Billing
Grid tariff
The share of the bill covering use of the transmission and distribution grids. These costs remain payable on shared electricity: sharing acts on the energy component, not on the network component.
Also known as: network tariff
Terms used in this definition
In the same category
- Annual statement
- Billing
- Closing invoice
- Compensation
- Excise duties
- Green certificate
- Injection tariff
- Instalment invoice
- Internal transfer price
- Protected customer
- Residual energy
- Social tariff
- Standing charge
- Taxes
- VAT
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- Why your electricity bill stays high in Belgium
- Invoicing shared electricity in Belgium
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