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Fixed or Dynamic Electricity Contract: It Depends on Your Usage

The answer differs from household to household: when you use electricity (daytime, night, weekends) determines whether a dynamic contract with changing hourly prices works out cheaper than a fixed rate. There is no general advice that applies to everyone — it depends on your own quarter-hourly usage profile.

Fixed, Variable, or Dynamic: What's the Difference?

These three terms are NOT interchangeable. With a fixed contract, you pay the same price per kWh all year, no matter when you use electricity. With a variable contract, the price is revised periodically (monthly or quarterly) based on wholesale market averages. With a dynamic contract, the price follows the day-ahead wholesale price hour by hour: it changes every hour, and can be higher or lower than a fixed rate depending on the moment.

Is a Dynamic Electricity Tariff Worth It for You?

If you mostly use electricity during the day, when the grid carries a lot of solar power, a dynamic contract can work in your favour. If you mostly use it in the evening peak hours, you'll see the opposite. Without looking at your own quarter-hourly usage data, any answer is a guess — not a calculation.

Compare Your Current Contract Against Real Dynamic Offers Using Your Mijn Fluvius Data

  • You upload your quarter-hourly usage file, free to download via Mijn Fluvius.
  • You enter your current contract (fixed, variable, or dynamic).
  • We recalculate your own usage against your current contract AND against supplier alternatives — including dynamic products, using real market prices.
  • You see the difference in euros per year, without us naming a "winner" ourselves — the numbers speak for themselves.
This tool currently works for Fluvius customers (Flanders). Our calculations run on the public V-test data from VREG, the Flemish energy regulator. Wallonia (CWaPE) and Brussels (BRUGEL) run their own regulators and data — we don't pull from those yet.

What You Need

Just your Fluvius quarter-hourly usage file (CSV) and the basic details of your current contract, which you'll find on your annual statement or in your current supplier's online customer portal.