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 exajoule (EJ) 0 0 0 0 <0.1 <0.1

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

Average annual
growth rate (%)
1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015* 2000 to 2015*
Energy consumption [EJ]**
- Total 2.04 2.01 2.43 2.44 2.52 2.23 -0.54
-Solids*** 0.52 0.44 0.34 0.22 0.16 0.13 -5.58
- Liquids 0.90 0.74 0.95 0.99 0.98 0.96 +0.07
- Gases 0.41 0.34 0.56 0.62 0.70 0.58 +0.27
- Nuclear 0.14 0.47 0.53 0.52 0.52 0.28 -3.76
- Hydro <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 -
- Other renewables 0.07 0.03 0.05 0.07 0.15 0.18 +9.03
Energy production
- Total 0.30 0.45 0.57 0.58 0.65 .0.45 -1.5
- Solids*** 0.18 0.04 0.01 <0.01 <0.01. <0.01.
- 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 .0.28 -3.76
- Hydro <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01
- Other renewables 0.00 0.01 0.04 0.06 0.13 0.16 +10.41
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total 1.81 1.71 2.12 2.25 2.26 .2.13 +0.02

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015* Average annual
growth rate (%)
2000 to 2015*
Capacity of electrical plants
(GWe)1
G/N
- Thermal N 8.21 7.24 8.55 8.71 9.52 8.51 -0.03
- Hydro N 1.13 1.40 1.41 1.41 1.43 1.42 +0.04
- Nuclear N 1.67 5.50 5.71 5.80 5.93 5.91 +0.22
- Wind N 0.00 <0.01 0.01 0.17 0.91 2.18
- Geothermal N 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
- other renewable N 0.00 0.00 0.00 <0.01 0.90 3.12
- Total N 11.01 14.14 15.69 16.10 18.69 21.15 +1.88
Electricity production
(TWh)2
G/N
- Thermal G 40.26 27.30 34.14 37.33 43.47 34.04 -0.02
- Hydro G 0.83 0.90 1.70 1.60 1.67 1.42 -1.12
- Nuclear G 12.55 42.72 48.16 47.60 47.94 26.10 -3.76
- Wind G 0.00 <0.01 <0.01 0.23 1.29 5.57
- Geothermal G 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
- other renewable G 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.27 0.82 3.52
- Total** G 53.64 70.92 84.01 87.03 95.19 70.65 -1.08
Total electricity consumption
(TWh)3
51.02 67.56 79.82 83.64 85.92 83.14 +0.26

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 206.8 206.2 240.4 237.7 233.22 198.97
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) 5 448.8 7 109.1 8 205.1 8 330.9 7 926.1 7 417.6
Electricity production / Energy production (%) 64.37 56.74 53.06 54.97 54.35 56.85
Nuclear /
total electricity (%)
23.40 60.24 57.33 54.47 50.40 36.95
Ratio of external dependency (%)** 88.73 82.61 86.59 91.13 90.38 95.39

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2016

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
2016
DOEL-1 PWR 433 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1969-07-01 1974-07-18 1974-08-28 1975-02-15 79.6
DOEL-2 PWR 433 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1971-09-01 1975-08-04 1975-08-21 1975-12-01 79.9
DOEL-3 PWR 1006 Operational ELECTRAB FRAMACEC 1975-01-01 1982-06-14 1982-06-23 1982-10-01 82.4
DOEL-4 PWR 1038 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1978-12-01 1985-03-31 1985-04-08 1985-07-01 98.0
TIHANGE-1 PWR 962 Operational ELECTRAB ACLF 1970-06-01 1975-02-21 1975-03-07 1975-10-01 33.8
TIHANGE-2 PWR 1008 Operational ELECTRAB FRAMACEC 1976-04-01 1982-10-05 1982-10-13 1983-06-01 96.4
TIHANGE-3 PWR 1038 Operational ELECTRAB ACECOWEN 1978-11-01 1985-06-05 1985-06-15 1985-09-01 86.2
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.