ERE registration: from authorisation to payout

In this article

1. Who registers what, and where
2. The threshold: booking in yourself or through a provider
3. Offtaker status: the requirement that strands most applications
4. Authorisations: per company, not per site
5. Step by step: from authorisation to payout
6. What you need in place beforehand
7. The deadlines your registration runs aground on
8. Data quality and what happens when it goes wrong

Who registers what, and where

Booking in is the conversion of supplied kWh into ERE’s in a REV account. Registration is the enrolment that makes it possible: you establish who may book in on behalf of which connection, and you make sure the evidence holds. The REV is the NEa's register in which those units are held and in which obligated parties demonstrate that they meet the fuel transition obligation.

This is where the market's most common confusion sits: whose name is the account in? The answer is unambiguous. The REV account is always in the name of the company holding the main connections, the offtaker. That offtaker can add employees of a service provider as users on the account, after which the provider carries out the booking and verification work. You outsource the work, not the account holding.

The REV itself is not a marketplace but a register: it records which units sit in which account and who transfers them. Trading in ERE’s happens outside it, between parties directly; the register only records the outcome. That distinction explains why a REV account on its own does not yet mean revenue.

Registering is also not the same as being entitled to ERE’s. Your registration opens the route; whether a booking actually holds up depends on the metering and the data quality. Those two determine in practice whether the process succeeds.

The threshold: booking in yourself or through a provider

The minimum an operator can book in independently per year is 2 million kWh, or they hold an account with a booking facility. If you do not reach that volume, booking in runs through an emission credit service provider, which takes over data collection, validation, registration in the REV, trading and payout.

	Booking in independently	Through a service provider
Threshold	2 million kWh a year, or an account with a booking facility	No volume threshold for you; the provider has one of its own
REV account	In your name, managed by you	In your name, provider works as a user
Who handles the evidence	You: metering, validation, GoOs, registration	The provider, on the basis of your authorisation
Metering	Always remains your responsibility	Always remains your responsibility

The two routes and their thresholds. Source: Regeling energie vervoer, article 9, and the NEa questions and answers on the threshold exception.

For a service provider booking in electricity from natural persons, meaning home chargers, an alternative threshold of 200 authorisations applies.

There is one exception few parties know about. To act as a service provider you must apply for a separate booking facility in the register. If your company already holds a booking facility for a fuel other than electricity, the threshold does not apply and you do not have to demonstrate meeting it.

To put those 2 million kWh in perspective: that is roughly 800 home chargers, or a substantial logistics charging site. The regulator's figures show what the market actually looks like. In 2025, 313 companies registered renewable energy, against 202 in 2024. Of those, 277 booked in renewable electricity, and those 277 together supplied 3.9% of all renewable energy booked in. Many participants, then, with a small volume each. That is precisely the NEa's own evidence for why aggregation through a provider exists.

Unsure whether your situation meets the threshold and the metering requirements? Metering is usually the deciding factor, not volume. For that, read MID meter and charge point.

Offtaker status: the requirement that strands most applications

This is where registrations run aground in practice, and it is explained almost nowhere.

To be able to book in you must be the offtaker on the connection. The NEa is explicit: "A secondary allocation point alone is not sufficient to meet the offtaker requirement. To be able to book in, a company must also hold the associated (main) connection / primary allocation point, not only the secondary allocation point."

Two things follow from that.

A secondary allocation point (SAP) is not a standalone route. You also need the associated main connection or primary allocation point. Anyone who has had a SAP installed on the assumption that this suffices will run into trouble at verification.

The grid operator has the final word, not your own records. You must be registered as the offtaker on the connection in the Dutch central connections register (CAR) maintained by the grid operators. The grid operator's data is decisive. In practice that means: check this before you start an application, not afterwards. If the connection is in the name of your landlord, your property owner or another entity within your group, that is the party that can book in, regardless of who paid for the charge point.

For a homeowners' association the same logic applies: an HOA qualifies for booking in, or for authorising a provider, if the main grid connection is in the HOA's name and electricity is supplied to transport at that location.

Authorisations: per company, not per site

The authorisation follows the legal entity, not the building.

• Multiple sites, one company. If all connections supplying transport are in the name of the same company, that company issues one authorisation to the service provider. All connections in its name fall under it. You therefore do not authorise per site or per EAN.
• Multiple independent sites within one company. These do not count as separate entities. One authorisation per entity, not per site.
• Subsidiaries. A parent company cannot authorise on behalf of its subsidiaries. Each company signs individually.

An authorisation also runs for at least one calendar year. Switching to a different provider is therefore possible from the next calendar year, not mid-term.

