Belgium has 69 power plants in this atlas, with 13,405 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is DOEL 4 (2,910 MW, nuclear; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are gas, wind and hydro. Grid operators listed here include Elia. Electricity is regulated by CREG, VREG and CWaPE. Renewables supplied 35.2% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Belgium
Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail
Regulation is split: CREG oversees transmission and wholesale prices, while each region's regulator oversees local networks and retail. Electricity is traded on day-ahead and intraday exchanges coupled across the EU, so prices are set by the whole European market. Households can switch supplier.
Elia owns and operates the high-voltage grid; distribution belongs to regional operators such as Fluvius (Flanders), ORES and RESA (Wallonia) and Sibelga (Brussels).
Part of the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the largest interconnected grid in the world by customers, coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.
What does “Liberalised market” mean?
Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Belgium spans a short North Sea coast, lowland plains and the wooded uplands of the Ardennes. Its compact geography places coastal, river and industrial energy sites close together.
Capital
Brussels
Languages
Dutch, French, German
Major cities
Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent
Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 69 records for Belgium. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
69 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 69 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
