For the first time, most Dutch electricity comes from renewables

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by Skittels0

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  4. Closing of domestic gas fields and war with Russia will do that to your energy mix 😅 still i think we could do better mostly in installing new capacity to the grid

  5. At the same time electricity imports were up by 2 percent to 20 billion kWh in 2024. In particular, imports from Germany (up by 9 percent) and Norway (up by 19 percent) increased while imports from Belgium and Denmark decreased.

    Exports of electricity exceeded imports in 2024, just as in the previous two years. Although exports declined by 1.0 billion kWh to 24 billion kWh. Exports to Germany (down by 12 percent) and the United Kingdom (down by 24 percent) fell, in particular. Germany was able to import electricity at a lower price, due to increased production by French nuclear power plants. Exports to Belgium actually increased by 17 percent, due in part to lower electricity production at Belgium’s gas-fired power plants.

    And that shows the main issue with renewable energy – you need some constant source, unrelated to Sun light or winds.

    While renewable grows, Dutch import of electricity also grows, as the grid needs more balancing power. Same with Germany.

    Actually now French nuclear reactors and Norwegian hydropower are saving Western Europe.

  6. Dutch are planning on building more wind farms in the North Sea. Should account for roughly 20% of all energy.
    Solar panels are already mandatory for many years on new houses and they agreed to build two new nuclear sites.

  7. In other good news, our electricity prices are keeping in trend with this shiite.

  9. This is the way. But: other respectable sources tell me that the renewables share of electricity generation in the Netherlands this year is 19%

    https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?l=en&c=NL&interval=year&legendItems=11

    Original data [ENTSO-E](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Network_of_Transmission_System_Operators_for_Electricity)

    > Information from data provider TenneT NL: The publication represents the generation identifiable per fuel type, if not identifiable the data is published as “others” or not published. **Data on Solar is mostly not available.**

    [36% of the share are “others”](https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&c=NL&interval=year). I don’t think “others” should just be added to the renewables share without looking into the numbers and categorizations of the source.

    Would be interesting to see the actual primary data sources, who is correct.

  11. In Spain we already are sometimes at a 100% from renewables, it’s nice that we are advancing in the correct direction

  14. Can’t make wind mills/solar panels without fossil fuels, don’t delude yourselves. You are still burning fossil fuels.

    edit. downvotes for describing objective physical reality ( you can’t used reneweable energy to build renewables; for example arc furnaces don’t cut it for high grade steel, you need coal ). r/europe is retarded.

  15. Is this including excess generation in the summer that we essentially waste?

    My panels have a 15-1 difference between they produce exact day now and during a typical winter day.

    The excess production in summer is effectively worthless.

  18. Nuclear is so unfairly undeveloped. Especially in such an engineering rich country.

  23. Most electricity *produced* in the Netherlands.

    They still import a good deal from France/Belgium/Germany, none of whom have renewable majority grids.

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