Step by step: from authorisation to payout

The process has five steps. The first two cost you time; the last three then largely run by themselves, provided the evidence holds. Where it goes wrong in practice is almost always step 1 or 2: an authorisation signed by the wrong entity, or a data connection delivering sessions that cannot be tied to a supply point.

1. Authorise one service provider → on the basis of that authorisation your validated kWh are booked as ERE’s into a REV account, and the authorisation runs for at least one calendar year.
2. Set up the data connection → your charging sessions are delivered automatically, preferably through a fixed connection (API or OCPP) from your charge point management system.
3. Have the session data validated → it is established which kWh belong to which supply point, in which period, so the volumes are attributable.
4. Register the validated volumes in the REV → they appear as ERE’s in the account held in the offtaker's name.
5. Have the ERE’s traded and paid out → they are sold to fuel suppliers that need them for their obligation, and the proceeds are paid to you.

From authorisation to payout in five steps. Source: NEa and the Regeling energie vervoer.

Two things stand out about that list. It is year-bound. You book in over a calendar year, and that year's records must be complete before 1 March of the following year. Starting later therefore does not cost you "waiting time" but revenue: sessions you cannot evidence, you do not book in.

And step 3 is the step that can render the other four worthless. Validation is not about whether you charged a lot of kWh, but about whether you can demonstrate for every kWh where it came from, where it went and when. A session without a traceable supply point does not count, however real it was. That is why a fixed connection is worth more than a monthly export: not because it is more convenient, but because its evidential weight is different.

What you need in place beforehand

Metering. The supplied volume is measured through a MID-certified meter that since 1 January 2026 must be integrated into the charge point, or through an exclusively metered allocation point. A separate MID meter in the meter cupboard no longer suffices. Companies that booked in with an external meter before 2026 have a transitional year: for them the full requirement applies from 1 January 2027. For private individuals there is no transitional year. Metering is a statutory evidential requirement, not a choice.

Offtaker status in the CAR. See section 3. Check this before you start.

Data quality. The NEa requires validated, attributable charging data. Manual or estimated exports are not prohibited, but they make errors and fraud easier, which means costly additional checking is needed for the booking to pass the annual verification. A fixed connection limits that risk.

Guarantee of Origin, for the 100% route only. If you want to book in renewable power from your own generation at the full factor rather than the grid average, you need a non-grid GoO equal to the volume booked in. Those GoOs are transferred to the NEa's account in the VertiCer register. It also applies that no operating subsidy may have been received over the booking period; a declaration from the RVO that no subsidy was granted in that period suffices. What that means for your yield is covered on the page about what a charge point earns.

The deadlines your registration runs aground on

Two annual deadlines are hard:

• Before 1 March: fuel supplies and electricity supplied to transport from the preceding calendar year must be registered in the REV.
• Before 1 April: obligated parties must hold sufficient ERE’s in their REV account to meet the obligation.

Your registration must therefore be settled well before those dates, because a full calendar year of records has to be complete in time. The full annual overview is in the ERE timeline 2026 to 2027.

Data quality and what happens when it goes wrong

Booking in independently is possible from 2 million kWh, but then you carry the whole burden: the metering, the data quality, the GoOs for the 100% route, the registration in the REV and the trading.

Booking in is voluntary but not without obligation. At the annual audit, independent verification of the underlying data takes place. If a booking fails that verification, the NEa can determine the position of its own motion and proceed to correction demands and fines, and those fines are substantial.

That verification is not a formality, and not a spot check on your file alone. A verifier assesses the booking as a whole: the metering data, traceability to supply points, the authorisations and the substantiation of the 100% claim if you make one. If you work through a provider, you are taken into that along with its entire client base. That means something few buyers realise: the quality of other clients' records affects you. A provider with a sloppy file elsewhere in its portfolio brings costly additional checking across the board.

That is the heart of choosing a provider, and it is a different question from the one most buyers ask. A booking that fails the check probably pays out nothing — it is investigated first — whatever amount per kWh was agreed. The question "what is the fee" is therefore less decisive than the question "what happens when a booking is rejected". What to look for in that choice is covered in how to choose an ERE service provider.

In this hub

• Applying for ERE credits: the short route for those ready to start
• ERE credits for private individuals: the home charger route and what differs there
• MID certification and metering requirements: whether your charge point is ERE-ready
• What a charge point earns: the revenue side, pillar 2
• ERE timeline 2026 to 2027: every deadline in one place

Curious what booking in means for your situation?

This is how Voltico's ERE service provision works, from the data connection through to payout.

What Voltico does for you here

Voltico oversees the five steps from authorisation to payout: we arrange the data connection, the validation and the registration in the REV, and keep your proceeds separate in a third-party account. You do not have to track the deadlines yourself.