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 STATISTICS

Average annual
growth rate (%)
1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016* 2000–2016*
Energy consumption [EJ]**
- Total 2.04 2.01 2.43 2.44 2.52 2.23 2.37 -0.17
-Solids*** 0.52 0.44 0.34 0.22 0.16 0.13 0.12 -6.02
- Liquids 0.90 0.74 0.95 0.99 0.98 0.96 0.94 –0.05
- Gases 0.41 0.34 0.56 0.62 0.70 0.58 0.60 +0.42
- Nuclear 0.14 0.47 0.53 0.52 0.52 0.28 0.47 -0.63
- Hydro <0.01 <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 0.19 +9.47
Energy production
- Total 0.30 0.45 0.57 0.58 0.65 0.45 0.64 +0.70
- Solids*** 0.18 0.04 0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 -18.64
- Liquids 0.00 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 0.00 —
- Nuclear 0.12 0.40 0.53 0.52 0.52 0.28 0.47 -0.63
- Hydro <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 -1.35
- Other renewables 0.00 0.01 0.04 0.06 0.13 0.16 0.17 +9.43
Net import (Import–Export)
- Total 1.81 1.71 2.12 2.25 2.26 2.13 2.05 -0.22

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016* Average annual
growth rate (%)
2000–2016*
Capacity of electrical plants
(GW(e))1
G/N
- Thermal N 8.21 7.24 8.55 8.71 9.52 8.51 8.54 -0.01
- Hydro N 1.13 1.40 1.41 1.41 1.43 1.42 1.43 +0.09
- Nuclear N 1.67 5.50 5.71 5.80 5.93 5.91 5.91 +0.22
- Wind N 0.00 <0.01 0.01 0.17 0.91 2.18 2.37 —
- Geothermal N 0.00 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 3.30 —
- Total N 11.01 14.14 15.69 16.10 18.69 21.15 21.56 +2.01
Electricity production
(TWh)2
G/N
- Thermal G 40.26 27.30 34.14 37.33 43.47 33.25 31.47 -0.51
- Hydro G 0.83 0.90 1.70 1.60 1.67 1.42 1.49 -0.82
- Nuclear G 12.55 42.72 48.16 47.60 47.94 26.10 43.52 -0.63
- Wind G 0.00 <0.01 <0.01 0.23 1.29 5.57 5.44 —
- Geothermal G 0.00 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 3.60 —
- Total** G 53.64 70.92 84.01 87.03 95.19 69.85 85.52 +0.11
Total electricity consumption
(TWh)3
51.02 67.56 79.82 83.64 85.92 83.14 83.22 +0.26

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 206.80 206.20 240.40 237.70 233.22 198.97 209.01
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) 5 448.80 7 109.10 8 205.10 8 330.90 7 926.10 7 417.60 7 350.50
Electricity production / Energy production (%) 64.37 56.74 53.06 54.97 54.35 56.85 47.92
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 23.40 60.24 57.33 54.47 50.40 36.95 50.90
Ratio of external dependency (%)** 88.73 82.61 86.59 91.13 90.38 95.39 86.42

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2017

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
2017
DOEL-1 PWR 433 Operational EBL+EDF ACECOWEN 1969-07-01 1974-07-18 1974-08-28 1975-02-15 90.7
DOEL-2 PWR 433 Operational EBL+EDF ACECOWEN 1971-09-01 1975-08-04 1975-08-21 1975-12-01 91.5
DOEL-3 PWR 1006 Operational EBL+EDF FRAMACEC 1975-01-01 1982-06-14 1982-06-23 1982-10-01 72.1
DOEL-4 PWR 1038 Operational EBL+EDF ACECOWEN 1978-12-01 1985-03-31 1985-04-08 1985-07-01 83.8
TIHANGE-1 PWR 962 Operational EBL ACLF 1970-06-01 1975-02-21 1975-03-07 1975-10-01 41.2
TIHANGE-2 PWR 1008 Operational EBL FRAMACEC 1976-04-01 1982-10-05 1982-10-13 1983-06-01 80.4
TIHANGE-3 PWR 1038 Operational EBL ACECOWEN 1978-11-01 1985-06-05 1985-06-15 1985-09-01 99.6
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 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.