Hydroelectric power plants
SOFICO manages several types of hydroelectric power plants. It licences out waterfalls on the waterway dams to install either fixed or removable power plants.
Currently, SOFICO is developing a programme to install removable hydroelectric power plants at 18 dams :
Haute-Meuse (9)
La Plante, Tailfer, Rivière, Hun, Houx, Dinant, Anseremme, Waulsort and Hastière
Basse Sambre (6)
Salzinnes, Auvelais, Roselies, Montignies-sur-Sambre, Marcinelle and Monceau-sur-Sambre
Ourthe (3)
Grosses-Battes, Fêchereux-Hony and Chanxhe
The power plants at Tailfer, Waulsort, Hastière, Hun, Houx, Marcinelle, Monceau-sur-Sambre, Grosses Battes, Anseremme and Chanxhe are now in operation. All these removable power plants could produce a total of 80,000 MWh per year, i.e. the same as the annual consumption of almost 23,000 households (based on a household’s annual consumption of 3,500 MWh), corresponding to nearly all the households in the town of Verviers.
SOFICO also has fixed hydroelectric power plants in Grands-Malades, Andenne, Ivoz-Ramet, Ampsin, Lixhe, Floriffoux, Mornimont and Monsin.
View the map showing the various operational hydroelectric plants by clicking here.
