EV charger installation in Gatineau

STM-Électrique now serves Gatineau, in all five sectors. The price of a FLO on a single-family home is in the written quote, free of charge. On the rebate side, $600 from Écorecharge on the unit; no City program for a charger as of October 22, 2026.

The price of an installed charger in Gatineau

In Gatineau as elsewhere, the price of a FLO installed on a single-family home, charger supplied, is in the written quote, free of charge. It assumes a panel with free room and a charger mounted close to it.

It covers the charger, its breaker, wiring over a typical distance, any permit, start-up and a test charge.

Added case by case: reinforcing the panel or the service, wiring that has to take a long detour, repairing a finished wall, or a trench to a detached garage.

Is a plain NEMA 14-50 outlet enough for you? Its price is in the quote.

The price for your home is set after the visit, in a free written quote; you pay once the job is done, with no deposit. Financeit financing is available, subject to credit approval: see financing.

Écorecharge, and help from the City of Gatineau

Écorecharge comes from Québec, so it applies in Gatineau as anywhere in the province: a fixed $600 to anyone who owns an electric car and buys a charger for a house or a duplex.

The money goes toward the unit only, not the installation. You need a connected model, on the program’s list, bought for $600 or more before taxes.

You apply once the charger is in, attaching our invoice, which shows our name and RBQ licence number. The program runs until March 31, 2028.

On the municipal side, no program for a charger was found. On October 22, 2026, the City’s grants and sponsorships section listed 23 programs, including residential renovation and the replacement of oil heating, and none covered an EV charger.

Its page on energy efficiency offers refers to Hydro-Québec, Rénoclimat, Novoclimat and Éconologis, with no charger either.

For a building, or to compare with other cities, see our guide on the Québec EV charger rebate.

Do you need a permit for a charger in Gatineau?

The City of Gatineau goes by cost: under $26,000 before taxes in labour and materials, on an existing building, no permit; above that, electrical work needs one.

That exemption falls away when the work comes under a PIIA (site planning and architectural integration program) or a heritage citation bylaw.

An installed charger therefore usually stays well below the threshold. If the project goes over it, with other work in the same job, the permit is part of our job, as is the declaration of work.

With or without a permit, the Code applies: the City notes that standards still have to be met.

Aylmer, Hull, Gatineau, Masson-Angers, Buckingham

Since January 1, 2002, Gatineau has brought together five former towns that are now its sectors: Aylmer, Buckingham, Gatineau, Hull and Masson-Angers. Our master electricians travel to each one.

Of the 126,476 occupied dwellings counted in 2021, roughly 40% predate 1981; single-detached houses make up about 36.5% of them, semi-detached houses 14.3%.

Detached or semi-detached house: the charger runs from the house’s panel and goes in the garage or outside. Plex: it depends on the meter of the dwelling that will use it.

For a condo or a building with three or more dwellings, Écorecharge has a separate stream, explained in our article on chargers in apartment buildings.

Our other pages for Gatineau: electrician in Gatineau and panel replacement in Gatineau.

The panel first: the load calculation

Many houses have kept their original panel despite the arrival of a dryer, a dishwasher or a heat pump. A Level 2 charger comes on top of that, and it’s a heavy load.

Hence the load calculation, done before any proposal and with the charger included, as the Code revised on March 26, 2026 requires.

It ends in one of three results: nothing to change, a load controller to add, or capacity to increase. Our usual controller, the Thermolec DCC-9, often spares you a new service.

Gatineau is supplied by Hydro-Québec: if capacity has to be increased, the shutdown is requested from Hydro-Québec, and the request is part of our job. The rest is on our page on panel replacement in Gatineau.

The charger and its location

Most often, we install a FLO Home X3: Level 2, connected, designed in Canada, 12 kW at most (50 A). The load calculation sets the current we configure it to.

Siemens is also one of our brands, and a charger you’ve bought is welcome if it’s CSA or cULus certified. Aim for a connected model on Écorecharge’s list; we check it together before you buy.

Inside the garage, there’s nothing to fear from the weather; outside, it takes a model built for outdoors, mounted high to stay above the snow. The distance to the panel remains the first factor in the price.

Our guide which home EV charger to choose puts the models side by side.

Your project in Gatineau, step by step

1. Photos and address. Tell us your sector and building type, and attach three photos: panel open, main breaker label, whole wall.

2. Visit and quote. A master electrician comes to see the panel, the planned spot and the wiring route; the detailed, free quote follows within 24 to 48 business hours.

3. Installation and test. A simple job often takes half a day, with a few minutes of outage, and ends with charging your car and handing you the invoice.

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