In 2024, the total installed wind power capacity in the Netherlands was around 11.7 gigawatts, an increase compared to the previous year. Europe is one of the regions with the largest installed wind power capacity worldwide.

Over the last decade, the onshore wind energy capacity has increased in the Netherlands, reaching approximately ***** megawatts in 2024. Europe is one of the regions with the largest installed onshore wind energy capacity worldwide.

The energy generation capacity of offshore wind power in the Netherlands has enormously increased in the last decade. In 2013, the European country held a maximum capacity of *** megawatts and by 2024 it was able to reach *** gigawatts. Europe is one of the regions with the largest installed wind power capacity worldwide.

Maps with wind speed, wind rose and wind power density potential in The Netherlands. The GIS data stems from the Global Wind Atlas (http://globalwindatlas.info/). GIS data is available as JSON and CSV. The second link provides poster size (.pdf) and midsize maps (.png).

Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy data was reported at 685.000 kWh mn in May 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 810.000 kWh mn for Apr 2019. Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy data is updated monthly, averaging 935.000 kWh mn from Jan 2018 (Median) to May 2019, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,440.000 kWh mn in Mar 2019 and a record low of 425.000 kWh mn in Jul 2018. Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.RB007: Electricity Supply and Consumption.

The data in this dataset comes from the HARMONIE model with a wind farm parameterisation. The model simulated a scenario for 2050. The locations and properties of the wind turbines were used as the input for the model. For one type of wind turbine, the height of the turbine and the diameter of the rotor in the input files were swapped. This concerns approximately 3750 turbines in future wind farms from the scenario. Consequentially impacting both wind energy production and atmospheric parameters such as wind speed in and around these wind farms. Hence it is not recommended to use this dataset for studies. The simulations will most likely be run again with corrected wind turbine input files and should be available in a few months. Winds of the North Sea in 2050 (WINS50): wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure and relative humidity at 10-600 meter height from a reanalysis for 2020 with the NWP model HARMONIE-AROME nested in the ECMWF reanalysis ERA5. The HARMONIE-AROME simulation includes a wind farm parameterization (Fitch et al., 2012) using a 2050 scenario for turbine locations and properties over sea and over land. Data are stored as time series for individual grid points in a subdomain covering the Netherlands. More information on: www.wins50.nl.

In 2024, electricity production from wind power in the Netherlands amounted to roughly ** terawatt hours, up from ** terawatt hours in the previous year. This was also the peak production in the period of consideration.

Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy: Offshore data was reported at 238.000 kWh mn in May 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 264.000 kWh mn for Apr 2019. Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy: Offshore data is updated monthly, averaging 314.000 kWh mn from Jan 2018 (Median) to May 2019, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 428.000 kWh mn in Jan 2018 and a record low of 130.000 kWh mn in Jul 2018. Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy: Offshore data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.RB007: Electricity Supply and Consumption.

The Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (DOWA) is validated wind climatology (and information on temperature, pressure and relative humidity) based on 10 years (2008-2017) or model data: weather model HARMONIE-AROME is nested in re-analysis ERA5. More information on the website: www.dutchoffshorewindatlas.nl. Note: the proj4 string in the NetCDF file is incorrect. It should be: +PROJ=lcc +lat_1=52.500000 +lat_2=52.500000 +lat_0=52.500000 +lon_0=.000000 +k_0=1.0 +x_0=92963.487426 +y_0=230383.739533 +a=6371220.000000 +b=6371220.000000

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Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (DOWA) project - daily files with LES hourly-averaged wind speeds for three Dutch wind parks Dissemination of high-resolution (time: 10mins; space: 64x64m) information for Dutch OWFZs (offshore wind farm zones) is a deliverable of the DOWA project. This dataset contains daily files with hourly-averaged wind speed (and standard deviation) for OWFZs Borssele (exp006), Hollandse Kust Noord (exp101) and Hollandse Kust Zuid (exp205). More information is available on the DOWA website: www.dutchoffshorewindatlas.nl

Offshore wind energy production in the Netherlands grew from some 750 gigawatt hours in 2014 to over 15 terawatt hours in 2024. The Netherlands is one of the leading offshore wind markets worldwide.

