NETHERLAND
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs is responsible
for policies regulating renewable energies and as
part of its Towards a Renewable Energy Policy document,
has implemented programmes that will promote the development
of both photovoltaic solar energy and thermal solar
energy.
The aims of the National Multi-year Research Programme
on Solar Energy (Photovoltaic cells) are:
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improving the price-performance
ratio by 300% by 2000;
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a solid industrial base and expansion
of PV cell technology;
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a healthy market for stand-alone
PV systems;
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knowledge of PC cell applications
in the built environment;
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broader public support.
In order to translate these aims into practice, it
is hoped that the Programme’s budget will provide the
wherewithal for an effective balance between R&D on
the one side and demonstration projects and commercialisation
on the other.
In April 1997 a PV energy covenant was signed (with
further signatories in 1998 and 1999) by industrial
bodies, utilities, the R&D sector and Government to
make an effective contribution to the development of
PV energy. Originally designed to run until 2000, a
new covenant is being prepared for the period 2001-2007.
It will focus on further broadening support for PV energy.
In 1997 the Government published an Action Programme
for the period 1997-2000. The programme was aimed at
increasing the share of renewable energy in the national
energy supply to 3% in 2000 and 10% in 2020. The Ministry
stipulated certain goals for the installation of PV:
12.5 MWp by 2000, 250 MWp by 2010 and about 1 500 MWp
by 2020. At end 1999 installed PV capacity stood at
9.2 MWp of which 58% was on-grid distributed.
The aims of the National Multi-year Programme on
the Thermal Conversion of Solar Energy 1996-2000 are:
- achieving an increase in the number of solar boilers
installed of at least 80 000 by 2000;
- preparing for the market launch of other active
thermal solar energy applications;
- ensuring that the optimum use of passive solar energy
is widely applied in the construction and renovation
of residential dwellings and other buildings.
To encourage the expansion in the numbers of solar
boilers installed, the Ministry operates a subsidy scheme
and also, like the energy covenant for PV, a covenant
for solar boilers was signed at the beginning of 1999.
It will run until the end of 2001 with an option to
extend it to 2007. The signatories have undertaken to
create a market which will enable the installation of
400 000 solar boilers by 2010. The participating companies
have committed themselves to installing more than 40
000 additional solar boilers by the end of 2000 and
almost 65 000 solar boilers by 2002.
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