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In 2009, generation of renewable electricity has risen to nearly 9 percent of total domestic electricity consumption. The objective of the Dutch government was to raise the share of renewable energy...

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

In the first three quarters of 2008, decentralised generation of electricity increased by 14 percent relative to the same period one year previously.

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 January 2007, inflation in the Netherlands was 1.4 percent. The rate was higher than in December, when prices were 1.1 percent up on one year previously, as the consumer price index.