The Netherlands has announced the auction winners for the 2025 round of the Stimulering Duurzame Energieproductie (SDE++) program, a government subsidy that offers multi-year financial support to companies working on large-scale energy projects, and approved 104 renewable energy projects totaling 841 MW in capacity.

The total SDE++ 2025 budget is €8 billion (~$9.13 billion). Applications were received for approximately €22 billion (~$25.11 billion) in subsidies under the program, with a total of €7.99 billion (~$9.13 billion) of claims being approved.

The approved projects include 33 ground-mounted solar projects of 575 MW with an approved budget of €262 million (~$300 million), 50 rooftop solar projects of 140 MW with a budget of €68 million (~$77.61 million), and three floating solar projects of 58 MW with a budget of €28 million (~$32 million).

The list of approved projects also comprised nine onshore wind projects totaling 66 MW with a budget of €129 million (~$147.23 million), and nine biomass-combined-generation projects totaling 2 MW, with a budget claims of €21 million (~$24 million).

Applications for subsidies of approximately €0.7 billion are under review.

The 2026 auction round will be open from October 27 to November 26, 2026.

Last September, the Netherlands announced it would withhold €277 million (~$326.75 million) that had been conditionally reserved for the second and third phases of the SolarNL project, aimed at developing domestic solar manufacturing capacity.

Initiated with a one-time public subsidy of €312 million (~$367.21 million), the SolarNL project was rolled out for developing and scale manufacture of three solar technologies: high efficiency silicon heterojunction cells, flexible perovskite foils, and integrated solar projects.

In 2023, the Netherlands presented a new climate package worth €28 billion (~$31 billion) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, in line with the European Union’s target of reducing net emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990.