Renewable energy; consumption by energy source, technology and application

This table contains figures on the gross final consumption (absolute and relative) of renewable energy. Renewable energy is energy from wind, hydropower, sun, soil, outdoor air heat and biomass. It is energy from natural processes that is constantly replenished. The data can be broken down by energy source/technology and by application (electricity, heat and transport). The gross final consumption of renewable energy as a percentage of total gross final consumption is used as a target for European and national renewable energy policies. It has been agreed that the Dutch share of renewable energy, in terms of gross final consumption, should be equal to 14 percent by 2020. This table focuses on the share of renewable energy according to the EU Renewable Energy Directive. Under this Directive, countries can apply an administrative transfer by purchasing renewable energy from countries that have consumed more renewable energy than the agreed target. For 2020, the Netherlands has applied such a thought by buying renewable energy from Denmark. This transmission has been made visible in this table as a separate energy source/technique and two totals are included; a total with and a total without statistical transmission. Data available from: 1990 Status of the figures: The figures in this table are final until 2019, further provisional for the reporting year 2020 and 2021. Changes as of June 2022: Further preliminary figures for 2021 added. As of reporting year 2021, new sustainability criteria for solid and gaseous biomass consumed in installations above a certain power limit apply under the EU Renewable Energy Directive (2018). Whether the biomass consumed in the Netherlands meets these new sustainability criteria is currently unclear. Therefore, for cases where this ambiguity applies, a point ‘.’ is displayed. Changes as of 12 January 2022: The statistical transfer and the totals with and without statistical transfer have been added to the table as a separate source/technique. Amendments as of 10 December 2021: Final figures for 2019 and further preliminary figures for 2020 have been added. The figures for the share of renewable energy from 2015 to 2018 have been revised due to an adjustment of the denominator as a result of a revision in the Energy Balance, which shifts the energy consumption of the blast furnaces from final energy consumption to own consumption. As a result, the denominator decreases about 10 PJ, increasing the share of renewable energy for those years between 0.2 and 1.1 %. When will there be new figures: Preliminary figures on gross final consumption of renewable energy on main lines for the previous year appear each year in May. Further preliminary figures for the previous year appear each year in June. In December, all renewable energy consumption figures will be published in the previous year. These figures will be given final status in December, but the figures on the share of the total energy consumption of the Netherlands can still be changed due to the availability of adjusted figures on total energy consumption.