An Owners Corporation can enter into an agreement with an Owner or an Occupier of a lot to provide amenity or service to the Owner or Occupier of the lot. This doesn’t require a motion or a by-law. This can include supply of electricity from a general power outlet connected to the common area/houselights meter.
In the case of a general power outlet on common property (which is not located in a private carparking space/cage or garage), which is not to be changed physically in any way, an end user agreement could be used for cost-recovery by the Owners Corporation where:
- the Owner or Occupier supplies at their own cost a temporary $25 plug-in/unplug electricity meter
- the Owner commits in the agreement to plugging in the temporary electricity meter for each charging session and then plugging the EV charging cable into the plug-in electricity meter and then unplugging the temporary electricity meter after each charging session
- the Owner commits to re-imbursing the Owners Corporation for the kWh consumed in each charging session on a periodic basis e.g. quarterly
This approach has been used with electric vehicles such as Hyundai Kona’s charging in strata apartment buildings in NSW.
If the EV in question is a Tesla, then a free third party smartphone application can be used to record the kWh of each charging session to assist with cost-recovery purposes, without the need to even spend $25 on a temporary plug-in power meter.