Connect local producers of green gas to the Belgian grid

Play an important role in Belgium's energy mix. Get your green gas into our grid and supply households and businesses with a carbon-neutral energy source.

Request a gas connection to the Belgian grid

You want to connect your local gas production to the Belgian grid:

• Fill in our information form.
• Send your completed form to info.transport@fluxys.com.
• We will then get in touch with you to make an appointment.
• At our first meeting, we will discuss your injection requirements and run through the full connection process in detail.

Next steps  

Your feasibility study

This feasibility study will indicate the most advantageous connection options for your site. Feasibility studies, which take at least 8 weeks to complete, look into:

• The best technical route for your connection.
• The capacity of Fluxys' gas injection station and its required functionalities
• The permits that will be required to built the connection and the gas injection station
• How much time obtaining all those permits will take.

Your offer and Standard Connection Agreement - Local Producer

Once the feasibility study has been concluded, you will receive a customised offer setting out:

• A schedule for your connection
• All the relevant technical data concerning your connection and the construction of Fluxys' gas injection station.
• A budget
• The annual capacity for which you will subscribe
• The amount of the bank guarantee to provide

In the Standard Connection Agreement  - Local Producer, you confirm that you are one of our customers. You can consult this document in French or in Dutch and the appendixes in French or in Dutch.

Who will bear which costs?

To promote the injection of green gas into the transmission network, Fluxys Belgium supports these connections and facilitates the injection in the following way:

• Costs for the Injection Station: 50% at the expense of the producer.
• Connection costs (pipeline): 100% covered by the producer unless the producer owns and operates the compression, see the explanation on the socialization of the connection cost.
• Bank guarantee: The producer's share of the cost is covered by a bank guarantee corresponding to the transmission capacity to be booked for a period of 15 years.
• Cash reimbursement: If the amount to be paid by the producer exceeds the value of the transmission capacity to be booked (at the regulated tariff) over a period of 15 years, this excess amount is covered by a cash payment. The cash portion covered by the producer will be reimbursed over a period of 15 years.
• Electricity costs: The electricity costs for Injection Station are covered by the producer.

Socialization of the pipeline costs

In the case where the producer owns and operates the compression of the green gas into the Fluxys’ high-pressure network, the following socialization principle applies:

• Fluxys determines the maximum amount it can socialize. This is calculated as 50% of the difference between the costs borne by Fluxys for an injection station with compression owned and operated by Fluxys, and an injection station without compression by Fluxys.
• For a pipeline shorter than 500 m, the entire pipeline costs are socialized.
• For a pipeline longer than 500 m:

• The first 500 meters are socialized at 100%, calculated as follows:

Pipeline costs × (500 m / total pipeline length)

• The section of the pipeline longer than 500 m is socialized at 50%, calculated as follows:

50% × pipeline costs × ((total pipeline length - 500 m) / total pipeline length)

• This results in a new cash value of the pipeline costs, respecting the maximum socializable amount and with a minimum of €0.

Below is a calculation example to further clarify this socialization principle for the injection of green gas into Fluxys’ high-pressure network (use of fictitious figures that are not representative):

• Injection station costs – compression by Fluxys: 7,000 k€
• Injection station costs – compression by the producer: 2,000 k€
• Pipeline costs: 3,000 k€
• Pipeline length: 1,500 m

Applying the socialization calculation:

• The maximum amount to be socialized is: (7,000 k€ - 2,000 k€) × 50% = 2,500 k€
• The socialized amount for the first 500 meters: 3,000 k€ × (500 / 1,500) = 1,000 k€
• The socialized amount for the remaining pipeline: 3,000 k€ × (1,000 / 1,500) x 50% = 1,000 k€
• The socialized amount of 2,000 k€ is not higher than the maximum amount to be socialized of €2,500 k€.
• The new pipeline costs are: 3,000 k€ - (1,000 k€ + 1,000 k€) = 1,000 k€

This new value is then used to determine the bank guarantee and cash value.

What is the waiting time for your connection?

The time elapsing between your application and the commissioning of your connection will depend on a number of factors:

• The duration of the permit procedures
• The length of the pipeline to be installed
• The construction and commissioning of the gas injection station
• The degree of technical difficulty involved Especially due to the time required to obtain permits, you should anticipate a waiting time of between 24 and 46 months.