The document discusses the Netherlands' national energy agreement to increase renewable energy production and reduce emissions. It aims to raise the renewable energy share to 14% by 2020 and 16% by 2023 through expanding wind, biomass, and biogas. The agreement involves 47 organizations and includes plans to create new jobs, lower CO2 transport emissions, and grow the cleantech industry fourfold by 2020 through energy savings, renewable scaling, and other policies like subsidies. The biogas sector in particular is identified as having strong potential to contribute to renewable energy targets.
4. Towards an energy agreement for sustainable growth
Steps
•House’s motion “National Energy Transition Agreement”
•Social wishes i.e. “New energy for the Netherlands”
•Government’s request for advice Social Economic Council (SER)
•SER is offering itself as a platform for arriving at a National Energy Agreement for sustainable growth
5. Energy agreement for Sustainable growth
WHY?
•Netherlands is lagging behind: 4.5% renewables
•No consistent long term policy: “zwabberbeleid”
• Investors are hesitating
•New technologies => decentralisation of energy
production => bottom up movements
•EU-commitments:
•14% renewables in 2020
•Energy Efficiency Directive: 1.5% annualy
•New global growth markets: CleanTech
Energy agreement for Sustainable growth
47 organisations participated
6. Energy agreement for Sustainable growth
Aims:
•Energy saving 1.5% annually
•Renewable energy production to 14% in 2020
•and a further increase to 16% in 2023
•15,000 jobs new jobs
•17% Reduction of CO2-emissions in transport sector
(1990-2030)
•Increase economic value of Dutch CleanTech sector:
factor 4 in 2020
7. Saving energy, annual 1.5 %
2300 PJ
2083 PJ
2183 PJ
Final energy consumption
2020 existing policy + energy agreement
2010 situation
2020 existing policy
8. Scaling up renewable energy generation Backbone to 14% 2020
Wind On shore
Wind Off shore
2200 MW
1000 MW
7 PJ
+3800 MW
6000 MW
Starting point 2013
+ From 2013-2020
+18 PJ
Biomass co-firing
2000 MW
+1000 MW
25PJ
9. 186 PJ from other sources
Steering Group Other renewable energy sources
• to develop road maps for renewable energy generation (end 2014)
Prognostications for
renewable energy mix 2023
10. Energy agreement for Sustainable growth
Ten basic components
•Energy savings
•Scaling up of renewable energy generation
•Decentralized energy generation
•Energy transmission network
•EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)
•Energy from fossil fuels
•Mobility and transport
•Employment opportunities
•Energy innovation an energy export
•Funding programme
11. Government instruments for renewable energy
•Sustainable Energy Incentive Scheme Plus (SDE+)
•Energy investment allowance (EIA)
•The Green Funds scheme, ‘green certificates’
•Green funds
•Intervention programme “integrated stimulation of renewable energy”
•State coordination scheme
•Green deals
12. Sustainable Energy Scheme (SDE+)
• Covering the unprofitable gap of projects
• Over a period of 12 or 15 (PV) years. Long term financial security
• Phasing in, starting with the most cost effective technologies
• SDE+ is financed by a surcharge on energy bills
• Budget in 2014 is 3,5 billion euro.
14. 2020
•1,2 billion m3 of biogas
•equals 20 PJ
•7% of the 2020 target for renewable energy
15. To summarize
•Much to do
•Dutch approach – a national energy agreement that unites divergent interests
•Public and private parties are each responsible for implementing the steps set out
•Important step towards a carbon free economy
•Biogas has a large potential to contribute to renewable energy targets
16. To Quote Herman Pleij, professor of historical letters from his book The Well-being of Holland
''The Netherlands owes its existence to the democracy of dry feet. We need each other literally in order not to drown and subsequently have to rely on other countries for the means to stay alive.''