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In the period 1998-2008, the amount of electricity generated in the Netherlands increased from 92 to 108 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). The increase is mainly generated in combined heat and power...

In the period 1998–2008, total electricity generation in the Netherlands increased by 14 percent.

In 2007, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were reduced for the third consecutive year. The total emission volume amounted to 205 billion kg of CO2 equivalents, i.e. 4 percent below the...

In the first quarter of 2008 coal used to produce electricity cost 40 percent more than in the same period last year. Coal prices have been rising substantially since the second quarter of 2007.

In 2007, net imports of electricity plummeted by 18 percent. The upward trend observed in recent years was reversed.

The production of renewable electricity dropped from 6.5 percent of domestic electricity consumption in 2006 to 6.0 percent in 2007.

An average Dutch households paid 1.5 percent more for its gas and electricity in January 2008 than in the previous month.