From cost item to return: how e-credits drastically improve the business case of your charging infrastructure

e-credits are renewable energy certificates that you, as the owner of charging infrastructure, receive for every kWh of electricity you deliver to an electric vehicle. Fossil fuel suppliers buy them to meet their legal greening obligation, and you get paid for them.

In Belgium they are officially called Renewable Energy Units of type F, or REU-F (HEE-F in Dutch). They are registered with the FPS Economy.

It is the same European mechanism, with a different name in each country. Belgian law speaks of REU-F (HEE-F), the Netherlands of EREs (formerly HBEs), Germany of THG quotas and France of TIRUERT certificates (IRICC from 2027). "e-credits" is the umbrella term.

Yes. In France, renewable electricity from publicly accessible charging points has counted under the TIRUERT since 1 January 2022, the French counterpart of the Belgian REU-F system. The operator of the charging point issues the certificates and sells them to fuel suppliers.

The TIRUERT will be replaced by the IRICC, France's transposition of REDIII, on 1 January 2027 at the earliest. The exact rules for charging points under the IRICC, including depot charging of trucks and private charging points, have not yet been set.

Yes. In the Netherlands they have been called EREs (emission reduction units) since 1 January 2026, succeeding the HBEs. For charging points in the Netherlands, please visit our sister website ERE.energy.

Yes, for publicly accessible charging points, under the German THG quota. The operator of a charging point registered with the Bundesnetzagentur can have the charged electricity certified by the Umweltbundesamt and sell it to fuel suppliers. Since 2026, only electricity metered in line with German calibration law (Eichrecht) counts; a MID meter alone is not enough.

For non-public charging points, such as a closed company site or depot, the metered charging electricity cannot be claimed in Germany. There, the keeper of an electric vehicle does receive a flat-rate premium per vehicle.

The European Renewable Energy Directive (REDII, and since October 2023 REDIII) requires fuel suppliers to green a growing share of their sales for road transport. In Belgium this was 12.2% in 2025, rising to 14% in 2030; under REDIII it rises to 29% in 2030.

Suppliers can meet that obligation with biofuels, compensation projects or REUs. The REUs from electric road and rail transport are of type F.

No. No public money is involved: the fuel suppliers pay, in line with the "polluter pays" principle. That is why e-credits can be combined with the increased investment deduction and with leasing or charging-as-a-service schemes.

The owner of charging infrastructure that delivers energy to electric vehicles: companies, retail, hospitality, hotels, charge point operators and fleet managers. Public, semi-public and private charging points qualify, under the conditions below. Charging points at a private home are excluded for now in Belgium (under REDII).

In Belgium the mechanism is guaranteed until 2030. The Netherlands and Germany have already extended it to 2035 under REDIII; Belgium is expected to do the same when it transposes REDIII in 2027.

In 2026 you need 222 kWh of charged energy for one e-credit. That is because only 31.28% of the charging energy counts as renewable, the Belgian correction factor for 2026.

An average AC charging point earns about €324 gross per year, a DC fast charging point about €2,000. This is calculated at €9 per e-credit, the market price in September 2026, and the average volumes below; your actual volume depends strongly on location and use.

With a three-year agreement you keep 80%: €3,240 net for a charging hub of 100 MWh per year. Amounts excl. VAT; the simulator on the homepage calculates it for your situation.

Note: the minimum handling fee applies to every charging hub. For a single AC charging point nothing is left as a result; we recommend starting from three AC connectors.

The price is negotiated bilaterally with the fuel suppliers; there is no open market in Belgium yet. The examples use €9 per e-credit, the market price in September 2026, but the price fluctuates. We bundle the e-credits of dozens of charging hubs and sell them as one block, which gives a stronger negotiating position. You receive the deal sheet with your payout.

Yes, much more per kilometre, because heavy vehicles use more energy. An electric tractor unit using 130 kWh per 100 km earns over €5 per 100 km; one truck that charges 80,000 km per year on your own chargers yields over €3,350 net per year.

With the transposition of REDIII, currently planned during 2027, the same kWh can yield more than three times as many e-credits. If you show each quarter that the charging energy was generated renewably on site (solar, wind or biomass), 100% counts instead of 31.28%. You then need only 69 kWh per e-credit.

The transposition should have taken place on 1 January 2026; this is an outlook, not a commitment.

No, a battery does not generate e-credits itself. Under REDIII it does help: it lets daytime solar energy flow through your chargers at night, so a larger share of your charging volume can count as locally renewable.

Those are lost for good. Charging energy that is not declared within fourteen days after the end of the quarter can no longer be converted; there is no retroactive regularisation.

The difference lies in where the charging point is located and who may charge. The Royal Decree of 14 December 2023 on the register defines three types, each for a charging point with normal (up to 22 kW) or high power and a unique identification.

