{"title":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"093","label":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 44 supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy through award notices on TED; the 32 of them that state a value (72.7%) add up to €205 million. Belgium imported €2.04 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2716, 2844 and 2612; all buyers, not only public ones), up 2.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 58 companies have won 205 public supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in Belgium, in 93 award notices from 64 public buyers.","83.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 47.8% of all awards.","29.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":205,"awardNotices":93,"winningCompanies":58,"publicBuyers":64,"awardsWithValue":122,"awardedValueEur":1121748217,"localAwards":172,"foreignAwards":33,"top5Share":0.47804878048780486,"singleBidAwards":37,"awardsWithKnownBids":125,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":9,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":182852738},{"year":2024,"awards":94,"awardNotices":32,"awardsWithValue":42,"awardedValueEur":443352148},{"year":2025,"awards":44,"awardNotices":30,"awardsWithValue":32,"awardedValueEur":204650885},{"year":2026,"awards":58,"awardNotices":27,"awardsWithValue":43,"awardedValueEur":290892446}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2716","label":"Electrical energy"},{"hs4":"2844","label":"Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes, incl. their fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes, and their compounds"},{"hs4":"2612","label":"Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1996392224},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1793928575},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2041829771}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Belgium — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €99.6 billion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":99553000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.5,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}