FLIE: accelerator of innovations

The new cabinet published a policy framework in September 2025 in which direct electrification is the preferred route for making industry more sustainable. In the Industry Electrification Action Agenda, Minister Hermans states that for all low- and medium-temperature processes (up to around 500°C), electric energy will be chosen over conventional fuels or hydrogen where technically possible. The agenda stresses that electrification will take precedence over "indirect" routes and that investments should go mainly to heat pumps, electric heating and advanced electrification technologies in sectors such as the food, textile and paper industries. There is also recognition of potential bottlenecks: if not all conditions for full electrification are in place, the government sees hybrid solutions (combinations with fossil or renewable gases) as a "valuable interim solution".