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• Energy Saving: ambitions and results

  Audit | 05-10-2011

  

  Monitoring data show that energy saving in the Netherlands has been below the government's ambitions for many years. We investigated why the energy saving targets have not been achieved and what consequences the underachievement has for the national and European energy and climate targets for 2020. We also looked at the options available to make energy saving policy more effective.

• Sustainable energy production schemes (MEP and SDE); Impact Assessment 2010

  Audit | 25-03-2010

  

  In this report we look back at an audit we carried out at the request of the House of Representatives of the Grant Scheme for the Environmental Quality of Electricity Production (MEP) that we published in May 2007. The MEP must lead to 9% of electricity consumption in the Netherlands being generated from sustainable sources. Under the MEP, energy producers receive a government grant for the green electricity they produce from, say, biomass or wind power. The scheme was closed to new applications in August 2006 because the minister thought the MEP goals for 2010 would be achieved without needing to award new grants. In April 2008, the Minister of Economic Affairs (EZ) introduced a new grant scheme for sustainable energy: the Sustainable Energy Production Scheme (SDE). When drawing up this successor to the MEP, the minister took account of the findings and conclusions of our earlier report.

• Audit findings on Weak Links in Coastal Defences Programme

  Audit | 10-11-2009

  Findings of our audit into the execution of the Weak Links in Coastal Defences Programme, which is part of the Flood Risk Management Programme. The audit concentrated on the cost aspect.

• Tariff Regulation Energy Transport

  Audit | 31-03-2009

  At the request of the House of Representatives, we have audited the way in which the tariff paid by Dutch consumers for the operation of gas and electricity networks is regulated by the Office of Energy Regulation of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa).

• European CO2 emission trading system and its implementation in the Netherlands

  Audit | 01-11-2007

  Although the Netherlands has in broad lines introduced the European CO2 emission trading system correctly, the Court of Audit has identified certain risks.

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