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The political party Groen (the Flemish green party) claims that Belgium is way behind when it comes to green energy. They also say our energy bill is ranked the third most expensive in Europe. Groen mentions this claim on both Facebook and in an article on their website. The party repeats the claim multiple times, but it does not reveal a source. Even though Groen uses the claim for articles on both their website and their Facebook page, they don’t say where this information comes from. After contacting them, they reacted that they used the data from Eurostat to back up their claim. Countries all over the world switch to renewable energy, Belgium stays behind The first part of the claim was the hardest to research. Not a lot of research or data can be found comparing Belgium globally on renewable energy sources. We combined two statistics of Statista, one on global renewable energy and one on the Belgian evolution on renewable energy. From this, we gather that in 9 years, Belgium has grown from 3,6% to 15,8%, while globally we see growth from 5,2% to 11%. It means that Belgium does keep up globally; it even exceeds the average global increase. An expert on the topic, Johan Albrecht, professor of energy at the University of Gent, and an economist explains what Groen might mean with the first part of their claim. Well
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