Territory

Energy short circuit

An electricity supply chain reduced to the minimum of commercial intermediaries between a local producer and its consumers. Unlike the food short supply chain, defined by the Walloon administration as allowing at most one intermediary, it never removes the network operator, whose charges remain payable: it shortens the energy component of the bill, not the physical path of the current.

Also known as: short supply chain for electricity, short circuit

Source: CWaPE

Terms used in this definition

• Energy component

In the same category

• Covenant of Mayors
• Local energy
• POLLEC
• Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan

Articles that use this term

• Energy communities: a guide for municipalities
• Local electricity: the short-circuit guide
• Green electricity in Belgium: really green?

Go further

Your electricity bill: understand and reduce it — Why it stays high, how to read it, which levers to pull and what “green” offers are really worth.

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