Belgium Cancellations: Registry Bridge to Brussels, Flanders, Wallonia and Federal Renewable Registries

The Friction: Four Registries

Prior to the rollout of Soldera’s universal EAC registry integrations , Belgium was a difficult country when it came to managing EACs. That’s because Belgium’s regional government layout is also reflected in its GO registry operators. Guarantee of Origin (GO) management is a process that sits across BRUGEL in Brussels, VREG in Flanders, SPW Energie in Wallonia, and CREG for the federal offshore domain, so any market participant that is trying to manage Belgian cancellations in a specific region will need to have an account in each registry (other than CREG, where cancellations are not possible, as the CREG offshore domain has no end consumption to cancel against).

Ultimately, market participants can quickly end up dealing with four separate workflows instead of one platform - a hotbed for context-switching and unproductivity. Not only this, but none of Belgium’s registries offer public APIs, so until now, a custom integration was needed to integrate these registries with your system.

Registry Bridge to BRUGEL, VREG, SPW Energie & CREG

Thankfully, this fragmentation ends here. Through Registry Bridge, Soldera wraps all four registries into one fully integrated, unified platform with a hosted account that clients can use for centralised registry execution. Brussels and Flanders cancellation statements can be generated fully in-platform without any friction, and Wallonia can be supported for a bespoke fee due to our local supplier connections, who have the ability to cancel. If you have pre-existing supplier status in Wallonia, we can also enable cancellations in the Soldera web app simply by linking to your existing account.

More Than Just Local Cancellations: Full Functionality

The practical value also extends beyond the fact Soldera’s platform provides cancellation certificates from local registries (necessary for compliant cross-border Scope 2 reporting). Soldera’s hosted account effectively enables every action that a registry does. You can use it to receive and send GOs with your existing counterparty network, with the added benefit of:

• Functional access to every other international energy attribute certificate registry

• EAC procurement and sales channels used by Soldera’s global counterparty and client network - including access to local volumes from each Belgian jurisdiction, made possible thanks to our network of renewable producers in the country that use Soldera for GO sales management.

• Multi-certificate management (including Belgian assets like Green Certificates - known locally by their abbreviation as GCs or CVs).

Soldera is designed to solve complex GO management needs at an enterprise level. For a personalised look at our platform, book a demo.

For more information on Soldera’s connections to local registries, see our article on registry integration software and APIs . Or, for country-specific buying context, see our fact-file on Belgium GOs here.