This table contains information about the Dutch production of renewable electricity, the number of installations used and the installed capacity of these installations. During production, a distinction is made between normalised gross production and non-standard gross and net production without normalisation.

Production of electricity is shown in million kilowatt hours and as a percentage of total electricity consumption in the Netherlands. The production of renewable electricity is compared with total electricity consumption and not against total electricity production. This choice is due to European conventions.

The data is broken down according to the type of energy source and the technique used to obtain the electricity. A distinction is made between four main categories: hydro power, wind energy, solar power and biomass.

Data available from: 1990.

Status of the figures: This table contains definite figures until 2022, revised provisional figures for 2023 and provisional figures for 2024.

Changes as of June 6th 2025: Figures for 2024 have been updated.

Changes as of March 10th 2025: Figures added for 2024.

Changes as of January 2025: Figures on the capacities of municipal waste and biogas are added for 2022 and 2023.

Changes as of November 2024: Figures about capacity are now published.

Changes as of November 2024: Figures for 2021- 2023 have been adjusted. 2022 is now definitive, 2023 stays revised provisional.Because of new insights for windmills regarding own electricity use and capacity, figures on 2021 have been revised. The capacity of solar photovoltaic from 2022 onwards is equal tot the system capacity of the installation. This means the maximal capacity with respect to the panel or the inverter.

Changes as of June 7th 2024: Revised provisional figures of 2023 have been added.

Changes as of March 7th 2024: Provisional figures of 2023 have been added. The gross electricity production with normalisation (according to RED II) is not yet known for some forms of biomass for 2023. When this applies a "." is displayed. RED II refers to the EU renewable energy directive which came into force in 2021.

Changes as of November 14th 2023: Figures of 2021 and 2022 have been updated. The status for figures of 2021 is now definite and the status for figures of 2022 is revised provisional. Figures of 2015-2020 have been revised in other tables on electricity. This revision has not been implemented in this table, as a result of which inconsitensies of (max) 80 GWh on a yearly basis are possible between the figures for biomass.

When will new figures be published? Provisional figures on electricity output for the previous year are published each year in February. Revised provisional figures on electricity output for the previous year are published each year in June. Definite figures on electricity output for the previous year are published each year in December.

This table shows monthly, quarterly and annual figures of the production of electricity by wind energy, the capacity of wind turbines and an index for the amount of wind supply for the production of electricity. The figures are broken down by onshore and offshore wind. The index for the amount of wind is only available for wind turbines on land.

Data available from 2002 to June 2019.

Status of the figures: The figures in this table are definite from January 2002 to December 2017, adjusted provisional from January 2018 to December 2018 and provisional from January 2019 onwards. Given that this table is stopped, the data will not be made definite.

Changes as of 11 September 2019: None, this table has been stopped.

When will new figures be published? No longer applicable.

This table, for the subject electricity production, is continued in the table Elektriciteitsbalans; aanbod en verbruik (Dutch only).

Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy: Onshore data was reported at 448.000 kWh mn in May 2019. This records a decrease from the previous number of 545.000 kWh mn for Apr 2019. Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy: Onshore data is updated monthly, averaging 571.000 kWh mn from Jan 2018 (Median) to May 2019, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,060.000 kWh mn in Mar 2019 and a record low of 295.000 kWh mn in Jul 2018. Netherlands Electricity Production: Net: Wind Energy: Onshore data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.RB007: Electricity Supply and Consumption.

This table expresses the use of renewable energy as gross final consumption of energy. Figures are presented in an absolute way, as well as related to the total energy use in the Netherlands. The total gross final energy consumption in the Netherlands (the denominator used to calculate the percentage of renewable energy per ‘Energy sources and techniques’) can be found in the table as ‘Total, including non-renewables’ and Energy application ‘Total’. The gross final energy consumption for the energy applications ‘Electricity’ and ‘Heat’ are also available. With these figures the percentages of the different energy sources and applications can be calculated; these values are not available in this table. The gross final energy consumption for ‘Transport’ is not available because of the complexity to calculate this. More information on this can be found in the yearly publication ‘Hernieuwbare energie in Nederland’.

