Billing

Residual energy

The share of your consumption that sharing does not cover and that your supplier keeps billing at your contract price. It always exists, because sharing only applies during the quarter-hours when local production is available.

Also known as: complementary energy

Source: CWaPE

Terms used in this definition

• Supplier
• Billing

In the same category

• Annual statement
• Closing invoice
• Compensation
• Energy component
• Excise duties
• Green certificate
• Grid tariff
• Injection tariff
• Instalment invoice
• Internal transfer price
• Protected customer
• Social tariff
• Standing charge
• Taxes
• VAT

Articles that use this term

• Local electricity: the short-circuit guide
• Green electricity in Belgium: really green?
• Cheaper electricity without switching supplier
• Read your Belgian electricity bill line by line
• Invoicing shared electricity in Belgium
• Billing in an energy community
• Energy self-consumption in Belgium
• Reduce your electricity bill: energy communities
• Join an energy community in Wallonia
• Create an energy community in Wallonia
• Energy communities in Belgium: CER, CEC, CEL

Go further

Pricing and invoicing in an energy community — Set a defensible price for shared kWh, then know who invoices what, with which VAT and which documents.

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