Energy sharing · Between neighbours · Brussels
Peer-to-peer energy sharing between neighbours in Brussels
Your surplus, next door.
Not lost to the grid.
No solar panels at home? A neighbour who has them can sell you the electricity they produce but don’t use. It travels over the ordinary grid: no need to share a roof or a building. You set the price together, and you keep your supplier for everything else.
Account and app free during testing. The €20 dongle isn’t needed to share: it lets you follow the sharing in the app.
Who can take part?
- In Brussels, peer-to-peer sharing is between two households on Sibelga’s network: a neighbour with panels and a neighbour who receives their surplus. You don’t need panels to receive.
- A smart meter in each home: Sibelga measures the sharing with it, quarter-hour by quarter-hour. For a sharing, Sibelga replaces it free of charge.
- Buying from several neighbours makes you subject to a supplier’s obligations: Brugel sets them out.
You have no panels
You receive electricity from a neighbour
What you gain
An example in Brussels, at October 2026 prices, with an agreed price of 12 c€ per kWh:
Sources: Brugel’s network tariffs for sharing (2026) and a supplier’s price card, October 2026.
The 12 c€ is only an example: you set the price together, and it can even be zero. How many kWh you receive depends on the sun, your neighbour’s surplus and when you use electricity.
Are your meter and your neighbour’s on the same low-voltage substation, the electrical station that supplies your neighbourhood? You can’t see it yourself: ask Sibelga.
What it costs you
You pay your neighbour the agreed price, plus the network charges and taxes on the shared electricity: they invoice you for them. So you get two bills: your neighbour’s for the shared electricity (agreed price, network charges and taxes included), and your supplier’s for the rest, which you keep. Also count Sibelga’s yearly metering fee, about €14 excl. VAT per participant. You don’t need the dongle (€20) to receive: it lets you follow the sharing in the app.
What you do
- Check that you have a smart meter. If not, ask Sibelga for one. No neighbour producing yet? Tell us where you live.
- Agree the price with your neighbour and sign the agreement.
- Your neighbour registers the sharing with Sibelga. Once the sharing is active, your supplier no longer bills you for the shared electricity, based on the volumes Sibelga measures.
- To follow the sharing in the app, your neighbour sets up the sharing in the app and invites you: open the link in the invitation email, or sign up with the address they invited, and the app offers you the invitation. ‘Just me’ only follows your own consumption.
Who does what?
You, receiving
You have a smart meter, sign the agreement and pay your neighbour. You keep your supplier for the rest.
Your neighbour, sharing
They sign the agreement, register the sharing with Sibelga, invoice you for the shared electricity and remain responsible for paying the network charges to Sibelga.
Sibelga
Sibelga replaces meters free of charge, registers the sharing, measures it every quarter-hour and bills the network charges to the neighbour who shares.
Amber Energy
The app shows you your electricity live and an estimate of the sharing, with the dongle. Amber Energy doesn’t draft the agreement, doesn’t register the sharing and doesn’t invoice anything for the sharing.
What you sign
The agreement sets the price, the invoicing rules and what happens if a payment is missed. Either side can end it free of charge with three weeks’ notice. It must be signed before the sharing starts. Brussels Environment publishes a model peer-to-peer sharing agreement (in French) for the two of you to complete.
Your meter readings stay linked to your Amber Energy account, and you can ask for them to be deleted at any time. Read our privacy policy.
Available in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders
Your dongle for €20, with help setting it up.
A dongle plugs into the P1 port of your smart meter and shows your electricity in real time, at home and in the sharing, on a simple dashboard. We arrange delivery and help you with the installation.
App access is free during testing. The dongle is a one-time purchase of €20. If the app ever becomes paid, nothing will be charged without your agreement.
In Brussels the P1 port is open by default; in Wallonia and Flanders, first ask your grid operator to open it.
To get started at home, create your account, verify your email address and log in. Choose ‘Just me’ to request your dongle.
Questions? Email us at contact@amber-energy.be.
What happens next
- Create your account. Choose ‘Just me’ to follow your own home — that is the choice that reaches the dongle request. If you are setting up a sharing with your neighbours, choose ‘Set up a sharing’: we activate your sharing in the app, then you invite your neighbours.
- We help you install it on your meter: you plug it in, activate it in the app in a minute, and we check that the readings arrive.
- You follow your grid flows live: what you draw and what you inject. If you have solar panels, tracking production and total consumption also requires a compatible inverter connection. You can already use the app without joining a sharing.
