Energy Use in the Netherlands – where does it go?

Here, we revisit the red stack for the Netherlands to sum up where all the energy goes.

Let's start with the transportation aspect of the Netherlands energy consumption.  10.82 kWh/day per person is used when transporting stuff, 14.55 kWh/day is used on plane travel and 32.94 kWh/day is used on automobiles.  The total consumption of the Netherlands is about 150 kWh/day so transportation accounts for about 39% of the Netherlands energy consumption.

Now we'll observe how residential and commercial energy consumption contributes to the total.  Heating and cooling in the Netherlands consumes 26.7 kWh/day while light only consumes 4.2 kWh/day.  We can now conclude that residential and commercial consumption accounts for about 21% of the Netherlands energy consumption.

Last, we examine how significant industrial energy consumption is in the Netherlands.  The two main factors of industrial energy consumption are food and stuff and they use 13.76 kWh/day and 46.79 kWh/day, respectively.  Industrial energy consumption accounts for 40% of the total energy consumption in the Netherlands.