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Under the Electricity Act 1998, generation is exempt from the payment of transmission costs, but consumption is not. This highlights one of the main barriers to energy storage in the Netherlands, as batteries currently pay more transmission costs than polluting wholesale consumers.
Dutch home battery purchases keep driving battery storage installations. According to Dutch New Energy Research’s Nationaal Smart Storage Trendrapport 24/25, 410 MWh of new battery capacity was installed in the Netherlands in 2023 – 1 MWh is enough to power a couple hundred homes for a day.
However, the Dutch regulatory authority, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), can grant exemptions where electricity storage is necessary for grid operators to perform their statutory duties but where market participants are not sufficiently investing in storage capacity.
The Netherlands rechargeable battery market is semi-fragmented. Some of the key players (not in particular order) are BYD Company Ltd, Duracell Inc., Exide Industries Ltd, EnerSys, and Panasonic Holdings Corporation, among others.
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