5. Outcome

With the installed cooling capacity, the average efficiency, the number of cooling degree days and the formulas in the Annex to the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/759, the amount of renewable cooling in 2023 can be calculated. The number of equivalent full-load hours at 147 cooling degree days is 221 hours for residential and 547 hours for non-residential buildings. That results in 1,362 gigawatt hours of cooling energy supplied in the residential sector and 5,204 gigawatt hours in the non-residential sector. The proportion of cooling that counts as renewable depends on the average SPF_p and is 30.1 percent in residential and 23.2 percent in non-residential buildings. This results in a total of 1,618 gigawatt hours, or 5.8 petajoules of renewable cooling in the Netherlands in 2023, according to RED definitions. For comparison, the total amount of renewable energy in the Netherlands was 312 petajoules in 2023.