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There is no installed geothermal generating capacity as for December 2009.

 

 

 

No country update report was received for Belgium, thus data from WGC 2000 and WGC2005 will be utilized along with some updated material on geothermal heat pumps (Lund et al., 2005; EurObserv’ER, 2009). Since, only an abstract was submitted in 2005 and data from WGC2000 was used at that time (Berckmans and Vandenberghe, 1998). Geothermal energy used in the country is focused on shallow applications with the geothermal heat pump market growing significantly over the past few years, with the open-loop type being the most common. Most applications are in the eastern provinces. Aquifer thermal energy storage is also being utilized in a number of locations.

The total estimated installed capacity and use is:

space heating 2.1 MWt and 53.8 TJ/yr;
greenhouse heating 0.9 MWt and 22.1 TJ/yr;
aquaculture 0.3 MWt and10.1 TJ/yr;
agricultural drying 0.5 MWt and 13.1 TJ/yr;
swimming pool 0.1 MWt and 8.1 TJ/yr.

The estimated geothermal heat pumps based on 2008 data is 9,500 units (up from 5,000 in 2005), with an installed capacity of 114.0 MWt. Using 1,500 full load heating hours per year and a 3.5 COP in the heating mode, the energy use is estimated at 439.77 TJ/yr.

Thus, the total capacity and use in the country is 117.90 MWt and 546.97 TJ/yr.
 

Taken from the paper by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd: "Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2010 Worldwide Review"; published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010