East Flanders
A few months before the First World War broke out, the Langerbrugge power station started producing electricity 'to provide the surrounding municipalities with electric light'.
Diesel power station
In 1967, Ghent's municipal electric power plant was expanded with a brand-new building that housed three giant diesel engines.
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No fewer than 712 steam engines rolled off the production line at the Carels Frères construction workshop (later ACEC) in the Belgian town of Ghent between 1874 and 1914.
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