Thread by @Sustainable2050

The shrinking electricity use of Dutch households, thanks to efficiency. By 2018, the annual consumption per household had already decreased by 15%, from its peak in 2012. A year ago, the PBL agency estimated it would drop by another 10% in 2019 and 2020.
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Latest estimate from @statistiekcbs for 2019: 2,730 kWh per household. Higher than the PBL estimate, but still 16% lower than the peak (3,250 kWh in 2011, according to CBS).
The 2020 consumption will probably have increased due to corona (more at home), but the trend is clear.

So 20% of Dutch households can buy an electric car and charge it at home (I assume 2,500 kWh/year), and average household consumption here will still not be higher than it was in 2011-2012.
Long live LED lighting ;! (and other efficiency improvements).

Or do @statistiekcbs and @milieucentraal treat residential solar PV electricity production as ‘negative consumption’? That would explain most of the decline too, since the residential solar output of ~3 TWh, average over 8 million households, is almost 400 kWh/year.

Thx, @marjanminnesma and others for raising this!

Could @milieucentraal* or @statistiekcbs please respond?
*or @kornelisblok, chairman of its Scientific Advisory Council?

Or is only the self-consumed part (~25%) of residental solar PV eletricity subtracted from demand, as Olof says? In that case it would explain less than 100 kWh of the decrease from 2011/2012 to 2019/2020.

https://twitter.com/olofvdgaag/status/1365400863863365636

Sorry to disappoint you but:

https://twitter.com/sustainable2050/status/1365625831607967748