Do I have to wait for the next junta to install a charger?

No. You notify the community in writing in advance; you are not asking them to approve it, so there is nothing that has to be tabled at a meeting. That matters here, where juntas are often scheduled around non-resident owners.

I am only here for part of the year. How is the electricity billed?

Through a dedicated meter or your own supply, so the consumption is unambiguously yours regardless of who is administering the community at the time. Informal settling-up is fragile when the owner is abroad for most of the year.

EV Charger Installation Playa de San Juan

Playa de San Juan is the beach district of Alicante city, not the inland municipality of Sant Joan d'Alacant.

Its garages are large and shared, and a high proportion of owners are non-resident, which changes what a good installation looks like.

Communal garages when half the owners are abroad

The legal position here is the same as anywhere in Spain: you may install a charging point in your own space and you notify the community in writing beforehand rather than asking permission. What is different in this district is the practical reality that a large share of the owners are not resident, which changes how the process actually runs.

The first consequence is timing. Juntas happen when non-resident owners can attend, decisions about communal infrastructure move slowly, and an owner who wants a point installed in April may be waiting on a meeting scheduled for August. Because notification does not depend on a meeting, this is a good reason not to wait for one.

The second consequence is metering, and it matters more here than almost anywhere. When the owner of a space is in another country for nine months, an informal arrangement to settle the electricity with the administrator is fragile: people change, records are lost, and the consumption of a car charging all winter is not trivial. A dedicated meter or an individual supply removes the question permanently.

The third is future-proofing. These garages are large, often with a hundred spaces or more, and the second wave of installations is already happening. Running containment that can carry more circuits later costs very little at the time and saves the community from a garage ceiling covered in unrelated cable runs installed one at a time.

Work we have done

Photographs of installations we carried out ourselves. No stock photography.