Energy transition: The need for policy-makers to address uncertainty.
Jack Kruf and Koos van Houdt | April 2018.
On 20 April 2018, PRIMO organised the 5th ‘From Global to Local’ Think Tank in The Hague, in close collaboration with UDITE and BNG Bank.*
Welcome
BNG Bank, as Pauline Bieringa, Director of Public Finance, noted in her welcome address, is deeply committed to the issue of the energy transition. The bank operates an Energy Transition Facility, a fund managed in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy and Tilburg University.

A wide range of projects relating to the energy transition and the promotion of solar and wind energy may be eligible for funding from the Energy Transition Facility. It regards the partnership with PRIMO as highly valuable, as the cross-pollination of knowledge and experience is mutually beneficial.
Professor Bastiaan Zoeteman opens his keynote speech as follows: “The Netherlands is lagging behind in Europe’s energy transition. The Netherlands has become complacent. In the 1980s, under the leadership of ministers such as Winsemius and Nijpels (both of the VVD), the country set a good example internationally when it came to the environment, energy and climate. But the Netherlands also had natural gas. A source of fossil energy considered relatively clean. As a result, our country has fallen behind in terms of policy regarding the energy transition. Now that it is necessary and natural gas extraction is coming to an end, we are languishing at the bottom of the European Union alongside Belgium.”
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