Variablegrid Plus · For EV drivers
Plug in the way you always have. Plus pays you for every kilowatt-hour you charge, at home or in your building's garage, and quietly gives the grid a hand while it does it.
You earn
Every site. Every charger.
No points. No gift cards. No tiers to unlock. Real money, from your first session.
What it is worth
Your credit tracks actual metered energy through your charger. Drive more, earn more. Nothing to claim, nothing to submit, no receipts to keep.
Year to date $217.50, on pace for $373 this year.
| Your driving | kWh / mo | Credit / mo | Credit / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light, 600 km | 150 | $15 | $180 |
| Average, 1,200 km | 300 | $30 | $360 |
| Heavy, 2,000 km | 500 | $50 | $600 |
Illustrative, at 25 kWh per 100 km and $0.10 per kWh. Your credit accrues in the Varian app and you can withdraw it once the balance reaches $50.
The same rate applies whether you charge on a driveway or in a shared parkade, and it applies to the first kilowatt-hour as much as the thousandth. There is no starting tier to climb out of and no usage threshold to cross before the real rate begins.
What Plus costs
There is no cost to enrol and no monthly subscription. You are not buying a service, you are turning on a credit against charging you were going to do anyway.
No sign-up cost and no deposit. If you already have a Variablegrid charger, there is nothing to buy.
From your first session, at the same rate everywhere, with no threshold to cross first.
1,200 km a month, credited at $0.10 per kWh. Light drivers earn less, heavy drivers earn more, and nothing caps it.
Incentive payments are not subject to sales tax.
How it works
Enrol once, then charge the way you always have. There is nothing to schedule and nothing to remember.
Adaptive Power Management moves your charging into the cheapest hours and across whatever capacity your home or building actually has.
$0.10 per kWh accrues on every eligible session and shows up on your monthly statement in the app.
Need a full battery in an hour? Hit Priority Charge and the car charges straight through. Your call, every time.
What Plus includes
A cashback program is one line item. Plus is the whole advanced charging layer: the credit, the grid participation, the shifting, and the controls, in one membership.
01 · Cashback
Funded by clean fuel credits your charging generates. We register, verify and sell them, then hand the value back to you.
02 · Grid services
Your charger becomes part of a fleet that can stand down when the system is tight. You are enrolled automatically and you can always override.
03 · Smart charging
The part nobody else automates. Plus does not hand you a scheduling screen and call it smart charging.
04 · Control
The Varian app on iOS and Android. Everything Plus does in the background is visible, and everything is overridable.
Where Plus works
Every other pay-per-kWh program in Canada is single-family only, because a shared garage needs coordination they do not have. Plus covers both, at the same rate.
At home
At your building
Not sure whether your building is a Variablegrid site? Ask us and we will tell you in a day. If it is not, we will talk to your strata.
Standard, not an upsell
Plus versus a cashback program
| Variablegrid Plus | Typical pay-per-kWh program | |
|---|---|---|
| Works in a condo or apartment | Yes | Single-family homes only |
| Demand response | Included and automatic | Not offered |
| Who shifts your charging | We do, continuously | You do, with a schedule screen |
| Panel or building coordination | Patented and patent-pending, at every level | None |
| Rate on your first session | $0.10 / kWh | Often $0.03, stepping up after a usage threshold |
| Cost to enrol | $0 | $0, or a refundable deposit |
| How you are paid | Cash, on request from the app | Commonly gift cards or a quarterly transfer |
| Tiers or thresholds to unlock the real rate | None | Common |
Comparison reflects publicly posted terms of Canadian residential pay-per-kWh charging programs as of August 2026. Programs change their rates often; check theirs and ours before you decide.
How to enrol
Enrolment takes a few minutes and costs nothing. You are not signing up for a service, you are switching on a credit on charging you already do.
Path one
Enrol right here, in about a minute. Tell us the email on your Variablegrid account, which charger you have, and whether you charge at a stand-alone home or in a multi-unit building. We switch Plus on and confirm by email, usually within one business day.
