Belgium added 1.8GW of new solar capacity in 2023, pushing the country’s total operating solar portfolio to 9.9GW. Image: ENGIE
As was common last year in the global solar sector, 2023 proved to be a record-breaking year for Belgium’s solar industry. According to the Belgian energy association, Energie Commune, the country installed 1.8GW of new solar capacity last year, breaking the record for annual installations set in 2022 with 1.3GW of capacity and pushing the country’s total operating solar portfolio to 9.9GW.
While this figure hardly leads the European solar sector, record capacity growth is never a bad thing for the industry, and there is cause for optimism in the future for Belgium’s solar sector. According to trade body SolarPower Europe, Belgium installed around 500W of solar generation capacity per person in 2022, meeting the targets set out in its 2019 National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP). However, SolarPower Europe expects this per-capita capacity to jump to around 1,600W by the end of the decade.
(The above content is reproduced from pv-tech，By JP Casey）
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