The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has intervened in ANWB Energie's billing crisis, requiring the energy supplier to compensate approximately 700 customers who have experienced prolonged delays exceeding six weeks. The regulatory action addresses systemic issues stemming from incompatible metering hardware and mandates direct customer contact, automatic compensation payments, and potential contract modifications for affected households.

This summer, the Dutch Minister of Finance is expected to decide on the partial privatisation of the national power and gas transmission system operators, Tennet and Gas Transport Services.

A new Act on water management in the Netherlands aims to provide integrated management and fulfil EU water objectives.

A bill implementing some of the contents of the EU Third Energy Package in Dutch law was passed by the upper house of the Dutch parliament on 10 July 2012, having been passed by the lower house on 28 February 2012.

NautaDutilh's senior associate Marinke Israëls wrote an opinion article in which she argues that the current discussions about shale gas should not threaten conventional gas exploration and extraction. She urges the Minister of Economic Affairs to apply special regulations to conventional natural gas sites.

The Dutch ministry of economic affairs has revealed its 2009 feed-in tariff scheme, setting a large, approximated 1000MW, cap for renewable energy sources, from which 830MW for onshore wind and also including mini-hydro in its regime for the first time.

As sustainability becomes an integral part of developing and managing property, the possibility of a claim of greenwashing is now an important risk to manage...

On 5 February 2013 the lower house of the Dutch Parliament adopted amendments to the Heating Supply Act.