Publi-T and Fluxys SA launch NextGrid Holding SA

Brussels, 10 January 2025 – Today, Publi-T and Fluxys SA are pleased to announce the incorporation of NextGrid Holding SA.

As previously communicated, this new subsidiary is intended to hold in the future the shares that Publi-T owns in the Elia Group, and to participate in future capital increases.

Under this new structure, Publi-T will continue to serve as the reference shareholder of Elia Group, while Fluxys SA will join as a minority investor.

Press contact

Fluxys Press team: press@fluxys.com

Publi-T Press team: info@publi-t.be

info@nextgridholding.be

About Publi-T

Since 2001, Publi-T is the reference shareholder of the Elia Group (44.79%), which owns Elia Transmission Belgium, the Belgian electricity transmission system operator, and 50Hertz, one of the four electricity transmission system operators in Germany. Publi-T is a holding company which brings together the interests of the 3 regions in this strategic sector for industrial consumers and citizens.

https://publi-t.be

About Fluxys

Headquartered in Belgium, Fluxys is a fully independent infrastructure group with 1,300 employees active in gas transmission & storage and liquefied natural gas terminalling. Through its associated companies across the world, Fluxys operates 28,000 kilometres of pipeline and liquefied natural gas terminals totalling a yearly regasification capacity of 473 TWh. Among Fluxys’ subsidiaries is Euronext listed Fluxys Belgium, owner and operator of the infrastructure for gas transmission & storage and liquefied natural gas terminalling in Belgium.

As a purpose-led company, Fluxys together with its stakeholders contributes to a better society by shaping a bright energy future. Building on the unique assets of its infrastructure and its commercial and technical expertise, Fluxys is committed to transporting hydrogen, biomethane or any other carbon-neutral energy carrier as well as CO₂, accommodating the capture, usage and storage of the latter.

www.fluxys.com

About NextGrid Holding

NextGrid Holding SA is the partnership of the Elia Group’s reference shareholder Publi-T and international industrial group Fluxys. The local anchoring of NextGrid Holding’s shareholders helps strengthen the strategic position of Belgium as an energy hub for North-Western Europe to the benefit of society and industry.