Below, you will find an overview of different subsidies and loans for residents, employers, and companies.
Environmental Subsidies
Environmental subsidies and loans are offered for different purposes or purchases and can come from a national, provincial, and municipal level. Let's start at the national level.
Dutch Government
The Dutch government finds climate change one of the most challenging problems of our generation. Therefore, it aims for a strong and sustainable economy to secure a future that is circular, climate neutral, and free of fossil fuels.
Central Government
With the Investment Subsidy for Sustainable Energy and Energy Saving (ISD), you can request an allowance for insulation practices such as cavity wall insulation, roof insulation, HR+++ glass and triple glass, as well as floor insulation.
Additionally, it’s possible to request it for certain sustainable warmth techniques like a new heat pump, solar boiler, and connection to the district heating system.
Homeowners and owner associations can apply for both the subsidy and loan with a low-interest rate to better insulate their homes.
If you are planning to insulate your home, you will be able to pay the 9% btw-tariff (instead of 21%) for labour costs tied to installing insulation materials to floors, walls, and roofs in homes older than 2 years.
Read more here (Dutch)
When you want to renovate your home, it is possible to finance this renovation with a bouwdepot, a construction deposit. When you take out a mortgage with NHG, you can directly co-finance energy-saving measures.
Province South Holland
This subsidy is meant for cooperating companies in the industrial sector that wish to adjust the infrastructure on their respective properties and connect it to, for instance, each other's waste heat.
Read more (Dutch)
To stimulate the use of solar energy, the province offers subsidies to owners of big roofs, water basins, and parking spaces where PV-panels can be installed.
Learn more. (Dutch)
Municipality Leiden
Leiden is working on becoming a sustainable city. To do so, the municipality offers subsidies and loans and supports projects to stimulate sustainability.
In addition, it wishes to uphold national and international agreements, like the National Energy Agreement and UN Paris Climate Agreement
Leiden
This subsidy is meant to stimulate the participation of Leiden residents in the energy transition. It is about finding concrete solutions to the transition and, or the CO2 reduction in the city.
The subsidy can be requested by homeowners, tenants, and organisations.
The Circularity subsidy is meant for creative, and innovative initiatives to reuse waste.
This subsidy is available for residents, residents organisations, social organisations, employers and business associations in Leiden.
The subsidy for Green Roofs (Groene Daken) stimulates greener roofs and rooftops in Leiden – like moss, sedum, grass or herb roofs.
The new green roof has to be at least 10 square metres.
The Regionaal Energieloket has a multilanguage customer contact center and is always willing to explain more in English.
Save energy to lower your monthly living costs. By investing in energy-saving measures (such as solar panels or roof insulation) you make your home more comfortable and you contribute to a better environment. Learn about the subsidies you can get on the website of Regionaal Energieloket. (Unfortunately only in Dutch)
Leiderdorp
Homeowners in Leiderdorp interested in making their homes more sustainable – through solar panels, heat pumps, or roof insolation, among others – are eligible for a Sustainability Loan.
The municipality offers this loan against low-interest rates, simultaneously, the homeowner gets to save on energy costs.
To calculate your total loan costs, click here.
Voorschoten
Currently, the municipality of Voorschoten does not have enough budget for sustainability loans or subsidies. That said, it is being looked at – for now, there are various subsidies and loans available for residents at the provincial and national levels.
Zoeterwoude
A subsidy meant for homeowners, tenants, and owner associations based in the municipality of Zoeterwoude. The following sustainable practices are eligible for receiving a subsidy:
Ground insulation, façade insulation, floor insulation, cavity wall insulation, roof insulation, window insulation (HR++ & HR+++ glass), solar panels, electric stove, green roof, vertical garden, rainwater collection (for toilet flushing & washing machine), rain barrel, and others.
To request, click here. (Dutch)
A loan for owner associations, and non-profit or societal organisations.
Installations or arrangements that are eligible for receiving this loan are: LED lighting, heat pump, solar panels, solar water heater, facade insulation, and roof insulation, among others.
To learn more, click here (Dutch)
Entrepreneurs & Businesses
If you have your own business and wish to learn more about the environment and energy in the Netherlands, visit the Rijksoverheid website for government information for entrepreneurs.
Environment and Energy Subsidies
