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In Smart Delta Resources energy and raw material-intensive companies in the Flemish-Dutch Scheldt Delta region have joined forces in a unique, cross-border collaboration between industry, ports, knowledge institutions, grid operators and governments.

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CO₂ capture at Knippegroen: ENGIE investigates feasibility in industrial practice

19 December, 2025
CCUS
Electrification
Circularity
Cooperation

ENGIE is testing a demonstration plant for CO₂ capture (CCS) at the Knippegroen power station in the port of Ghent. The aim is to determine whether it is technically and economically feasible to extract CO₂ directly from industrial flue gases.

Knippegroen DFDS

Start of construction of Baekeland high-voltage substation: new backbone for the Belgian electricity grid

17 December, 2025
Electrification
Cooperation

On Monday 15 December 2025, construction of the new Baekeland high-voltage substation in Ghent officially commenced. The 380/150 kV substation along the R4-East will be an important link in Belgium's electricity supply, playing a crucial role for the port and surrounding industry.

Baekeland spadesteek Elia Smart Delta Resources

New waste chair launched on recycling of plastic waste

11 December, 2025
Circularity
Cooperation

The new Chair in Dissolution Recycling of Plastic Waste has been officially launched at Ghent University. Funded by the Province of Zeeland and PSLoop, the chair brings together science, industry, and policy to develop innovative solutions for plastic waste and build circular value chains.

leerstoel UGent
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Smart Delta Resources is a unique, cross-border collaboration of industry, port, governments, energy and network companies and knowledge institutions in the Flemish-Dutch Scheldt Delta region. This collaboration offers our partners multiple advantages.

Cross-border, project-driven organisation

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Bundled forces in funding and public affairs

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Large community of leading industrial players, governments and knowledge institutes

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