Belgium

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Estimated available energy sources
Fossil fuels Nuclear Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
renewable
Total amount in specific units* 0 0 0 0 <0.1 <0.1
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) 0 0 0 0 <0.1 <0.1

TABLE 2. ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Final Energy consumption [PJ] 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 Compound
annual growth
rate 2000–2019 (%)
Total 1 808 1 796 1 804 1 753 1 764 -0.13
Coal, Lignate and Peat 177 116 89 94 97 -3.12
Oil 885 908 863 857 799 -0.54
Natural gas 424 434 456 412 471 0.55
Bioenergy and Waste 22 32 69 74 87 7.50
Electricity 279 288 299 294 293 0.26
Heat 21 18 27 22 18 -0.81

TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION

Electricity production (GWh) 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 Compound
annual growth
rate 2000–2019 (%)
Total 84 012 86 759 94 934 69 370 93 350 0.56
Coal, Lignate and Peat 16 030 10 493 5 955 4 111 2 531 -9.26
Oil 797 1 740 406 209 71 -11.95
Natural gas 15 977 22 849 31 420 22 027 25 857 2.57
Bioenergy and Waste 1 336 2 250 5 689 6 861 6 513 8.69
Hydro 1 699 1 604 1 668 1 418 1 179 -1.90
Nuclear 48 157 47 595 47 944 26 103 43 757 -0.50
Wind 16 227 1 292 5 574 9 486 39.94
Solar 0 1 560 3 056 3 947
Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 11 8

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 206.80 206.20 243.04 237.13 237.52 201.88 207.95
Electricity consumption per capita (kW?h/capita) 5 448.80 7 109.10 7 795.23 8 006.62 7 958.07 7 415.79 7 322.71
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 64.37 56.74 53.91 54.34 51.88 55.50 50.55
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 23.40 60.24 57.32 54.69 50.00 37.38 46.43
Ratio of external dependency (%) ** 88.73 82.61 85.19 90.28 87.13 92.35 87.75

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2020

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]		 Status Operator Reactor
Supplier		 Construction
Date		 First
Criticality
Date		 First Grid
Date		 Commercial
Date		 Shutdown
Date		 UCF
for
2020
DOEL-1 PWR 445 Operational EBL+EDF ACECOWEN 7/1/1969 7/18/1974 8/28/1974 2/15/1975 55.8
DOEL-2 PWR 445 Operational EBL+EDF ACECOWEN 9/1/1971 8/4/1975 8/21/1975 12/1/1975 56.7
DOEL-3 PWR 1006 Operational EBL+EDF FRAMACEC 1/1/1975 6/14/1982 6/23/1982 10/1/1982 87.2
DOEL-4 PWR 1038 Operational EBL+EDF ACECOWEN 12/1/1978 3/31/1985 4/8/1985 7/1/1985 80.6
TIHANGE-1 PWR 962 Operational EBL ACLF 6/1/1970 2/21/1975 3/7/1975 10/1/1975 3.6
TIHANGE-2 PWR 1008 Operational EBL FRAMACEC 4/1/1976 10/5/1982 10/13/1982 6/1/1983 83.9
TIHANGE-3 PWR 1038 Operational EBL ACECOWEN 11/1/1978 6/5/1985 6/15/1985 9/1/1985 64.1
BR-3 PWR 10 Permanent Shutdown CEN/SCK WH 11/1/1957 8/29/1962 10/10/1962 10/10/1962 6/30/1987
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.

TABLE 6. INTENDED NUCLEAR PHASE-OUT TIMETABLE

Reactor Net capacity Start of commercial operation Offline
Doel 1 433.0 MW(e) 15 February 1975 15 February 2025
Doel 2 433.0 MW(e) 1 December 1975 1 December 2025
Doel 3 1 006.0 MW(e) 1 October 1982 1 October 2022
Doel 4 1 033.0 MW(e) 1 July 1985 1 July 2025
Tihange 1 962.0 MW(e) 1 October 1975 1 October 2025
Tihange 2 1 008.0 MW(e) 1 February 1983 1 February 2023
Tihange 3 1 038.0 MW(e) 1 September 1985 1 September 2025