Coal and coal products; indigenous production, imports, exports; from 1802
| Periods | Primary coals Total energy supply (TPES) (million kg) | Primary coals Indigenous production, total (million kg) | Primary coals Indigenous production hard coal (million kg) | Primary coals Indigenous production lignite (million kg) | Primary coals Imports (million kg) | Primary coals Exports (million kg) | Primary coals Bunkers (million kg) | Primary coals Stock change (million kg) | Coal products Patent fuel; output (million kg) | Coal products Coke-oven cokes Output, total (million kg) | Coal products Coke-oven cokes Manufacture of coke-oven products output (million kg) | Coal products Coke-oven cokes Output, other (million kg) | Coal products Gas works gas Output by public gas works companies (million m3 natural gas equivalents) | Coal products Gas works gas Delivery by energy companies (million m3 natural gas equivalents) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1802 | 154 | . | 15 | . | 139 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| 1850 | 516 | . | 17 | . | 515 | 16 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| 1900 | 5,321 | . | 320 | . | 5,482 | 481 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| 1925 | . | 7,325 | 7,117 | 208 | . | . | . | . | 571 | 1,981 | 1,144 | 837 | 245 | . |
| 1950 | . | 12,441 | 12,247 | 194 | . | . | 377 | . | 1,049 | 3,981 | 2,826 | 1,155 | 419 | 525 |
| 1960 | 17,381 | 12,502 | 12,498 | 4 | 7,099 | 2,192 | 28 | . | 1,181 | 4,809 | 4,517 | 292 | 287 | 815 |
| 1970 | 7,460 | 4,334 | 4,334 | 4,773 | 1,647 | . | 886 | 1,997 | 1,997 | 0 | ||||
| 1980 | 6,112 | 7,071 | 1,260 | 301 | 2,455 | 2,455 | 0 | |||||||
| 1990 | 12,881 | 12,880 | 0 | 2,743 | 2,736 | 7 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 12,742 | 12,619 | 123 | 2,127 | 2,116 | 11 | ||||||||
| 2010 | 11,890 | 12,053 | -163 | 2,030 | 2,022 | 8 | ||||||||
| 2015 | 18,020 | 17,426 | 594 | 2,035 | 2,035 | |||||||||
| 2016 | 16,522 | 16,394 | 128 | 2,034 | 2,034 | |||||||||
| 2017 | 14,735 | 14,920 | -185 | 1,964 | 1,964 | |||||||||
| 2018 | 13,102 | 13,043 | 58 | 1,986 | 1,986 | |||||||||
| 2019 | 10,182 | 10,368 | -187 | 1,988 | 1,988 | |||||||||
| 2020 | 6,507 | 6,048 | 459 | 1,879 | 1,879 | |||||||||
| 2021 | 8,854 | 8,728 | 125 | 1,885 | 1,885 | |||||||||
| 2022 | 8,848 | 9,066 | -218 | 1,825 | 1,825 | |||||||||
| 2023** | 6,388 | 6,503 | -115 | 1,761 | 1,761 | |||||||||
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||||||||
Table explanation
This table presents the main figures for supply and consumption of primary coal (hard coal, lignite) and coal products in the Netherlands in a long time series.
Data available:
From 1802
Status of the figures:
Figures of 1802 up to and including 2022 are definite. Figures of 2023 are revised provisional.
Changes as of November 15th 2024:
There were minimal deviations from the energy balance sheet over the period 2011-2019. That has been restored. Definite figures for 2022 and revised provisional figures for 2023 have been added.
Changes as of June 7th 2024:
Revised provisional figures of 2023 have been added.
Changes as of November 14th 2023:
Figures from 2015 up to and including 2020 have been revised. The revisions relate to the introduction of an improved analysis method in 2022, which has been carried back to 2015. The differences are less then 5%. Figures of 2021 and 2022 have been updated.
When will new figures be published?
Revised provisional figures: June/July in the following year.
Definite figures: december in the second following year.
Description topics
- Primary coals
- Hard coal:
Fossil fuel existing of carbonised rests of vegetal origin.
Sorts of hard coal: anthracite, coke oven cokes and stem coal. All these types have a calorific value of more than 24 megajoules per kilogram of the ash-free and wet product.
Lignite:
Sort of coal with a calorific value of less than 20 megajoules per kilogram of the ash-free and wet product and greater than 31 percent volatile matter on a dry mineral free basis.- Total energy supply (TPES)
- The amount of energy primarily available for consumption in the Netherlands (imports plus indigenous production and withdrawal from stocks) minus the amount which is not available for consumption (exports and bunkers).
- Indigenous production, total
- Extraction of energy from nature.
- Indigenous production hard coal
- Extraction of hard coal from nature.
- Indigenous production lignite
- Extraction of lignite from nature.
- Imports
- Imports of hard coal.
- Exports
- Exports of hard coal.
- Bunkers
- Delivery of fuels for international shipping and aviation, i.e. ships and aircraft departing from Dutch (air)ports and arriving in foreign (air)ports.
- Stock change
- Changes in stock are calculated as opening stock minus closing stock, in accordance with international energy statistics guidelines. A positive figure means that stocks have decreased, and the supply of energy has thus increased. A negative figure means the opposite: an increase in stocks and a decrease in consumption.
- Coal products
- From coal derived products like coke-oven cokes, coke-oven gas and blast furnace gas.
- Patent fuel; output
- Coal pressed into blocks.
- Coke-oven cokes
- Solid coal product derived from further carbonization at high temperature. In blast furnaces the product is used to produce iron from iron ore.
- Output, total
- Manufacture of coke-oven products output
- Manufacture of coke-oven products transform coal into coke-oven cokes which is needed to produce iron and steel.
- Output, other
- Gas works gas
- Gas derived from coal and destined for distribution in the gas network.
- Output by public gas works companies
- Output of gas works gas by public gas companies is sometimes lower than the delivery by energy companies, because other companies also produce gas works gas.
- Delivery by energy companies
- Output of gas works gas by public gas companies is sometimes lower than the delivery by energy companies, because other companies also produce gas works gas.