30 september 2020
16:39
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Entrepreneur Luc Tack has advanced plans with his chemical company Tessenderlo to build a second gas-fired power station. The project must supply power when the nuclear power plants close in 2025.
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The listed chemical company Tessenderlo Group
presents itself as a new candidate to build a gas-fired power plant. The company has requested an environmental impact report for the construction of a second large gas-fired power plant on the site in Tessenderlo. It wants to compete for the subsidies that are in the making for the construction of new capacity. Tessenderlo already has one with T-Power gas power plant of 425 megawatts to provide for its own power needs. Due to the planned closure of the nuclear power plants, Tessenderlo sees potential on the same site to build a second much larger gas power plant of 900 megawatts, almost the equivalent of a large nuclear power plant.
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Entrepreneur Luc Tack, who owns a majority of the voting rights in Tessenderlo, is increasingly emerging as a player in the Belgian energy market. This is not surprising. The company already founded the subsidiary Tessenderlo Development Services last year with the intention develop energy projects at its various sites.
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We will only build this new power plant if we can realize a profitable project at an acceptable risk.