Injecting electricity into the Brussels grid: injection tariff vs. prosumer tariff

I always thought if you produce your own energy, you would need to upgrade to a bi-directional electric meter. The linked article gives interesting insight -- that consumers need not switch to a bi-directional meter.

IIUC, the figures are like this:

bi-directional meter: you receive ⅓ the price of energy you inject as the cost for consuming. (wtf? That seems terrible)

analog meter: your injection simply makes the old analog meter run in reverse. So I think you must get equal credit for energy you supply. But you must pay a flat €50/year (correction: €50 per kW per year) extra tax for that privilege.

Both scenarios seem a bit far from fair, but it seems like people with modern digital bi-directional meters really get screwed. Or am I missing something?

update: sorry, I thought I read flat €50/yr. It’s €50 per kW per year. So if you inject 1500 kWh/year, you pay €75,000? Can’t be. What’s wrong with my calculation here? Billing deals with kW hours, and the tax is based simply on kW (capacity). I’m not sure what a typical kW would be.

update 2: Actually there is no prosumer tariff in Brussels:

https://soltis.be/en/faq/what-is-the-prosumer-rate/

That makes it easy. So IIUC you get equal compensation for electricity injection in Brussels if you have an analog meter.

update 3: Heard a rumor that analog meters are being replaced with digital ones in all of Belgium eventually. Brussels is slow but it will happen. And when it does, people with the new digital meters will get screwed if they are injecting power into the grid. I’m somewhat wondering if Brussels is deliberately slow. Maybe they are waiting for more people to be enticed to install solar panels before they do the conversion.

Bait and switch.

update 4: some sources say digital meters will replace analog meters soon in Brussels. There is nothing good about this for consumers. Why people should resist this change:

• (unfairness) Digital meters will enable the electricity supplier to compensate consumers less for injection than they charge for consumption. Even though they are not using unfair pricing yet, the digital meter paves the way to make unfair pricing possible.
• (reduced availability) Digital meters enable Sibelga to remotely cut off the power to your house at the flip of a switch. People behind on their bills will lose power more easily.
• (surveillance?) I’m speculating here, but once the meter is digital it might enable the energy supplier to monitor the meter in realtime. This would enable them to (e.g.) know when someone is home, how many people, etc.

I see no advantages for the consumer w.r.t. digital meters. Maybe you won’t need to periodically let someone enter the house to read the meter anymore (not sure), but in any case it’s a bad trade-off.