Path two
Buy a Variablegrid charger from an authorized dealer. They will size it to your service, arrange the install, and enrol you in Plus at the same time, so the credit is running before you plug in for the first time.
One thing worth saying plainly
We never see or store your banking details. When you withdraw your credit, you enter your payment information directly with a secure third-party payment provider. It does not pass through Variablegrid, and we hold none of it. Not at enrolment, not at payout, not ever.
Questions
If you already have a Variablegrid charger, use the enrolment form on this page: the email on your account, which charger you have, and whether you charge at a stand-alone home or in a multi-unit building. We switch Plus on and confirm by email, usually within one business day. No installer and no appointment.
If you do not have a charger yet, buy one from an authorized Variablegrid dealer. They size it to your electrical service, arrange the install, and enrol you at the same time.
Nothing to enrol and nothing per month. There is no sign-up cost, no deposit, no subscription and no minimum, and your incentive is not subject to sales tax.
Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations require producers and importers of gasoline and diesel to lower the carbon intensity of the fuel they sell. They can meet part of that obligation by buying compliance credits, and electric vehicle charging generates those credits. Every kilowatt-hour you put in your car is a small, verifiable reduction with a market value.
Variablegrid does the regulatory work: metering the energy, reporting it, getting it verified, registering the credits and selling them. Your $0.10 per kWh is your share, paid whether the credit market is having a good quarter or a bad one.
Because a household cannot register one. Credits are created under the Clean Fuel Regulations by the charging network operator, through federal registration, monthly reporting, third-party verification and a government credit tracking system. That machinery costs more per year than a single home's credits are worth, which is why no program in Canada offers credits directly to drivers.
Plus is the trade: we carry the registration, the verification and the market risk, and you take a fixed, predictable $0.10 per kWh instead of an uncertain credit price. Participation includes our use of your charging data for grid services and environmental credit programs, set out plainly in the Plus terms.
Your credit accrues month by month in the Varian app. Once the balance reaches $50 you can withdraw it, and payment is handled through a secure third-party provider. You enter your details directly with them, so Variablegrid never sees or stores your banking information.
If you do not hit $50 in a given month the balance simply carries forward. Nothing expires.
Your session pauses or slows for a short window, usually inside the evening peak, then resumes. Events are infrequent, you get notice in the app, and you can opt out of any individual event before it starts. If you need the battery regardless, Priority Charge overrides everything.
The design target is roughly one kilowatt of reduction per driver per event. That is meaningful relief for the grid and, on an overnight charge, an amount of delay you will not notice.
Yes. Plus works backwards from when you actually leave, not from a fixed timer, and it keeps a margin. In the rare case you need a full battery sooner than planned, Priority Charge gives you the fastest charge your service can deliver, immediately.
Any Variablegrid charger, including the RS40 and RS48, on its own or bundled with the VarianHOME energy management system. Chargers at Variablegrid-managed buildings and fleet sites are already eligible. The charger has to stay online and connected, because energy that is never reported cannot be credited.
Yes. Plus itself has no lock-in. The one thing to know: if you bought your charger at a discount through a dealer program, leaving inside the first 36 months can mean repaying a prorated share of that discount. That is spelled out at the point of sale and in your terms, and it never applies to credit you have already earned.
No. The Varian app is where Plus lives: sessions, credit balance, Priority Charge, lockouts and event notices, all in one place, on iOS and Android.
Join Plus
Tell us where you park and what you drive. We will tell you what you would have earned last year, and whether your building is already a Plus site.
Talk to us
1-800-645-2314
support@variablegrid.com
We answer within one business day.
Variablegrid Plus is available to drivers on eligible Variablegrid equipment and at participating Variablegrid-managed sites, and is enabled at the site level. Credits are calculated on eligible metered charging activity recorded through enrolled equipment and reported to Variablegrid. Participation includes demand response and load shifting, and Variablegrid's use of charging data for grid services and environmental credit programs, as set out in the Plus terms. Demand response events are short, infrequent and overridable.
Earnings figures on this page are illustrative and depend on how much you drive. Plus rate current as of August 2026 and subject to change on notice. Variablegrid Adaptive Power Inc.