CD&V wants small scale nuclear reactors and more renewable energy | internal

CD&V notes that more than 90 percent of the Flemish roof surface suitable for solar energy is unused today. “The current Flemish ambition for solar energy should and could be higher,” says Flemish MP Ruprecht Bothuen, who wants to double the growth of solar panels within five years. “Flemish financing for cities and municipalities should depend in part on renewable energy production in their territories.”

More opportunities to share energy should also be given. “In this way, we make the transition possible for apartment dwellers, for example. By 2025 at the latest, we will ensure that gas and electricity prices are always so different that heating with a heat pump is cheaper,” she says.

In the long term, CD&V sees great benefit in developing small nuclear power plants with the latest nuclear technology. The goal should be to build such a pilot SMR by 2040 and to be able to deploy it on a larger scale in 2045 to 7 operational SMRs in our country. To do this, the current law on nuclear egress must be amended.

In the short term, the party reiterates its proposal to immediately extend the two smaller nuclear power plants, Doel 4 and Tihange 3, for 20 years instead of 10. “With CD & V, we want a truly European nuclear strategy that accelerates investments in the latest reactors, pools knowledge and harmonizes legislation,” says Sami Mahdi, the party’s president.

“We believe in the essential role of nuclear energy in the energy mix in the future, and therefore also in the revival of nuclear energy in the short and long term. Europe can and should play an important role in this. But we can also take a lot of steps in Flanders and Belgium such as rapid clarity around the plants We have the nuclear energy we have,” said Lynn Derek MP.