Home battery installer in Antwerp

Where the battery goes in an Antwerp house

Space is the first question in the city. A terraced house in Berchem or Wilrijk usually has a basement, a utility room or a garage at the back where the battery and inverter can hang on a wall near the fuse box. Batteries need a dry, frost-free spot with some ventilation and should not be mounted in a bedroom or on an escape route. In apartments it is more complicated: the battery must be on your own meter, and the building association needs to agree to anything in shared areas. We look at the floor plan during the site visit and tell you honestly whether it fits.

Many installations in the city also involve the fuse box. An older box without a spare row or without a 30 mA residual current device needs adapting before a battery can be connected. We do that in the same project, because we are electricians first.

• Battery added to existing solar panels, with a hybrid or separate inverter
• New installation with panels, inverter and battery as one system
• Backup circuit so fridge, heating and lighting keep running during an outage
• Fuse box adaptation, inspection and registration with Fluvius

The capacity tariff, explained

Since 2023 the grid fees in Flanders depend partly on your highest quarter-hour peak each month, measured by the digital meter. This is the capacity tariff. A household that cooks, charges a car and runs the dryer at the same time at seven in the evening pays more than one that spreads the load. A battery covers those peaks from its own stored energy, so the meter sees a flatter profile. Combined with the low price you get for electricity exported to the grid, this is why batteries are still being installed in Flanders even though the regional subsidy has ended.

Whether it pays off for you depends on your consumption profile, your contract and the price of the installation. We ask for your data from the Fluvius app or portal, calculate a payback period and show it to you before you decide.

Inspection and registration

A home battery changes your electrical installation, so it must be inspected by an accredited body, and every battery must be registered with Fluvius, the grid operator for the whole province. We take care of both and give you the documents in a form you can forward to your landlord, your energy supplier or a future buyer. If you plan to add an EV charger later, we size the inverter and the fuse box with that in mind.