EV Charging for Condominiums.
Capacity Answered First.

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Has an owner applied to install a charger in your building? Send us the application and your building address — we'll tell you what's involved.

Free Site Visit
Capacity Studies
Load Management (EVEMS)
ESA Plan Review
Turnkey Installation
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"Communication was clear, consistent, and reliable throughout the entire process. The team was also incredibly professional and courteous when coordinating access with our commercial tenant. Skilled, dependable, and true professionals."

— Vicky C. · Google Review · Commercial Property · Toronto
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Completed EV charger installation in a multi-residential building parking garage by Actus Electric
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"Communication was clear, consistent, and reliable throughout the entire process. The team was also incredibly professional and courteous when coordinating access with our commercial tenant. Skilled, dependable, and true professionals — highly recommend Actus Electric for any electrical work."

— Vicky Christoff  ·  Commercial Property  ·  Toronto
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When an Owner Applies

An Owner Applied to Install a Charger.
Now What?

When an owner applies to install a charger, the corporation has to respond — and the response is easy when the capacity question is already answered. That's what we prepare.

Under Ontario Regulation 48/01, an owner can apply to install an EV charging system, and the corporation has 60 days to respond in writing. If the board wants to refuse, it can only do so on the opinion or report of a qualified professional — and a copy of that report goes to the owner.

So "the building can't handle it" isn't an answer. It's a finding that has to be documented.

That's usually where we come in. We assess the building's actual electrical capacity and give you a written result you can act on — whether it supports approval, refusal, or an alternative location. Either way, you're not guessing, and you're not past the deadline.

Real Capacity

Most Buildings Have More Capacity
Than the Calculation Suggests

Most buildings have more capacity than a textbook calculation shows. We measure what the building actually uses — and that number is usually the difference between adding chargers and paying for a service upgrade.

A textbook load calculation assumes every unit runs everything at once. Real buildings never do. Calculate on paper and you'll often conclude there's no room — and quote a service upgrade nobody needs.

The code allows better. For loads outside the standard residential calculations, OESC Rule 8-106 9) permits feeder and service calculations based on demonstrated load — what the building has actually drawn — when the work is done by a qualified person. As a licensed electrical contractor, we are qualified to perform this calculation, and ESA accepts it.

We pull the building's historical demand, review the service and feeders, and establish what capacity genuinely exists. That number is the foundation of everything else — and it's frequently the difference between a charger program and a service upgrade.

Load Management

Chargers Without
a Service Upgrade

When spare capacity is tight, load management shares it between chargers automatically — residents charge overnight, and the building avoids a service upgrade.

When the spare capacity isn't enough for chargers at full load, the answer usually isn't a bigger service. It's controlling the load.

Ontario's 2024 amendments to the Canadian Electrical Code replaced the code's EV-specific wording with a broader energy management system. Under Rule 8-106 10), the demand load counted for controlled equipment is the maximum the system permits — not its nameplate rating. Under Rule 8-106 11), that load need not be counted in the calculated load at all, where the system monitors the service, feeders and branch circuits and controls loads in accordance with Rule 8-500. Rule 8-202 3) d) applies this directly to apartment and similar buildings.

In practice: chargers share the capacity that exists, throttling automatically when the building is busy and delivering full output when it isn't. Residents charge overnight and never notice. The corporation avoids a capital service upgrade.

A load study is how we find the most cost-effective option — it often shows the building can add chargers within the capacity it already has, instead of paying for a service upgrade.

Before Work Starts

The ESA Plan Review
That Stops Projects Mid-Stream

Larger charger projects need ESA to review the plans before work starts. We prepare that submission and build it into the schedule, so it never stops the project mid-stream.

Ontario Rule 2-010 1) f) requires plans to be submitted to and examined by ESA before work starts on any EV charging installation outside a single dwelling unit, where the total nameplate rating — existing plus new — exceeds 20% of the service equipment rating.

Most real condominium charger programs cross that threshold. Boards routinely find out after approving a budget and setting a date.

We identify it at assessment, prepare the submission, and build the review into the schedule instead of discovering it later.

