IEA Bioenergy Task 40 country report for the Netherlands 2011

This country report was written within the frame of IEA Bioenergy Task 40. In summary, the aims of this country report are: (1) To provide a concise overview of biomass policy, domestic resources, biomass users, biomass prices and biomass trade, and (2) To analyse bioenergy trends, and reasons for change in the Netherlands and point out barriers & opportunities for trade in detail, and Current biomass user (energy use) Table ES-1 shows the energy use of biomass in the Netherlands in 2010. The largest part of the bioenergy comes from incineration of biogenic portion from municipal waste. The other main biomass users are utilities and households (wood stoves). Apart from that, biomass waste was also fermented into biogas, which amount to primary energy of 12,1 PJ.