Installed capacity — Netherlands
What Netherlands could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Solar | 29,282 | 44.8% |
| Natural gas | 18,412 | 28.2% |
| Onshore wind | 7,178 | 11.0% |
| Offshore wind | 4,739 | 7.3% |
| Hard coal | 4,012 | 6.1% |
| Waste | 777 | 1.2% |
| Nuclear | 486 | 0.7% |
| Biomass | 418 | 0.6% |
| Run-of-river hydro | 38 | 0.1% |
| Other sources | 1 | 0.0% |
| Geothermal | 0 | 0.0% |
| Pumped-storage hydro | 0 | 0.0% |
| Hydro reservoir | 0 | 0.0% |
| Lignite | 0 | 0.0% |
| Oil | 0 | 0.0% |
How much ran at once
The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.
Of 65,343 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 24,612 MW — 38% of the fleet, on 12/01/2026, 12:00:00.
- Solar 425/ 29,282 MW 1%
- Gas 11,130/ 18,412 MW 60%
- Wind 6,985/ 11,917 MW 59%
- Coal 3,376/ 4,012 MW 84%
- Other 15,979/ 778 MW 2,054%
- Nuclear 493/ 486 MW 101%
- Biomass 622/ 418 MW 149%
The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.
How it changed, year by year
Total installed capacity, from 2025 to 2026.
- 2026 65,343MW 0
- 2025 65,343MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.
Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.