Selected highlights from the energy landscape.
On 16/01/2026, 100TWh and 5 other parties, including the municipality of Huy and the ecomodernists of WePlanet, have issued a complaint against the demolition permit for the Tihange 1 and 2 cooling towers.
This permit had been granted to Engie on 30/12/2025 by the Walloon Region, but 100TWh found it completely stupid to destroy those assets because both reactors have to be restarted as soon as possible.
According to reliable sources, several companies are interested in taking over the closed nuclear power plants. But someone would have to convince – or oblige – Engie to hand over its power plants to the best candidate.
100TWh believes that a negotiation should take place at a very high level between the Government, Engie and those interested companies.
The gradual closure of our nuclear power plants has deeply weakened our energy security and, consequently, our economy.
The attached graphs are clear, we are now increasingly dependent on electricity imports from abroad (23% in 2025). According to 100TWh's simulations, the cost of loosing those 4 GW nuclear will be around 3 billion € per year. And the future looks even darker.
Discover the last month's highlighting key events related to energy and the activities of the 100TWh association.
On 28/01/2026, Spain was again at risk of blackout, due to its excess in variable renewable energy, and the absence of constraints in their utilisation.
In our 100TWh vision, VRE's has to become dispatchable by complementary measures, for example by providing battery backup for each installed windmill. (read more)
An article shows once again that Variable renewables are able to produce as much electricity as a nuclear park, but they will never be able to produce the instant power needed by the electricity grid.
Therefore they will always need complementary sources which has to be integrated in their costs. The European merit order is wrong because it doesn’t take the cost of those complementary sources into account. (read more)
Germany recognises the failure of its energy transition, called energiewende.
The country orders the construction of 12 GW gas-fired power plants. (read more)
An article of 21news shows the Belgian electricity's production deficit of 23% (14 TWh/60 TWh) resulting from the closure of 3 nuclear reactors, which were producing electricity at unbeatable prices.
So we have a production deficit and we're importing electricity at a higher cost than that produced by these 3 reactors.
One has to be rich to take costly decisions out of ideology and then console yourself by saying that the imports were made at prices considered ‘relatively low’, with Belgian daily prices remaining lower than those observed in Germany. (read more)
In her article, Dinara Ermakova, shows that the shutdown of the 54 nuclear plants in Japan cost the country $450 billion. But it also generated high energy costs and unmet climate goals.
A good lesson to be learned ! (read more)
Staffan Reveman reports on the Cross border electricity trading 2025 in TWh.
We see that Belgium has imported 14 TWh in 2025. (read more)
In 2026, the VNU (Versement Nucléaire Universel) has been put in place to allow the French citizens to directly benefit from the cheap nuclear production by reducing their energy bill !
While other countries, like Germany or Belgium, compensate the high electricity prices for their industries by taxing their citizens. (read more)