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Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

Current registrations 30division 35: 1,771
Employment (FTE) 1,8494 employers · latest accounts
Median age 6.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 93.3%28 of 30 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 28 of 30 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 20 · 71.4%
  • Brussels 5 · 17.9%
  • Wallonia 2 · 7.1%
  • Abroad 1 · 3.6%
fewer moremax 7

Largest employers

NACE 35130 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 ELIA ASSETBrussels 1,000 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Elia Transmission BelgiumBrussels 612 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 ABBMachelen (Brab.) 234 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 WindGridBrussels 4.1 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

30 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 5 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 2
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
  • 326 Gas and electricity 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 35: Electricity, gas and steam

Related activities

5 other activities

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 35 · financial year 2025 · 967 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
32.6%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€22,615
Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€448,873
Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
36.4%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.8%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
7.1%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.36
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
27.0%
financial year 2024, 917 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.4%
of 1,026 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --34.0%31.6%32.1%32.8%33.9%32.7%
Median net result --€43,871€38,912€54,180€57,707€15,758€22,332
Filed late 27.8%34.2%31.4%32.6%27.3%23.9%27.0%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 35

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies6978944613692
Jobs lost612112121456201915132

2026 through August. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 35

130 employers
Median
€90,300
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€62,400 to €118,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
5 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €80,900 €50,800 to €103,100 61
10 to 49 FTE €94,700 €63,500 to €110,200 47

Foreign control in NACE division 35

1,325 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €1.32bn awarded 141 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Netbeheerdervergoedingen opkoop certificaten
  • Federal transfers 325.8m amount as published 9 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie aan NV ELECTRABEL in het kader van de verlenging van de de kerncentrales Doel 4 en Tihange 3
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €627,278 paid 1 recipient · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subventions de fonctionnement aux internats
  • EU budget €186.4m attributed share 18 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Innovation Fund
  • EU research €14.9m EU contribution 25 recipients · 2008 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

Inflow and structure. 6.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 6.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. This activity holds 1.7% of the registrations of Electricity, gas and steam.

Staff and filing. The 4 largest employers hold 1,849 of the 1,849 FTE: 100.0%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 35130 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 35130, 20 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.