Belgium

TABLE 3. 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 Exajoule (EJ) 0 0 0 0 <0.1 <0.1

TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS (IN EJ)

Average annual
growth rate (%)
1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2014* 2000 to 2014*
Energy consumption**
- Total 2.04 2.07 2.46 2.48 2.53 2.21 -0.76
-Solids*** 0.52 0.44 0.33 0.21 0.15 0.14 -5.94
- Liquids 0.90 0.67 0.91 0.98 0.99 0.94 +0.23
- Gases 0.41 0.38 0.62 0.69 0.71 0.53 -1.11
- Nuclear 0.14 0.47 0.53 0.52 0.52 0.37 -2.53
- Hydro <0,01 <0,01 <0,01 <0,01 <0,01 <0,01 -
- Other
Renewables		 0.07 0.11 0.07 0.08 0.15 0.24 +9.20
Energy production
- Total 0.30 0.45 0.57 0.57 0.65 0.52 -0.65
- Solids*** 0.18 0.04 0.01 <0.01 0.00 0.00 -
- Liquids 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -
- Gases <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 -
- Nuclear 0.12 0.40 0.53 0.52 0.52 0.37 -2.53
- Hydro <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 -
- Other
Renewables		 0.00 0.01 0.04 0.05 0.13 0.16 +10.41
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total 1.81 1.71 2.13 2.26 2.28 1.99 -0.48

TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average annual growth rate (%)
1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2014* 2000 to 2014*
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe) (1)
- Thermal 8.21 7.24 8.55 8.71 9.15 8.61 +0.05
- Hydro 1.13 1.40 1.41 1.41 1.43 1.43 +0.10
- Nuclear 1.67 5.50 5.71 5.80 5.93 5.93 +0.27
- Wind 0.00 <0.01 0.01 0.17 0.91 1.93 -
- Geothermal 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -
- other renewable 0.00 0.00 0.00 <0.01 0.90 3.03 -
- Total 11.01 14.14 15.69 16.10 18.32 20.92 +2.08
Electricity production (TWh) (2)
- Thermal 40.26 27.30 34.14 37.33 43.40 29.58 -1.02
- Hydro 0.83 0.90 1.70 1.60 1.67 1.51 -0.84
- Nuclear 12.55 42.72 48.16 47.60 47.94 33.70 -2.52
- Wind 0.00 < 0.01 < 0.01 0.23 1.29 4.61 -
- Geothermal 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -
- other renewable 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.27 0.82 3.28 -
- Total (3) 53.64 70.92 84.01 87.03 95.12 72.69 -1.03
Total Electricity consumption (TWh) (4) 51.02 67.56 77.77 80.87 85.27 81.99 +0.38

TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2014*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 206.8 206.2 240.4 237.7 233.22 198.07
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) 5 448.8 7 109.1 8 205.1 8330.9 7 926.1 7 352.7
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 64.37 56.74 53.06 54.97 54.35 49.89
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 23.40 60.24 57.33 54.47 50.40 46.37
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) 88.73 82.61 86.59 91.13 90.38 90.00

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2015

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
2015
DOEL-1 PWR 433 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1969-07-01 1974-07-18 1974-08-28 1975-02-15 97.6
DOEL-2 PWR 433 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1971-09-01 1975-08-04 1975-08-21 1975-12-01 84.0
DOEL-3 PWR 1006 Operational ELECTRAB FRAMACEC 1975-01-01 1982-06-14 1982-06-23 1982-10-01 0.7
DOEL-4 PWR 1033 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1978-12-01 1985-03-31 1985-04-08 1985-07-01 85.9
TIHANGE-1 PWR 962 Operational ELECTRAB ACLF 1970-06-01 1975-02-21 1975-03-07 1975-10-01 69.8
TIHANGE-2 PWR 1008 Operational ELECTRAB FRAMACEC 1976-04-01 1982-10-05 1982-10-13 1983-06-01 4.3
TIHANGE-3 PWR 1038 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1978-11-01 1985-06-05 1985-06-15 1985-09-01 82.4
BR-3 PWR 10 Permanent Shutdown CEN/SCK WH 1957-11-01 1962-08-29 1962-10-10 1962-10-10 1987-06-30
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 7 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.