Charging points at a citizen's home fall under none of the three definitions, even when owned by a legal entity. Three AC charging points of 22 kW are already enough to reach the 50 kW threshold for private charging hubs.

Each charging point must be a device intended primarily for charging electric vehicles. Devices with a power of up to 3.7 kW that are not primarily intended for this, such as an ordinary socket, do not count. It must be connected to a MID-certified meter that measures only the charging energy, and log its charging sessions automatically in a CPO platform or the manufacturer's management platform. If your charging points are already MID-metered (typically the "pro" versions of chargers), no new hardware is needed.

Not without adjustments: without MID-certified metering the volume cannot be declared. A firmware update does not solve this, because metering is tied to the hardware of the meter in your charging point. A MID meter can, however, be installed on the electrical circuit feeding the chargers, provided that only chargers are connected to that circuit, and not, for example, car park lighting.

We are happy to look, together with you and/or your electrical installer, at what your installation needs to obtain certified metering of the charging energy. If an "external" MID meter is used, the single-line electrical diagram of your installation must also be made available to the administration.

No, only to private charging hubs on a closed site. Public and semi-public charging points have no minimum power.

Not for now. The law currently explicitly excludes charging points at a citizen's home, even when the home or the charging point is owned by a company.

The definition of an eligible charging point states: “Charging points at a citizen's home, owned by a legal entity or by a citizen, do not fall under this definition.” (unofficial translation)

There is lobbying to change this along Dutch lines.

Yes. The system is regulated federally by the FPS Economy and therefore works the same way in all three regions.

No. We are vendor-independent and work with any CPO platform and any manufacturer that can provide session data from an online platform to which you can give us access.

The RET register is the federal register in which charged energy is declared and converted into REU-Fs. In it, the volume charged per week is declared per charging point every quarter.

Every quarter follows the same fixed sequence, with one hard deadline: fourteen days after the end of the quarter.

1. The quarter runs; your charging sessions are logged automatically in your CPO platform or by the manufacturer of the charging point.
2. After the end of the quarter, we read out the sessions and check them for consistency.
3. From day ten after the end of the quarter, we format the data in the required format and file the declaration, well ahead of the legal deadline.
4. The FPS Economy allocates the e-credits.
5. We sell them, bundled, to the fuel suppliers.
6. You are paid before the end of the quarter in which the fossil fuel suppliers settle the e-credits.

Until ten days after the end of the quarter. We need the remaining days to process the data before the legal deadline of fourteen days.

Only the volume charged in kWh per charging point per week, with the identification of the charging point (the EVSE ID for public and semi-public chargers). Customer data and charging tariffs are not reported.

Then we guide you through that audit. Because we read the data at the source from your CPO platform, every declared kWh can be traced back to a MID-certified measurement and an individual charging session.

We only read the charging volumes needed for the declaration. We do not ask for access to your customer data or tariffs, and we do not store them.

We take over the entire file: registering your charging points with the FPS Economy, quarterly data extraction, checks and declaration, audit support, and the sale of your e-credits. We are a recognised registration service provider, registered with the FPS Economy.

One signature, one read access and your bank account number. You sign the authorisation form for the FPS Economy and give us read access to your CPO platform (or the manufacturer's management platform). After that you follow your e-credits online via our portal, hear from us every quarter and see the cash arrive in your account, with a self-bill invoice to which the deal sheet with the fossil fuel supplier is attached.

Nothing upfront: we deduct a handling fee from the proceeds, on a no cure, no pay basis. You receive no invoice, only a self-bill with your payout. See also our packages.

*The maximum applies only to the first 100 charging hubs of e-credits.io. Amounts excl. VAT.

We recommend starting from three AC connectors. The minimum handling fee applies to everyone; from three AC connectors (about 24 MWh per year) enough is left for you to make it worthwhile. In the end the decision is yours: the simulator on the homepage shows what you keep net.

Before the end of the quarter in which the fuel suppliers settle the e-credits. Your e-credits can be traded as soon as the FPS Economy allocates them; we monitor prices and sell at the best moment.

Yes, you can. You then take on all the complexity yourself: registering with the FPS Economy, the quarterly work against a hard deadline, and selling to the fossil fuel suppliers. Your own access to the RET register of the FPS Economy also costs €1,050 per year; with e-credits.io this access is included in the price, because we handle the registration on a pooled basis.

A single charging hub also has little negotiating weight; we sell in bundles and have not missed a single declaration since we started.

Yes, e-credits can be combined with leasing and charging-as-a-service. The e-credits belong to the owner of the chargers: it is the owner who can authorise another party to do something with the e-credits. Check your contract to see who the owner is. If in doubt, contact us to discuss it.