How It Works

From Site Visit
to Working Chargers

Free Site Visit

We visit the building, walk the electrical room and parking areas, and see what's on hand — drawings, utility data, past reports. Free, and no obligation.

Fixed-Price Capacity Study

Based on the building's complexity and records, we quote a fixed price for the study: real capacity from the building's own usage data, how many chargers it supports, locations, budget, and whether ESA plan review applies.

Turnkey Installation

If the board proceeds, we deliver the whole project — engineering coordination, the ESA plan review submission, installation, metering, and billing setup. The study fee is credited against the installation.

You'll know the cost of the study before it starts, and the cost of the project before you commit.

Experience

Multi-Residential and High-Rise
Work

Some of the work shown was completed on a subcontract basis.

Energized EV chargers mounted and ready to use in a multi-residential building parking area
Level 2 chargers energized — multi-residential parking garage
Completed high-rise electrical room with service equipment and distribution panels installed by Actus Electric
High-rise electrical room — service and distribution
Common element lobby lighting installed in a residential building by Actus Electric
Common element lighting — lobby
Vendor Qualification

Everything Your
Vendor File Needs

Actus Electric Ltd. holds ESA Electrical Contractor Licence #7013957, with Sergii Goncharenko as the Master Electrician on record, active WSIB coverage, and $5,000,000 liability insurance. Certificates and references supplied for your qualification process — ask and they're sent the same day.

ACMO Associate Member — Association of Condominium Managers of Ontario

Actus Electric Ltd. is an Associate Member of the Association of Condominium Managers of Ontario.

What Clients Say

Reviews From Past Clients

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"The team maintained a safe and clean work environment at all times — even while we were open to clients. Completed on schedule, exactly as discussed. Final inspection passed without any issues."

Maxime Naiberguer
Electrical Upgrade & New Installation  ·  Dealership  ·  Toronto
★★★★★

"Exceptionally clean, professional, and organized. Completed on schedule, permit opened, ESA inspection passed with zero issues. Communicative, reliable, and clearly experienced."

Danina Coté
Commercial Electrical  ·  Toronto
★★★★★

"Actus Electric has been our go-to for anything electrical, both at home and our business. A true professional and wonderful to work with. Highly recommend."

AdiandSeema Desai
Residential & Commercial  ·  Toronto
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Common Questions
From Condo Managers

The application itself, the building address, and access to the electrical room and the parking level. We review the proposed location against the building's real capacity and come back with a written finding you can put in front of the board.
Often not. Between demonstrated-load analysis and an energy management system, most buildings can add chargers within the capacity they already have. A service upgrade is a finding, not a starting assumption.
Then the board needs it documented. Under O. Reg. 48/01, an owner's application can only be refused on the written opinion of a qualified professional showing a real safety, structural, or code problem. We assess the building honestly and put what we find in writing — whether that supports approval, an alternative location, or refusal.
Two models, depending on the building. Shared chargers in common areas are metered together, and each session is billed automatically to the user through the charging network — even a car left plugged in keeps being billed by time. Individual chargers at owned parking spots are metered per charger and billed to that resident through a monitoring portal. Either way, the principle is the same: only the people using the chargers pay for them. Residents without a charger never subsidize the ones who have one. We set this up as part of the installation and walk the board through the options before work starts.
The corporation does. We install equipment the building owns outright — we don't place our own revenue-collecting chargers on your property. You control the hardware, choose the billing platform, and keep the data. Billing can run through the metering provider directly or, where available, through your utility so charging appears on the resident's regular bill.
ESA Electrical Contractor Licence #7013957, active WSIB coverage, and $5,000,000 liability insurance. Certificates go out the same day you ask.
Beyond EV Charging

We Work Across
the Whole Building

EV charging is one part of what we do. Condominium corporations and property managers use us for common-area and lobby lighting, fire alarm installation and deficiency correction, garage CO detection and ventilation controls, emergency power, and fault tracing. See our full range of electrical services for property managers and condominium corporations, or read how a parking-garage CO ventilation system gets wired and proven across trades.

Get a Straight Answer
on Capacity

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