- When you do share, each participant needs a smart meter, you agree the price between yourselves, and the person representing the sharing registers it with your grid operator. Amber Energy then shows each person what they receive, in the app. You don’t need the dongle to receive shared energy: Sibelga measures the sharing with your smart meter. The dongle lets you follow the sharing in the app.
Why an app?
One producer, one neighbour, a price you agree between yourselves: simple on paper. The everyday question remains — is there solar next door right now? Without a tool, you have to ask every time.
Amber Energy answers live: your neighbour’s solar surplus available now, what it has already sent you today and what you draw from the grid. You pick the right moment to run your appliances.
See where every watt goes.
Amber Energy follows what you share with your neighbours every 15 minutes and shows each household, in real time, what it draws from the grid and its estimated share of the shared electricity. With a compatible inverter, it also sees what comes from its own panels. The official volumes used for billing are set by Sibelga, so the final statement can differ slightly from what you see day to day.
Live
What you use and where it comes from: your panels, your neighbours or the provider. Right now. Production needs a compatible inverter.
Your day
When the sun was there, and when you could make the most of it.
History
Day by day, month by month, year by year: where your electricity came from.
Managing the sharing
For whoever manages the sharing: invite members, see how the energy is split, follow the group’s figures.
What is peer-to-peer sharing?
Amber Energy is available in all three regions. The peer-to-peer sharing described below is the Brussels framework. For what is possible in your own region, consult CWaPE in Wallonia or Fluvius in Flanders.
Peer-to-peer sharing lets participants exchange solar electricity over the public network, without a shared roof. You choose who to share with and agree an energy price. In Brussels, obligations depend on the project’s configuration: check BRUGEL’s peer-to-peer conditions before starting.
How does it work in Brussels?
Brussels has a single grid operator (Sibelga) and a single regulator (Brugel) — the path is the same across the whole Region:
- Each participant has a Sibelga smart meter.
- Producer and neighbour sign an agreement fixing the price — freely, even free of charge.
- The sharing is registered with Sibelga, which measures quarter-hour by quarter-hour.
- Shared energy is billed separately; everyone keeps a supplier for the rest.
That quarter-hour split is exactly what Amber Energy follows and makes visible for every household.
- Sibelga smart meters for each participant
- Agreement between producer and consumer (price)
- Quarter-hour distribution method
- Registration of the sharing with Sibelga
- Supplier kept for the rest of your consumption
Amber Energy doesn’t replace Sibelga, Brugel or your supplier: the app makes sharing clearer, more transparent and easier to follow.
The three recognised forms in Brussels
Brussels recognises three forms of energy sharing. See the overview.
Between neighbours
Peer-to-peer sharing: a house with panels shares its surplus with another household in the street or neighbourhood. You’re reading about this one.
Within the same building
Panels on the building’s roof supply the apartments. A common form in Brussels.
The energy community
The legal entity for larger projects — citizens, SMEs, public bodies — with an authorisation issued by Brugel.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need my own solar panels to take part?
No. To receive, you need a smart meter and a neighbour with a solar surplus. As a producer, you share the surplus your own panels don’t use. Each side needs a smart meter, which Sibelga replaces free of charge for a sharing — following it in Amber Energy adds our dongle on your meter.
How do I find neighbours to share with?
In Brussels, anyone on the Sibelga grid nearby can take part — a neighbour across the street, a relative two doors down, a friend on the next block. You choose who joins. No interested neighbour yet? Tell us where you live: we’ll write to you as soon as energy sharing gets going near you.
Who sets the price of the shared energy?
You do, together. The price of a shared kilowatt-hour is agreed freely between participants — it can even be zero. Whether that beats injecting, and by how much, depends on your tariffs and on what injection currently pays.
Do I have to change energy supplier?
No. In Brussels the shared electricity is billed separately, and your supplier bills only what the sharing doesn’t cover. You keep a supplier for the rest.
What does it cost?
The dongle is a one-time purchase of €20, and we help you install it. App access is free during testing. If the app ever becomes paid, nothing will be charged without your agreement.
What happens to my data?
Your meter readings are linked to your account, to show your own energy and work out your share of the sharing. Detailed readings are kept for about a month and then summarised. We run no advertising, the app contains no third-party tracking, and this site only counts visits, without cookies. You can ask us to delete your account and its data at any time, for example if you move; the dongle stays yours. Leaving a sharing follows the agreement between the participants and the rules of your region. Read our privacy policy.
Your neighbour’s surplus, powering your home.
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