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BELGIUM ENERGY TRANSITION
In recent years, the security of projects. It is also intended for
electricity supply has been a measures to maintain and / or
growing concern for Belgium. This develop and / or search for a system
concern can be explained by a to ensure the security of supply
number of factors, including aging and the balance of the network,
production infrastructure, national in particular with regard to the
energy policy choices, and increased production and storage of energy,
electricity production from renewable as well as demand management.
energy sources and the intermittent A technology neutral approach is
nature of this production. applied in this regard.
Also, my goal as Minister of Energy, Offshore wind
Environment and Sustainable With the dual objective of meeting
Development has been to the nuclear exit schedule and
permanently anchor Belgium in the decarbonising our economy, the
energy transition. To this end, I have federal government has continued to
concluded with the regional entities expand our wind capacity in
the Inter-federal Energy Pact, which the North Sea. We want to continue
devotes a central place to renewable the development of offshore wind
energies and policies, as well as turbines in the North Sea until its
mobility, which will contribute to the installed capacity reaches 4GW
sustainable reduction of Belgium's by 2030. Offshore wind power
greenhouse gas emissions. . currently accounts for 5% of
Belgium's total electricity demand.
This Pact has also found wide It will reach 10% by 2020. By
expression in the National Energy- 2030, offshore wind generation will
Climate Plan (NECP) that Belgium account for 20% of total electricity
has presented to the European demand.
Commission. Technology and
innovation are obviously central to CRM or Capacity Remuneration
this Pact and in this legislature we Mechanism
have put in place three fundamental In response to the need for new
levers linking transition and innovative generation capacity due to the
technologies. nuclear phase-out, I passed a bill in
Parliament creating a technology-
The transition fund neutral capacity compensation
This fund is intended for measures mechanism that will be eligible
to encourage and support research for gas, storage and Demand
and development in innovative Management. l
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