Legal
Legal entity
A constituted legal entity, mandatory to host an energy community: the European directives require it explicitly. In practice, the non-profit association and the cooperative are the commonest forms in Belgium.
Also known as: legal person
Source: Bruxelles Environnement
Terms used in this definition
In the same category
- Association of co-owners
- Condominium
- Energy ombudsman service
- Local authority
- Local Energy Commission
- Organising authority
- Residential lease
- Right of superficies
- Sharing agreement
Articles that use this term
- Renting: the no-roof guide to solar
- Solar panels: nobody home during the day
- Farm roofs: the energy-sharing guide
- Schools: a guide to energy sharing
- Energy communities: a guide for municipalities
- Energy sharing in a condominium: the guide
- Local electricity: the short-circuit guide
- Solar panels 2026: still worth it in Wallonia?
- Cheaper electricity without switching supplier
- Which electricity tariff to choose in Belgium?
- Reduce your electricity bill: Wallonia 2026
- Why your electricity bill stays high in Belgium
- Energy self-consumption in Belgium
- Join an energy community in Wallonia
- Create an energy community in Wallonia
- Energy communities in Belgium: CER, CEC, CEL
- Energy communities in Europe: RED II and IEMD
Go further
Energy communities: joining, creating, running — Understand the framework, join or create an energy community in Wallonia, then keep it running day to day.