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Power plants in Belgium

69 power-plant records · 13,405 MW reported capacity

  • Gas 29%
  • Wind 17%
  • Hydro 16%
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Belgium at a glance

Power-plant records
69
Reported capacity
13,405 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
35.2%
Most records
Gas, Wind
Grid operator
Elia
Capital
Brussels

Largest listed power plants

  1. 1DOEL 42,910 MW
  2. 2TIHANGE 32,054 MW
  3. 3COO1,164 MW
  4. 4TIHANGE 1N962 MW
  5. 5LANGERLO 1470 MW
  6. 6DROGENBOS TGV465 MW
  7. 7HERDERSBRUG STEG465 MW
  8. 8Amercoeur 1 R TGV451 MW
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Counts records, not generation share · coverage & dates

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.

How electricity works 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.

  1. GenerationCompeting generators
  2. TransmissionIndependent grid operator
  3. DistributionRegulated local networks
  4. CustomersYou choose a supplier

Who regulates

  • CREGEnergy regulator · Federal
  • VREGEnergy regulator · Flanders
  • CWaPEEnergy regulator · Wallonia
  • BrugelEnergy regulator · Brussels

Who controls the grid

Elia owns and operates the high-voltage grid; distribution belongs to regional operators such as Fluvius (Flanders), ORES and RESA (Wallonia) and Sibelga (Brussels).

Markets & power exchanges

Regional grid

  • ENTSO-E · Continental European gridRegional grid

    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.

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ELECTRICITY IN 2024

How Belgium generates electricity

Electricity generated76 TWh
Renewable share35.2%
Low-carbon share76.4%
Carbon intensity127 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro0.55 TWh
Wind14.1 TWh
Solar8.6 TWh
Bioenergy3.6 TWh
Other renewables0 TWh
Nuclear31.3 TWh
Coal0 TWh
Gas14.2 TWh
Other fossil3.8 TWh

Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

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Geography and data notes

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.

69 lack an owner/operator; 53 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
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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.

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