Battery Flexibility Revenue for CPOs in Belgium and the Netherlands: FLEXECHARGE and Yuso Join Forces

FLEXECHARGE is excited to announce a new partnership with Yuso, a leading balancing service provider based in Belgium, to help charge point operators across Belgium and the Netherlands turn their batteries into genuine revenue-generating assets. The partnership is already live on the ground, with Q8 Electric, one of the region's leading charging networks, as the flagship case.

Q8 Electric's high-power charging stations are equipped with batteries from Intercel and steered by HARMON-E, FLEXECHARGE's energy management system. Yuso now plugs directly into that setup as the certified balancing service provider, trading the flexibility of those batteries on the wholesale and balancing markets. It is, in short, three specialists doing what they each do best, together.

What does a balancing service provider actually do?

For readers less familiar with the term, a balancing service provider, or BSP, is the commercial link between a flexible asset, in this case a battery on a charging site, and the electricity markets. It forecasts the volume of flexibility available in real time, trades it on markets such as day ahead, imbalance, and frequency response, and ensures that whatever is delivered matches what the grid operator requires. Without a BSP, a battery's flexibility simply has nowhere to go. With one, it becomes a source of income. (For more on how these mechanics play out for EV charging specifically, see our earlier article on FCR and EV charging.)

The challenge, and the opportunity

Across Belgium and the Netherlands, charge point operators are hitting the same wall. As Michel Verschuere, founder and managing director of Yuso, put it on a recent episode of the Charge Point Podcast: "You need the CPO side, the hardware, the flexibility, the battery, and then you need a captain of the ship." Grid congestion means CPOs are rarely granted the full kilovolt-amps they ask for, so batteries have become essential just to deliver the charging speed customers expect.

Today, most of these batteries are limited to two jobs, boost charging when the grid connection falls short, and peak shaving to keep demand charges under control. Both are valuable, but both leave the battery idle for much of the day, precisely when it could be earning.

This is where the FLEXECHARGE and Yuso partnership changes the picture. HARMON-E already orchestrates every signal reaching the battery, site demand, grid operator constraints, and charging schedules, while keeping the driver experience seamless. Yuso adds one more signal to that mix, a live read of market opportunity. When the battery has spare capacity and state of charge to work with, Yuso flags the moment, and HARMON-E decides whether to act, without ever compromising the site's primary job of charging vehicles.

The result is multi value stacking in practice, not just in theory. The same battery that shaves peaks at noon can trade flexibility on the imbalance market at night. Revenue streams that used to require a standalone battery, disconnected from any charging site, are now available to a battery that is also doing useful work charging EVs.

For Q8 Electric, this means getting more out of an asset that was already on site for grid reasons alone. For FLEXECHARGE and Yuso, it is proof that the model works, technically, commercially, and operationally, at a real high-power charging network.

Ready to scale across the Benelux

Grid constraints are not unique to Q8 Electric. Charge point operators across Belgium and the Netherlands are facing the same congestion, the same missing kilovolt-amps, and increasingly, the same batteries sitting underused. The FLEXECHARGE and Yuso partnership offers a proven path forward, one that has already been tested in the field.

If your charging sites are running on batteries that only boost and shave, there is more value sitting untapped. FLEXECHARGE and Yuso are ready to help you find it.

Get in touch to explore what flexibility revenue could look like for your network, even beyond the Benelux, or listen to the full conversation with Michel Verschuere on the Charge Point Podcast.