Households who are discharged from their commercial energy supplier due to non-payment can turn to the Fluvius grid operator, who acts as a social provider.
“As of September 1, 2022, there were 77,795 families in that case,” says Björn Verdoodt of Fluvius. “This is a limited increase of 5.5 percent from January 1 this year. 77,795 households in 2022 are still lower than the more than 80,000 we had in our portfolio in 2020 and 2021. The only minor increase in the past months can certainly be attributed to the expansion of the social rate, which has a really big effect. “
According to Fluvius, there is a chance that this number will increase further in the coming months, as families’ cheaper permanent contracts expire or when they receive the annual declaration that increasingly refers to expensive months.