Renewable energy is energy from wind, hydro power, the sun, the earth, heat from outdoor air and biomass. This is energy from natural processes that is replenished constantly.

The figures are broken down into energy source/technique and into energy application (electricity, heat and transport).

This table focuses on the share of renewable energy according to the EU Renewable Energy Directive. Under this directive, countries can apply an administrative transfer by purchasing renewable energy from countries that have consumed more renewable energy than the agreed target. For 2020, the Netherlands has implemented such a transfer by purchasing renewable energy from Denmark. This transfer has been made visible in this table as a separate energy source/technique and two totals are included; a total with statistical transfer and a total without statistical transfer.

Figures for 2020 and before were calculated based on RED I; in accordance with Eurostat these figures will not be modified anymore. Inconsistencies with other tables undergoing updates may occur.

Data available from: 1990

Status of the figures: This table contains definite figures up to and including 2022, figures for 2023 are revised provisional figures and figures for 2024 are provisional.

Changes as of june 2025: Figures for 2024 have been added.

Changes as of January 2025 Renewable cooling has been added as Energy source and technique from 2021 onwards, in accordance with RED II. Figures for 2020 and earlier follow RED I definitions, renewable cooling isn’t a part of these definitions.
The energy application “Heat” has been renamed to “Heating and cooling”, in accordance with RED II definitions. RED II is the current Renewable Energy Directive which entered into force in 2021

Changes as of November 15th 2024 Figures for 2021-2023 have been adjusted. 2022 is now definitive, 2023 stays revised provisional. Because of new insights for windmills regarding own electricity use and capacity, figures on 2021 have been revised.

Changes as of March 2024: Figures of the total energy applications of biogas, co-digestion of manure and other biogas have been restored for 2021 and 2022. The final energy consumption of non-compliant biogas (according to RED II) was wrongly included in the total final consumption of these types of biogas. Figures of total biogas, total biomass and total renewable energy were not influenced by this and therefore not adjusted.

When will new figures be published? Provisional figures on the gross final consumption of renewable energy in broad outlines for the previous year are published each year in June. Revised provisional figures for the previous year appear each year in June.

In November all figures on the consumption of renewable energy in the previous year will be published. These figures remain revised provisional, definite figures appear in November two years after the reporting year. Most important (expected) changes between revised provisional figures in November and definite figures a year later are the figures on solar photovoltaic energy. The figures on the share of total energy consumption in the Netherlands could also still be changed by the availability of adjusted figures on total energy consumption.

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 and 2024 are revised provisional. - Figures for 2025 are provisional.

Changes as of June 30th 2025: Figures added for April 2025.

Changes as of June 16th 2025: Figures added for 2024 have been updated.

Changes as of May 23rd 2025: Figures added for March 2025.

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.

The dataset on offshore wind farms in the European seas was created in 2014 by CETMAR for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the aggregation and harmonization of datasets provided by several sources. It is updated every year and it is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The dataset contains points and/or (where available) polygons representing offshore wind farms in the following countries: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Each point and polygon has the following attributes (where available): Name, Nº of turbines, Status (Approved, Planned, Dismantled, Construction, Production, Test site), Country, Year, Power (MW), Distance to coast (metres) and Area (square kilometres). The distance to coast (EEA coastline shapefile) has been calculated using the UTM WGS84 Zone projected coordinate system where data fall in.

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This data set contains output from the model runs that were used to produce the Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas (DOWA), but for the full domain, on model levels and for more parameters. DOWA provides a validated wind climatology based on 10 years (2008-2017) of model data: weather model HARMONIE-AROME is nested in re-analyses ERA5. More information on the website: www.dutchoffshorewindatlas.nl. Note: the proj4 string in the NetCDF file is incorrect. It should be: +proj=lcc +lat_1=52.500000 +lat_2=52.500000 +lat_0=52.500000 +lon_0=.000000 +k_0=1.0 +x_0=649536.512574 +y_0=1032883.739533 +a=6371220.000000 +b=6371220.000000