Uploaded on 2017-04-16 by Joeri Bijster

1. What are the dominant fossil fuels used in your country? Use www.iea.org/sankey to discover it (Hint: e aware of the flow of the energy in the Sankey diagram. Sometimes a part of the production of energy goes to the export of a country. Exported energy won't be consumed by your country itself). The dominant fossil fuels in the Netherlands are imported oil products being number one and own gas production being number two. The interesting thing is that most of the imported oil and most of the gas production is exported. Apparently we are trading a lot of energy. 2. Where are the dominant fossil fuels mainly used for in your country? (e.g. transport, industry, non-energy use etc.) The fossil fuels are mainly used for transportation (9.75 Mtoe oil products) and other (11.35 Mtoe gas). 3. It is your task to create a new policy in order to improve the environmental friendly and sustainable sources and consumption of energy of your country. How would you do that? Think of how you can improve the sources and the consumption of energy. o In this exercise, you are allowed to write how you would do this, but we strongly encourage you to provide your ideas with self-taken photographs (see Notes) an/or self-made sketches. Being a policy maker, I would invest in electrical cars to lower the fossil energy demand for transportation. Also, the gas production should be lower (this is also necessary because of the earthquakes in Groningen) in lieu of wind energy. The Netherlands currently have around 3 off shore wind farms, and since we have the technology, this energy source should be expanded. Generally the production of energy exceed the nation’s consumption, so we rather make a shift from trading fossil fuel energy to trading something more sustainable.