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Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

NACE 35160 · division 35 Electricity, gas and steam
Current registrations 17division 35: 1,767
Starters, 12 months 847.1 per 100 · Belgium 8.9

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 16 of 17 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 9 · 56.3%
  • Brussels 5 · 31.3%
  • Wallonia 1 · 6.3%
  • Abroad 1 · 6.3%
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The balance sheets of division 35 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Companies

17 with this main activity

Division 35: Electricity, gas and steam

Related activities

5 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Production of electricity from non-renewable sources35110 708 4 0 13,337
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply35150 544 17 4 1,900
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply35140 107 8 1 3,835
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply35120 105 16 0 104
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply35130 30 0 0 1,849

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 35 · financial year 2025 · 963 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
32.5%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€22,526
Belgium €16,497
Median equity
€447,766
Belgium €98,338
Loss-making
36.5%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.8%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
7.1%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.37
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
26.7%
financial year 2024, 913 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.4%
of 1,022 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --33.8%31.6%32.1%32.7%33.5%32.5%
Median net result --€43,779€38,492€54,180€57,606€15,613€22,248
Filed late 27.6%34.1%31.6%32.8%27.3%24.1%26.7%-

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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

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Foreign control in NACE division 35

1,321 registered companies
Companies with a foreign parent
3.5%
46 of 1,321; Belgium 0.3%
Staff at those companies
25%
5,392 of 21,304 FTE; Belgium 14%

Main parent countries: France (13), Netherlands (11) and Japan (5).Show on the map by municipality

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
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €627,278 paid 1 recipient · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subventions de fonctionnement aux internats
  • 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
  • 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. In 12 months, 47.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more. This activity holds 1.0% of the registrations of Electricity, gas and steam.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 35160 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 35160, 5 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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