page_title: Energy in Belgium
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Energy in Belgium / Primary energy consumption / Production
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: De steenkoolmijn van Winterslag, Genk, België
context_page_description: Energy in Belgium describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Belgium.
  It is governed by the energy policy of Belgium, which is split over several levels of government. For example, the regional level is responsible for awarding green certificates and the national level for anything concerning nuclear power. As a member country of the European Union Belgium also complies to its energy policy.
context_section_description: In recent years own production is about 25%. However this is mostly due to nuclear power generation, which by convention is counted as domestic production despite the uranium being imported. Renewable energy sources account for the rest of own production.
  Historically, up until 1992, coal was mined in Belgium. Since 2000 the quantities of Coalbed methane have been researched. These show that a concession of Limburgse Reconversie Maatschappij would contain 7 billion cubic meters of mine gas. In 2012 a deal was made with the Australian Dart Energy to investigate the practical extraction of this mine gas.
caption: Closed coal mine in Belgium
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