Charleroi, La Ville Noire, a small town close to Bruxelles, symbolizes by itself the whole of Europe. The collapse of industrial manufacturing, the rising unemployment, the increasing immigration, the outbreak of micro-criminality. The regression of the social welfare, the lack of a shared identity.
The gas supply tubes run along the houses built near the steel factories of Charleroi.
In this gym many youngsters practise kick boxing.
Belgium reached the quarter-finals of the last World Cup.
Mr Etienne and his son have a Second World War armored tank in their garden near Mons.
A typical skyline in Montignies-sur-Sambre.
A man waiting fot his wife outside the supermarket.
The daily rations of drugs for the asylum's patients.
A woman in a psychiatric asylum and elderly home.
My cousin agreed to be photographed while having sex with a girl in his friend’s car.
Montigny-le-Tilleul, one of the richest neighborhoods of Charleroi.
This woman sodomizes men in her apartment.
Cedric in his garden in Marchienne au Pont.
Philippe in his beautiful house in Marchienne au Pont.
Working out in a playground in Montignies-sur-Sambre.
The husband of this couple was mowing the lawn.
Spontaneous vegetation eats an old quarry.
This old airplane, parked close to the Ring of Charleroi, houses a discoteque.
A car parking close to the train station; in the background one of artificial mountains, made by the coal mine waste that surround the city.
One of a thousand police officers of Charleroi.
Police officers charging the hooligans. In Charleroi the highest building is the police station which is 75m high.
Vadim, a painter who uses live models, creates a work inspired by an existing painting in his studio in Molenbeek.
Magali likes to be photographed by her husband on improvised sets.
J keeps his gun hidden in a box in the woods.
​CategoriesCategoriesEnglishGENERALTotalEnergies will invest 50 million euros in energy storage in Belgium3 April 2024
TotalEnergies will invest 50 million euros in energy storage in Belgium
After commissioning a battery park near its refinery in Antwerp
the French energy group will build a second one in Feluy
TotalEnergies began construction on a 25-megawatt battery park next to the oil refinery in Antwerp
With a storage capacity of 75 megawatt hours
it can store enough electricity to supply 10,000 families for a day
The group's next undertaking is a similar battery park near its petrochemical complex in Feluy
These two projects represent an investment of 50 million euros from TotalEnergies
which predicts project completion by the end of next year
They also put the company on the map as one of the larger players in the Belgian energy storage market
Other established energy companies such as Engie
Luminus and Storm have also announced ambitions to build large battery parks in Belgium
TotalEnergies has become the fourth-largest electricity supplier in Flanders
The group has a gas-fired power station in Marchienne-au-Pont (430 megawatts) and is a regular buyer of electricity from the Rentel offshore wind farm (309 megawatts)
It is also a major player in the electric charging market as the operator of 10,000 charging points
thanks in part to winning a major Flemish contract
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