Solar panels & home battery

Home battery and self-consumption

A home battery stores your surplus for the evening, increases your self-consumption and can smooth out your quarter-hourly peak, which counts towards the capacity tariff. Ahmed explains honestly what a battery will deliver in your situation, so you know what you're getting into.

• Battery connected to your inverter and consumer unit
• Using more of your own solar power
• Lower quarter-hourly peak, relevant to the capacity tariff
• Honest advice on whether a battery is worth it for you

Inspection, digital meter and registration

Every new solar panel installation must pass an AREI inspection before commissioning; without a positive certificate, Fluvius will not connect you. Ahmed ensures everything complies, helps arrange the inspection and registers the installation with Fluvius, submitting the certificate and the technical data sheets.

• Installation in accordance with the AREI, ready for inspection
• Inspection and Fluvius registration arranged as part of the process
• Explanation of your digital meter, feed-in and yield
• A new inspection is required in the event of a subsequent inverter replacement or upgrade

VAT and what you can still expect

For solar panels on a property that has been in use for at least 10 years, supply and installation is charged at 6 per cent VAT instead of 21. There is no new Flemish grant for panels or batteries in 2026. Ahmed looks in advance at what makes sense in your situation and gives you a clear price.