. The same operating pattern is rewarded in one state and penalised in another.

No minimum charge is a genuine advantage for a site building demand slowly, though our source notes other charges may remain — so confirm the full bill stack rather than reading “no minimum” as “nothing when idle”.

3. The 112 kW question — and why it decides your equipment

This is the Madhya Pradesh detail we would want settled before anyone bought hardware. Our register records an open item to reconcile a policy statement about 112 kW LT/HT with the current Supply Code and feasibility, graded critical, with the consequence stated plainly: it controls equipment and cost.

In plain terms: there is a threshold around 112 kW that appears to bear on whether you connect at low or high tension, and the policy statement and the Supply Code need reconciling for a specific case. Since LT and HT connections differ in cost, works, metering and timeline, a configuration sized just above or just below that line could land you in a materially different project.

The practical move is to design the configuration and put the threshold question to the serving DISCOM in writing before ordering equipment — not after. Also open, and related: whether LV-6, HV-8 or a premise-category treatment applies to your metering, which our register flags as controlling billing.

4. Capital subsidies, tiered by charger size

At 30%, these are more generous in rate than Haryana’s 20%, and unlike Haryana there is no stated minimum investment threshold to qualify — the tiers are by charger size rather than by capital floor. Our register attaches the same discipline to every line: these apply only with a live programme and a sanction, and no financing credit without sanction.

So model the project without them. If a sanction arrives, it improves a case that already worked. If your case only works with the subsidy, you are relying on an allocation whose remaining availability nobody has confirmed.

5. The sequence we would follow

1. Confirm the serving DISCOM and exact circle/division by sending the address, PIN, khasra or GPS — do not infer it from the regional split.
2. Settle the 112 kW LT/HT question for your intended configuration, in writing, before ordering equipment.
3. Confirm LV-6, HV-8 or premise-category treatment and the metering arrangement.
4. Get the live tax, duty, cess and deposit stack so you can build a true landed cost.
5. Screen the plot for geometry and electrical sizing.
6. Model on the time blocks, not the normal rate — and be honest that sixteen of twenty-four hours carry the surcharge.

What is still unconfirmed

Published deliberately. For Madhya Pradesh we have not verified from a primary source: which of East, West or Central DISCOM serves a given parcel and the exact circle and division (critical — wrong application route risk); reconciliation of the policy 112 kW LT/HT statement with the current Supply Code and feasibility (critical — controls equipment and cost); whether LV-6, HV-8 or premise-category treatment and metering applies (critical — controls billing); and the current tax, duty, cess and deposit position. Deposit, service line, augmentation and timeline all require an official estimate — no universal project value was captured.

Sources

Reference information for planning purposes, not legal, engineering or financial advice. Confirm the current order with the serving DISCOM before financial commitment. Found an error? Tell us.