Since 2026, businesses and households can have the electricity they deliver to electric vehicles registered by a registration service provider (in Dutch: inboekdienstverlener). Dozens have appeared in a short time. That makes choosing harder, and it makes starting one yourself look tempting.
This article gives a sober view of both sides: what to look for when choosing a registration service provider, what it costs, which requirements the NEa sets, and what it really takes to become one yourself.
What a registration service provider does
A registration service provider registers electricity delivered by others in the Register Energy for Transport (REV) of the Dutch Emissions Authority (NEa). For that registration, the provider receives the emission reduction units (EREs) in its own account. It sells them, usually to fuel suppliers with an annual obligation, and pays its customers according to the contract.
Two consequences that are often underestimated:
- The EREs are not in your name. What you receive depends on the agreements with your provider: sales policy, commission and payout timing.
- The NEa addresses the provider, not you. The NEa does not communicate with a provider’s customers. Enforcement targets the account holder. As a customer you do have to cooperate with inspections, including a site visit.
Choosing a registration service provider
A low commission means little if the file does not hold up at verification. These questions help when comparing:
- Does the party have an open account in the REV? Since October 2026 the NEa publishes an overview of account holders. A listing is not a quality judgement, but without an account nothing can be registered.
- Who is the verifier, and is verification included in the price? Annual verification by an accredited verifier is mandatory. Ask whether one has been contracted and who bears the cost.
- How is the authorisation set up? Every business, including every subsidiary, authorises separately. An authorisation (machtiging) covers full calendar years and may not be renewed tacitly. Ask how the provider handles new grid connections and renewal.
- Can the party demonstrate your situation? The grid connection must be registered in the Central Connection Register (CAR) in the name of your business. Owning a secondary allocation point is not enough. If the connection is not used for transport only, the meter must be MID-certified. Charging hubs on a shared connection, business parks and owners’ associations (VvEs) are where this often goes wrong.
- How does the charging data come in? Directly from your CPO’s back office or the charger’s cloud, or through exports you supply yourself? That determines how much work it costs you and how verifiable the data is.
- How are EREs sold and paid out? Ask about the sales policy, the price basis and the payout schedule. Registrations between 1 January and 1 May are only credited after 1 May. A provider that pays out earlier is pre-financing that.
- What happens in case of a correction? The NEa can correct up to five years after the calendar year of registration. Check the contract for whether amounts already paid out can be reclaimed.
- Can you leave, and what do you take with you? You can appoint only one registration service provider per calendar year, so switching happens on 1 January. Ask whether you receive your data and the evidence file.
Do you deliver demonstrably 100 percent renewable electricity, for example from your own solar panels? Then ask whether the provider can demonstrate simultaneity of generation and delivery per hour. Without that substantiation, registration uses the grid average.
What a registration service provider costs
Most providers charge a percentage of the ERE proceeds. Public comparisons of providers for households showed roughly 10 to 28 percent in October 2026, with around 20 percent as the midpoint. For businesses it is more often tailored, depending on volume, number of locations and the quality of the data sources.
Do not compare the percentage alone:
- What is the commission calculated on? The gross sales price, or a price from which market or trading costs have already been deducted?
- Which costs come on top? Verification, onboarding or per-location fees are sometimes charged separately.
- Including or excluding VAT? For businesses usually excluding, but not always clearly stated.
- Term and rate are often linked. A lower percentage regularly comes with a longer contract.
What counts in the end is the net proceeds per kWh, and the certainty that those proceeds will not be corrected years later.
NEa requirements
The NEa lists the conditions for registration service providers. The main ones:
| Requirement | What it means |
|---|---|
| Registration | In the Trade Register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK). |
| Threshold | Able to register at least 2 million kWh per year, or at least 200 authorisations. To be demonstrated when applying for the account. |
| Account in the REV | For registration year 2026, the NEa’s step-by-step plan states that an account can be opened up to and including 15 December 2026. |
| Authorisations | In writing, for full calendar years, not renewed tacitly. Including details of the connected party, the EAN, consent for the NEa to request CAR data, and consent for the verifier to inspect the charging location. |
| Metering | Registration based on measured data from a metered delivery point; an MID-certified meter if the connection is not used for transport only. |
| Records | Demonstrate for whom was registered and that the quantities are correct: authorisations, customers with address, EAN and supplier, processes for onboarding, data collection and internal control, kWh data, type numbers and MID certification, invoices. |
| Verification | Annually by an accredited verifier; the report must be in before 1 May. |
| Liability | The provider is liable for errors. The NEa can correct EREs or impose a fine. |
On top of that comes a fixed annual rhythm. Deliveries in a calendar year can be registered up to and including the last working day before 1 March of the following year (for 2026: 26 February 2027). Transfers of EREs must take place before 1 April. Verification must be completed before 1 May. Missing any of these dates means losing EREs or being in breach.
