On 6 September 2013, the Dutch Government announced that more than forty organizations, including the Government, energy producers, network operators, construction, housing associations, chemical industry, trade unions and NGOs, had agreed to undertake the Energy Agreement (Energieakkoord) for sustainable growth. Parties are committed to reach two main targets: achieve 1.5%/year of final energy consumption savings (up to 100 PJ of energy by 2020) and increase the share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption to 14% in 2020 (from 4% in 2012), and to 16% in 2023. The coalition agreement set a target to reach 6 GW of onshore wind and 4.4 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2023. Regarding energy savings, two funds will be created for building retrofit programmes: €600m for households and €400m for housing associations.
Energy companies agreed to shut down five coal power plants built in the 1980s: Vlissingen (operated by EPZ, 426 MW, built in 1987), Nijmegen/Gelderland (Electrabel, 590 MW, 1981) and Amer-8 (Essent, 645 MW, 1980) power plants are to close down during 2016. Maasvlakte I and II (Essent, 530 MW each, built in 1988 and 1987) are to close by 1 July 2017. If the old coal-fired plants are closed respecting the aforementioned schedule, an exemption of the coal tax of €14/t introduced in 2013 will be created.
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