When subsidies fade, performance matters. Protect Energy Asset Revenues

Energy Services & Solutions

Belgium’s energy market is moving away from passive production and toward flexible, controllable, revenue-aware assets. Green Certificates scheme in Belgium and Brixelles Area is fading away, resulting in potentially distressed CHP assets. Sites that can reduce peaks, shift load, store energy and coordinate production are better placed to defend margins as tariff structures, support regimes and market rules evolve.  

A lot of legacy energy assets were underwritten in a different market.

Many CHP and hybrid building-energy projects were designed when support mechanisms were stronger and energy price logic was simpler. That logic is weakening. In Brussels, BRUGEL stated that support for gas cogeneration in collective housing would cease on 1 January 2025. At the same time, network charging and flexibility needs are putting more value on peak management, controllability and smart dispatch.

What Altair does to protect energy asset revenue?

We turn static energy assets into managed energy systems.

Altair Energy Partners helps clients:

• reduce peak demand and grid costs,
• increase self-consumption from on-site PV,
• improve the operating logic of CHP, thermal buffers and batteries,
• prepare sites for aggregator-based flexibility strategies,
• select compliant storage and control architecture,
• align technical design with financial outcomes.  

Who this is for?

Best fit clients

• ESCOs and SPVs with legacy CHP portfolios
• residential and mixed-use portfolios
• hospitals, care homes and hotels
• sites with PV but poor self-consumption
• buildings facing peak-cost pressure or reinvestment decisions

Why now?

Because doing nothing is also a strategy — just a very expensive one.

Three forces are converging:

1. Support erosion: some legacy subsidy logic is disappearing, especially for specific cogeneration segments.  
2. Tariff pressure: in Flanders, part of distribution charging is based on simultaneous power use rather than only kWh consumed.  
3. Flexibility value: EU institutions and system operators are increasingly clear that batteries, demand response and flexible assets are needed to contain price peaks and integrate renewables.  

Our approach to protecting energy asset revenues

1. Audit the existing asset stack

CHP, PV, heat production, thermal storage, load curves, metering and controls.

2. Identify trapped value

Peak costs, curtailed value, excess production, weak dispatch logic, low self-consumption, poor operating sequences.

3. Add the missing layer

Battery storage, EMS, metering, controls, aggregator-readiness, financial model.

4. Prove the economics

We size and configure around site behaviour, not brochure fantasy.

“We help owners and operators of existing energy assets defend cash flow as support schemes fade and power markets become more volatile.”

Brussels ended support for gas cogeneration in collective housing from 1 January 2025, Flanders has applied a capacity-based network tariff since January 2023, and EU policy is pushing harder toward flexible, digitally managed assets and compliant batteries. It is time to think strategically.