The Netherlands: the live status of the Dutch electricity grid
The Netherlands runs a compact, densely-interconnected grid at the heart of north-west Europe's electricity market, operated by TenneT. It is shifting fast from a gas-dominated mix towards offshore wind and solar - the Dutch North Sea is filling with turbines, and the country has one of the highest rates of solar capacity per person in the world. It connects to Great Britain through BritNed, a subsea interconnector to the Isle of Grain in Kent. Demand, generation, day-ahead price and generation mix below are live from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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Gas still fills the gaps, but offshore wind and solar now regularly supply over half of Dutch demand on a good day.
Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.
Generation mix over the last 24 hours
Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
History
Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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About the Netherlands grid
TenneT operates both the Dutch and a large part of the German transmission grid, part of the Continental Europe synchronous area. The Netherlands has leaned hard into offshore wind over the past decade - the Hollandse Kust wind farms alone add several gigawatts of capacity - while also building out one of the world's highest concentrations of rooftop and utility-scale solar per person, helped by a flat, densely-built landscape and strong government incentives.
Borssele, the country's only remaining nuclear plant, supplies a small but steady share of demand and is slated for a life extension alongside plans for new reactors. Gas still plays a large balancing role - the Netherlands sits on what was once Europe's largest gas field, Groningen (now closed for production due to induced earthquakes) - but its generation share has been falling steadily as renewables scale up. BritNed, opened in 2011, was one of the first big subsea interconnectors of the modern era and remains the Netherlands' only direct electrical link to Great Britain.
Records & context
- Renewable share of productionRecord 49% in 2025
- Wind + solar46% of generation in 2025 - more than all fossil fuels combined, a first
- Electricity exportsRecord 30TWh in 2025 (net exports 14TWh)
- Offshore wind capacity~4.7GW at end of 2024 and rising - Hollandse Kust West VI (760MW) began generating in July 2026
- Solar generation per personHighest in the EU
- BritNed capacity1,000MW to Great Britain
Approximate combined wind and solar share of Dutch generation by year - rising quickly.
Sources: CBS (2025 production and exports), CBS (offshore wind), reNEWS (Hollandse Kust West VI), Ember, TenneT (BritNed). Last checked: 2 October 2026.
Data sources for Netherlands
The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover the Netherlands, so this page draws on a different source instead:
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected TSO (RTE included) to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Netherlands's own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.
Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity, and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow per interconnector (BritNed), so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.