Sale of Walloon green certificates to Elia
Wallonia has set up a scheme requiring the local transmission system operator to buy green certificates at a guaranteed minimum price.
Elia's role
The price of each green certificate that the local transmission system operator is required to buy is set at €65.
How do I sell my green certificates to Elia at the guaranteed minimum price of €65?
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Facilities with a capacity of 10 kW or less - normal green certificates
- If you use the administrative authority's extranet
When entering your meter readings, choose the following sales option: Je demande à Elia de racheter les certificats verts relatifs à la période ci-dessus au prix unitaire de € 65 (I want to ask Elia to buy my green certificates for the period at a unit price of €65). Once the administrative authority issues the green certificates, the sales transaction will proceed automatically. By law, the administrative authority has 75 days in which to draw up and send a payment list to Elia. Elia will make the relevant payments within 45 days of receiving the payment requests for Walloon green certificates from the administrative authority. The dates of receipt of requests for payment for Walloon green certificates are published below.You can find more information on recording your meter reading in the SOLWATT user guide.
- If you do not use the administrative authority's extranet
Each time you take a meter reading, fill in the form for submitting quarterly meter readings with a view to obtaining certificates (Relevé d’index trimestriel en vue d’octroi de certificats), which is available on the administrative authority's website. The administrative authority will record your meter reading when it receives your form. Once the administrative authority issues the green certificates, the sales transaction will proceed automatically. By law, the administrative authority has 75 days in which to draw up and send a payment list to Elia. Elia will make the relevant payments within 45 days of receiving the payment requests for Walloon green certificates from the administrative authority. The administrative authority will not process transaction forms sent by email or fax.
Please note that if you did not choose to sell your green certificates to Elia at the guaranteed minimum price of €65 when you were entering your meter reading data, you will no longer have the option of selling the certificates issued in connection with that meter reading to Elia.
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Facilities with a capacity of 10 kW or less - advance-issue green certificates
- If you use the CWaPE extranet
- If you do not use the administrative authority's extranet
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Facilities with a capacity exceeding 10 kWVisit the administrative authority's website for full details of the procedure to follow.
Additional steps to be taken by producers who are subject to VAT
Producers that are recorded in administrative authority database as being VAT-registered must send Elia an invoice to release the payment.Invoices can be sent by post Elia Transmission Belgium SA, Supplier Accounts, Boulevard de l’Empereur 20, 1000 Brussels or by email (in PDF format) to Invoice_GCV@elia.be.
Important change
Under the Transfer Decree adopted by the Walloon Parliament on 31 January 2019, which amends the Decree of 12 April 2001 on the organisation of the regional electricity market, the Walloon Public Service for Spatial Planning, Housing, Heritage and Energy took over the treatment of the files concerning green production since 1 May 2019. For the comprehension of the site, the term 'administrative authority' should be understood as referring to CWaPE before 30 April 2019 and the Walloon Public Service for Spatial Planning, Housing, Heritage and Energy from 1 May 2019 onwards.