For households, additional evidence requirements apply. Per customer, the provider must demonstrate five things: the quantity delivered, a charger on that connection, ownership of the connection for the entire period, an MID meter that is actually built into the charger, and the authorisation. If the name, address or EAN changes, a household’s authorisation is no longer valid.
Becoming a registration service provider
The role is open to any business that meets the requirements. Anyone considering becoming one would do well to make an honest calculation of the economics and the workload first. Registration services are not an administrative side line. They are a compliance business with a thin margin per kWh.
The calculation
In 2026, one kWh of grid electricity yields about 0.333 ERE. Assume an ERE price of €0.40 and a commission of 20 percent. This is an illustration; ERE prices move with the market.
| 200 households × 2,500 kWh | 2 million kWh | |
|---|---|---|
| Registered kWh | 500,000 | 2,000,000 |
| EREs (× 0.3327) | ± 166,000 | ± 665,000 |
| Gross proceeds (× €0.40) | ± €66,500 | ± €266,000 |
| Your margin at 20 percent | ± €13,300 | ± €53,200 |
From that margin you pay for verification, software and integrations, customer service, acquisition, legal documents, pre-financing of payouts and a buffer for corrections. At the threshold that is tight. And you must be able to demonstrate the threshold before you get an account.
What it takes on an ongoing basis
- Onboarding customers with checks up front: ownership of the connection in the CAR, presence and type of the charger, an MID meter that is really in that model and that variant, no duplicate sign-up with another provider.
- Managing authorisations: per business and per subsidiary, in full calendar years, without tacit renewal. When they expire the customer must sign again, and for households also after every change of name, address or EAN.
- Collecting and checking data: integrations with charger clouds and CPO back offices, deviating sessions, wrong clocks, duplicate or missing readings. Every kWh must be traceable to a metered delivery point.
- A file a verifier accepts: process descriptions, internal control and evidence per customer. The judgement lies with the verifier, and specific situations may call for extra evidence.
- Withstanding supervision: NEa inspections, site visits at your customers that you must facilitate, and five years of correction risk with possible fines.
- Selling EREs: EREs from electricity for road transport are only tradable within the land sector. You need buyers, carry price risk and must take the year closure and the banking limit into account.
- Paying out and pre-financing: customers expect money regularly, while crediting and sales follow their own rhythm.
- Other legislation: the GDPR (you process name, address, EAN and consumption), consumer law for households, and your terms and conditions.
- Keeping up: the NEa stresses that a registration service provider must know and keep following the regulations well. The system is new and is still being refined.
Three routes
| Build it yourself | White-label on existing infrastructure | Refer customers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your brand and customer relationship | Yes | Yes | No, or limited |
| Software, integrations, evidence file | Develop and maintain yourself | Already in place | Not needed |
| Own REV account and threshold | Yes | Your choice: own account, or through an existing account holder | No |
| Responsibility towards the NEa | Entirely yours | With the account holder | With the provider |
| Suitable if | You have large volumes, an in-house compliance function and development capacity | You have a brand or customer base and want to offer ERE services without building the chain yourself | ERE does not need to be part of your proposition |
One thing does not change in any of the routes: whoever holds the account answers to the NEa for every registration. Good infrastructure makes that manageable, but it does not remove the responsibility.
Sources and next steps
This article is based on the NEa page Inboekdienstverleners and the Stappenplan inboekdienstverlener (both in Dutch, consulted October 2026). The calculation uses the grid percentage of 50.5 percent for 2026 and an assumed ERE price. Always consult the current NEa text when making decisions.
Further reading: Register EREs yourself or outsource?, How many EREs does EV charging yield? and Preparing for registration verification. Not sure whether a charger model has an MID meter? Check the charge point register.
Charge points at multiple locations? See for businesses. Want to offer ERE services under your own brand? See white-label or for registration providers.