How can the Netherlands achieve European energy goals?

To achieve the Europe 20-20-20 targets, the Netherlands signed the Energie Akkoord – the Dutch Agreement on Targets for Sustainable Energy. The agreement outlines an average 1.5% increase in energy conservation per year, leading to energy savings of 100 PJ by 2020. In addition, energy from renewables will reach 14% in 2020, and 16% by 2023.

Can the Netherlands meet its own energy demand?

The TRANSFORM scenario raises the bar much higher. Behavioral change and far-reaching energy savings will reduce the demand for energy. Moreover, the Netherlands can largely meet its own energy demand thanks to the generation of electricity by the wind farms in the North Sea. The scenarios have been developed using the OPERA model.

Why should Energy-Nederland implement kev2023?

Energie-Nederland sees the KEV2023 as an encouragement to make the necessary extra effort, both for implementation and for essential new policy. This is in any case necessary for: better monitoring of energy savings, so that the cabinet can also manage and guide better. New calculation method leads to premature conclusions about CO2 reduction

Is a future Dutch energy system a good idea?

The costs of the energy system are lower in both scenarios than for a scenario that does not aim for a climate-neutral energy system, and are lowest for the TRANSFORM scenario. The two scenarios show a number of comparable results, which seem robust elements of a future Dutch energy system up to 2050.