News - Public-private funds flows

1. Government heat network policy at odds with domestic heat pump grants

   Construction of new heat networks faltering in residential districts  The number of people in the Netherlands installing a heat ...

   News item | 04-02-2025 | 16:00

2. If CO2 prices go up, industry benefits most from Porthos’s carbon storage under the North Sea

   CCS project investigated: long-term risks lie with the State Carbon dioxide captured by industrial companies and pumped through a ...

   News item | 28-03-2024 | 16:30

3. Audit of crisis measures in response to high energy prices

   The Netherlands Court of Audit is investigating the effect in the Netherlands of various energy crisis measures the government ...

   News item | 30-11-2023 | 00:00

4. No follow-up audit of public broadcasting

   The Netherlands Court of Audit informed the House of Representatives by letter of 6 April 2023 that it would not honour a request ...

   News item | 06-04-2023 | 00:00

5. Hidden costs of the National Energy Retrofit Fund

   The National Energy Retrofit Fund (ERF) is a scheme to make homes sustainable. By the end of 2021, the fund (initially called the ...

   News item | 13-12-2022 | 13:00

6. No large-scale logging, but also no national insight into results of forest management

   Uncertain whether forest management will achieve intended results  The image that has emerged in recent years that ...

   News item | 06-12-2022 | 07:00

7. EU grants make a difference, but do not necessarily meet the greatest challenges

   More than €7 billion spent in 7 years: recipients satisfied The Netherlands spent more than €7.4 billion in EU grants in ...

   News item | 18-10-2022 | 06:30

8. Implementation of government policy should not disadvantage citizens and democracy

   Parliament and the government must have a proper understanding of the consequences for citizens and business, and also for ...

   News item | 26-10-2021 | 10:00

9. Make advance agreements on the additional €8.5 billion released for education

   In a letter to the House of Representatives, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science and the Minister for Primary and ...

   News item | 31-03-2021 | 13:00

10. NPO unable to manage public broadcasting efficiently

    Broadcasting companies provide NPO with too little information on television programme costs The Dutch Public Broadcaster (NPO) ...

    News item | 10-12-2019 | 14:30