Your simplified energy bill since January 1, 2022!

Since 2018, actors in the energy market and anti-security associations are jointly demanding that a simplified energy bill be established for consumer comfort. Well, that is how it works! Beginning January 1, 2022, suppliers are asked to send their customers a simplified invoice holding on a double-sided A4 page. So what does it understand?

Many Belgian consumers do not understand their energy bill

For millions of citizens, the energy bill remains a nebulous and difficult subject: 41% to be accurate. Yes, half of Belgian consumers, often in a precarious situation, feel that they do not understand their energy bill properly and perfectly. In question? There is too much information in it and the complexity of it.

Indeed, when analyzing an electricity or gas invoice in depth, one quickly realises that the terms used are not popularized and therefore not at the door of all. Thus, many Belgians do not know the price they pay, the differences between down payment invoice, gularization or closure, or even if they have access to a specific rate such as the social rate.

>> Read also: The essential guide to understand your energy bill!

What does the Royal Court say about a simplified energy bill for end-users?

April 2021, the Chamber Energy Commission has supported a project to simplify the energy bill for residential clients and small and medium-sized enterprises. This royal stop has taken effect since January 1st 2022.

Drawing in particular on a 2018 publication by the Kings Baudouin Foundation Locator Platform the Energy Commission decided:

• Simplified invoice cannot exceed two pages in double sided A4 format;