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The Netherlands performs poorly when it comes to meeting the targets as agreed upon in the EU Directive Renewable Energy for 2020. In fact, only France does worse. The target set for the Netherlands...

The share of renewable energy in total energy consumption was 4.4% in 2012, almost the same as in 2011 (4.3%).

Air pollution, emissions and emission factors of mobile sources Road traffic, inland shipping, railways, aviation, navigation, machinery.

Total electricity production in the Netherlands amounted to 113 billion kWh in 2011. This is 4 percent less than in the previous year. In the four preceding years, electricity production had risen...

Around 9 percent of all materials entering the Dutch economy are recycled.

What is the scale of greenhouse gas emissions?

In 2017, nearly 60 percent of renewable electricity production originated from wind power, 13 percent from solar power.

Between 2010 and 2016, the per capita raw material footprint (or per capita raw material consumption, RMC) fell from 11.2 tonnes to 8.1 tonnes.

Dutch consumption of renewable energy levelled off in 2007.

Facts at a glance about the circular economy in the Netherlands.

Extraction, import and export materials Material flows to and from the Dutch economy

Electricity production in the Netherlands amounted to 118 billion KWh in 2010. This is 4 percent more than in 2009.

The share of renewable energy in total energy consumption increased from 3.8 percent in 2010 to 4.2 percent in 2011. The reason for the increase is twofold: the consumption of renewable energy...

Energy commodities reported into petajoules (PJ) and physical units by energy consumers and balance sheet items.

In 2008, almost the entire volume of sludge from the Dutch sewerage system was incinerated.

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

According to figures released by Statistics Netherlands, renewable energy constituted 5.6 percent of total Dutch energy consumption in 2014. This is substantially more than the 4.8 percent of 2013...

After a 3-year period of decline, the production of electrical energy grew by 2 percent last year to 103 billion kWh. The increase is predominantly due to a higher foreign demand.

Last year, 4.5 percent of total Dutch energy consumption was generated by means of renewable energy sources, i.e. the same as in 2012.