Moving house, renting or a second home: what happens to your ERE registration?

Short answer: your ERE registration is tied to the connection and the charge point at one address, not to you as a person. When you move house, you close out the registration at the old address and effectively start again at the new one, with the same provider within the same calendar year. If you rent, or have a second home, the same conditions apply as for an owner-occupied home - ownership of the connection, an integrated MID meter and verifiable charging data - but with a few practical points to watch. The checklist below works through what to do, address by address.

Why your registration is tied to the address

The three conditions that apply to private individuals - an integrated MID-certified meter inside the charge point, ownership of the connection at the address, and verifiable charging data - are all location-specific. The meter physically sits inside the charge point mounted at that one address. The connection is a contract tied to that address. And the charging data your provider verifies is the session history recorded through that specific meter. When you move, you leave all three behind at once, which is why the registration doesn’t automatically move with you.

Checklist: moving house with an active ERE registration

Step	Action	Why it matters
1. Before the move date	Export your charging sessions (kWh, dates) via your provider’s app or portal	This is your last verifiable data export at the old address; once you’re no longer the account holder, you can’t retrieve it
2. Before the move date	Notify your provider in writing of the move date and new address	Providers generally work with calendar-year contracts and need to know when the registration at the old address ends
3. On the move date	Arrange who becomes the new connection holder at the old address	The NEa requires the connection to be in your name for the whole booking period; from the day it no longer is, your provider can no longer book there for you
4. At the new address	Redo the charger check	The charge point at the new address must qualify on its own merits; a previous charge point being eligible says nothing about this one
5. At the new address	Sign a new mandate for the new address and the new EAN code	According to the NEa, your mandate is no longer valid once your address or EAN code changes. Within the same calendar year you stay with the same provider; a different provider can only start on 1 January

Keep the exports from step 1 even after the move. If a dispute arises about the last recorded volume at the old address, that’s your own evidence alongside whatever the provider has on file.

Renting: who “owns” the connection?

“Ownership of the connection” means, according to the NEa, that the connection is registered in your name in the grid operators’ Central Connections Register (Centraal Aansluitingenregister). The NEa checks that register, not your energy contract and not who owns the building. Tenants in whose name the connection is registered can therefore qualify, provided the other conditions are also met. Landlords in whose name the connection is not registered don’t qualify there themselves.

What isn’t publicly spelled out: who’s entitled to register the charge point when the landlord installed it but the tenant holds the energy contract. Check your tenancy agreement for any clauses about the charge point, and put in writing who receives the ERE payment before signing up with a provider. This isn’t legal advice on tenancy law; if in doubt, check your tenancy agreement or consult an adviser. If a tenant moves out, the checklist above effectively repeats for the new tenant at that address - their situation is assessed afresh, independent of what the previous tenant had arranged.

A second home: does that count too?

For a second home in the Netherlands, the same conditions generally apply as for your main address: its own connection, its own integrated MID meter in the charge point there, and verifiable data from that specific location. If the second home is outside the Netherlands, it’s unlikely to qualify - the scheme assumes a Dutch location.

According to the NEa, a private individual issues a separate mandate per EAN code, but may appoint only one registration service provider per calendar year. Two Dutch addresses are therefore possible in principle, but with the same provider, not with two different ones. Ask your provider whether they support multiple connections per person and how that’s administered.

Moving partway through the year

According to the NEa, a private individual may appoint only one registration service provider per calendar year, and switching during the year is not possible. If you move partway through the year, your provider can only book at the old address up to the day the connection is no longer in your name. Your contract may run longer, but that doesn’t change that cut-off. For the new address you sign a new mandate, because it is tied to your name, address and EAN code. If you want the new address booked that same year, that can only be done by the same provider; switching to a different provider is only possible from 1 January. Note that an address or EAN code may also be registered by only one provider per calendar year. If the previous occupant already had the new address booked through another provider that year, ask your provider what that means for you. Also ask your provider how they handle a move: this isn’t always clearly stated on their website.

Practical tips, summarised

• Export your charging data before you hand over the keys.
• Notify your provider in writing, and in good time.
• Redo the charger check for every new address, even if a previous address already qualified.
• Renters: agree in advance who receives the ERE payment if the landlord installed the charge point.
• Second home: a separate mandate per EAN code, but with the same provider within a calendar year. Why that code is on the mandate is in Why you need your EAN code.
• When in doubt, go by your provider’s written confirmation rather than assumptions - the final assessment of your situation is made by the provider, not by this checklist.