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In 2018, the Netherlands generated 8 percent more electricity from renewable sources than in the previous year. Electricity production from solar power increased in particular.

In 2021, total natural gas consumption in the Netherlands amounted to 40 billion cubic metres (m3), against 42 billion in the previous year.

In 2021, electricity production declined by 2.2 billion kWh year on year, to 117.9 billion kWh.

Last year greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were 5 percent up from 2014.

Greenhouse gas emissions stood at 189.3 bn CO2 equivalents in 2018, 2 percent lower than in 2017 and 15 percent down on 1990.

In Q2 2022, electricity production from coal increased by 40 percent year on year.

At the same time production at gas-fired electricity plants was at its lowest level of the last ten years.

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

In 2019, electricity production reached a record level of 121 billion kWh. This is a 6-percent increase on the previous year. The consumption of electricity remained more or less stable.

In Q3 2020, net electricity production was 3.8 billion kWh higher than in Q3 2019.

In 2017, total energy consumption in the Netherlands stood at 3,150 petajoules (PJ), more or less equal to consumption in 2016.

In 2020, net electricity production was 1.3 billion kWh higher than in 2019, reaching the highest level ever measured.

In 2017, greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands were 1 percent lower than in the previous year.

In 2016, greenhouse gas emissions were 1 percent up on 2015.

In 2018, the Caribbean Netherlands produced 136 million kWh of electricity. Of this amount, 45.1 million kWh came from renewable sources, equivalent to 33 percent of total electricity production.

In 2022, electricity production from renewable sources increased by 20 percent year on year.

Last year, 11.8 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable electricity were generated, i.e. 10.1 percent of total electricity consumption in the Netherlands and 0.4 percentage points below the level...

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.

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...

Greenhouse gas emissions were 6 percent higher last year than in 2009 and have risen for the first time in seven years. Greenhouse gas emissions are only 1 percent below the level of 1990, the base...