Electricity balance sheet; supply and consumption
| Periods | Gross production (mln kWh) | Own consumption for electr. production (mln kWh) | Net production Net production, total (mln kWh) | Net production Nuclear energy (mln kWh) | Net production Fuels Fuels, total (mln kWh) | Net production Fuels Coal (mln kWh) | Net production Fuels Petroleum products (mln kWh) | Net production Fuels Natural gas (mln kWh) | Net production Fuels Biomass (mln kWh) | Net production Fuels Other fuels (non-renewable) (mln kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 February* | 10,450 | 310 | 10,140 | 338 | 5,362 | 864 | 117 | 3,571 | 666 | 145 |
| 2024 March* | 10,802 | 277 | 10,525 | 361 | 5,703 | 857 | 115 | 3,838 | 745 | 148 |
| 2024 April* | 9,993 | 204 | 9,789 | 54 | 3,923 | 447 | 81 | 2,900 | 368 | 125 |
| 2024 May* | 9,146 | 191 | 8,955 | 4,141 | 508 | 86 | 3,003 | 427 | 116 | |
| 2024 June* | 9,099 | 152 | 8,948 | 167 | 3,705 | 259 | 127 | 2,934 | 269 | 115 |
| 2024 July* | 9,577 | 174 | 9,404 | 351 | 3,815 | 278 | 130 | 2,964 | 316 | 128 |
| 2024 August* | 9,835 | 205 | 9,630 | 348 | 4,308 | 568 | 139 | 3,083 | 386 | 133 |
| 2024 September* | 9,441 | 234 | 9,207 | 339 | 4,353 | 719 | 121 | 3,063 | 335 | 115 |
| 2024 October* | 9,792 | 261 | 9,531 | 355 | 5,524 | 1,240 | 111 | 3,456 | 611 | 105 |
| 2024 November* | 11,620 | 322 | 11,299 | 347 | 7,705 | 1,461 | 108 | 5,178 | 845 | 114 |
| 2024 December* | 11,573 | 338 | 11,235 | 361 | 6,486 | 1,402 | 89 | 4,030 | 814 | 150 |
| 2025 January* | 12,020 | 369 | 11,651 | 362 | 7,896 | 1,674 | 126 | 5,108 | 843 | 144 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||||
Table explanation
This table shows the supply of electricity. Consumption of electricity is calculated from the supply variables. The supply of electricity primarily includes production plus imports minus exports. The majority of the electricity produced is supplied to the public electricity grid by, for example, power stations and wind turbines. A smaller part is generated by companies themselves for the benefit of their own business processes. For example, many greenhouse companies generate their own electricity for the lighting of their greenhouses.
The net production is determined as gross production minus the own consumption of electricity. Own consumption is the amount of electricity that a producer or installation consumes during electricity production. The net production is broken down in this table into the following energy sources from which the electricity is produced: nuclear energy, coal, petroleum products, natural gas, biomass, other fuels (non-renewable), hydro power, wind energy, solar photovoltaic and other sources.
Imports and exports are further broken down by country of origin or destination.
The total net consumption of electricity in the Netherlands is calculated as the net production plus imports minus exports and distribution losses.
Data available:
Annual figures are available from 1929 onwards. Monthly figures on total electricity production, import and export are available from 1976.
Full data per month is available from 2015.
Status of the figures:
- All figures up to and including reporting year 2022 are definite.
- Figures for 2023 are revised provisional.
- Figures for 2024 and 2025 are provisional.
Changes as of March 31st 2025:
Figures added for January 2025.
Changes as of February 28th of 2025:
Figures for December 2024 have been added.
This table has been revised for 2015 to 2021 as a result of new methods that have also been applied for 2022 and 2023. This concerns changes of a maximum of a few PJ of the total supply and consumption on an annual basis.
Changes as of January 31st of 2025:
Figures for November 2024 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
Provisional figures: the second month after the end of the reporting period.
Revised provisional figures: June of the year following the reporting year.
Definite figures: not later than November of the second following year.
Description topics
- Gross production
- The total amount of electricity generated in the Netherlands. This is without deduction of the own consumption of the installations with which the electricity was produced.
- Own consumption for electr. production
- The amount of electricity that a producer or installation consumes during electricity production.
- Net production
- The total amount of electricity generated in the Netherlands minus the own consumption of the installations with which the electricity was produced.
- Net production, total
- Nuclear energy
- Energy released by nuclear fusion.
The energy is used to heat water, which is transformed into high pressure steam. This is used to generate electricity through a steam turbine.
- Fuels
- Product of which by means of combustion energy is extracted.
- Fuels, total
- Coal
- Coal consists of hard coal, brown coal (lignite) and coal products. Hard coal and brown coal are solid fossil fuels that exist of carbonized rests of vegetal origin. The carbonization is a result of prolonged exposure to high temperature and pressure. The most important coal products in the Netherlands are coke-oven cokes, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas and coal tar. For the production of electricity in the Netherlands hard coal (steam coal), coke oven gas and blast furnace gas are used.
- Petroleum products
- Liquid and gaseous fuels that are made of crude oil and natural gas liquids.
Some examples of petroleum products are motor gasoline, gas and diesel oil, kerosene, fuel oil, LPG, naphtha and residual gases. For the production of electricity in the Netherlands residual gases and some other petroleum products is used.
- Natural gas
- Gas of natural origin that mainly consists of methane. It arises from the same process that leads to the formation of petroleum. Natural gas is liquefied for transport over long distances by ship.
- Biomass
- Substances derived from vegetable or animal material of recent origin and used for the production of energy. Examples are wood, manure and waste from the food processing industry.
- Other fuels (non-renewable)
- The non-renewable part of household and industrial waste.