{"id":5631,"date":"2026-07-03T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:11:47","slug":"one-law-thousands-of-projects-does-the-environment-and-planning-act-really-accelerate-the-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/en\/one-law-thousands-of-projects-does-the-environment-and-planning-act-really-accelerate-the-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"One law, thousands of projects: does the Environment and Planning Act really accelerate the energy transition?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Publicatiedatum:\u00a0<\/strong>03-07-2026<br\/><strong>Auteur:<\/strong>\u00a0Styn Mulderink<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Netherlands wants to accelerate, but space, grid capacity, and public support are under pressure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two major transitions, one spatial system<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"907\" height=\"152\" data-src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5603 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"907\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.png 907w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-768x129.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 907px) 100vw, 907px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 1 January 2024, the Netherlands did not simply introduce a new law, it entered a new playing field. With the entry into force of the Dutch Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet), the legal framework governing the physical environment was brought together under a single, integrated system. Around 26 laws and hundreds of regulations were combined into one coherent framework, with the aim of making spatial decision-making simpler, more predictable, and more integrated.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the energy transition is accelerating on a scale that is fundamentally reshaping the Dutch landscape. The Environment and Planning Act does not directly determine where wind farms, hydrogen pipelines or new grid connections will ultimately be located, but it does provide the legal framework and procedures within which decisions about them are made. It therefore provides the arena in which national climate targets, economic interests, and local living environments come together. Within that arena, it becomes clear why energy projects move forward, slow down, or come to a standstill. The central question is not only what we want to build, but how we fit the energy system of tomorrow into the living environment of today.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A new system for spatial choices<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Environment and Planning Act replaces the old approach of treating areas such as spatial planning, the environment, water, and nature as separate domains. Instead, it introduces one coherent framework centered on integration, flexibility and participation. Within this system, the distinction between the environmental vision (Omgevingsvisie) and the environmental plan (Omgevingsplan) is important. The municipal environmental vision must be adopted by 1 January 2027 at the latest and provides direction for the long-term ambitions and policy objectives for the physical environment. The environmental plan then translates these ambitions into legally binding rules: what is permitted where, under which conditions, and what is not.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dutch government has set out the implementation framework in four Orders in Council (Algemene Maatregelen van Bestuur, AMvBs). The Quality of the Living Environment Decree (Bkl) contains substantive standards and instruction rules. The Living Environment Activities Decree (Bal) regulates environmentally harmful activities. The Buildings and Living Environment Decree (Bbl) contains technical building regulations, while the Environment and Planning Decree (Omgevingsbesluit, Ob) governs procedures, participation and administrative coordination. These different components come together directly in energy projects: a wind farm must comply with environmental standards, building regulations, permit procedures, and spatial assessments.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"233\" data-src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5605 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png 847w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-768x211.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dutch Regional Energy Strategy (RES) framework is an important practical example. Within the RES, thirty energy regions make agreements on large-scale renewable energy generation on land and the search for sustainable heat sources. These agreements can be translated into environmental plans and permit procedures through provincial and municipal environmental policy. Over time, environmental plans will replace all existing zoning plans and become the central legal framework for project developers. Until 1 January 2032, however, a transitional arrangement remains in place under which existing zoning plans continue to form part of the temporary environmental plan. This regularly slows down implementation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When preparing an environmental plan, the principle of a balanced allocation of functions to locations (ETFAL) is central. Municipalities must weigh a wide range of interests, including housing, nature, agriculture, and energy infrastructure. The energy transition shows just how politically sensitive these spatial choices can be. The environmental impact assessment (milieueffectrapportage, MER) makes explicit the issues that authorities must consider under the Act, including environmental consequences, alternatives, and spatial impacts. The energy transition reveals both the strengths and limits of the Act. It can make spatial choices more transparent and better substantiated, but it cannot resolve the political conflicts underlying them. <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From vision to permit<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Digital System for the Environment and Planning Act (DSO) is intended to support the Act\u2019s integrated approach by bringing together rules, permit procedures, maps, and policy information from different levels of government in one digital system. This gives project developers and other initiators a clearer overview of the rules and procedures that apply. In practice, however, the promised simplicity has not yet been fully achieved. Technical limitations, differences in implementation, and limited administrative capacity within municipalities demonstrate that the DSO is still under development. At the same time, questions from businesses are increasingly shifting away from the technical operation of the DSO towards the substance of the regulations themselves. Smaller municipalities in particular encounter practical difficulties, including limited access to specialist expertise, uncertainty about the reliability of local regulations within the system, and challenges in processing more complex applications.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DSO therefore shows that digitalization alone is not enough. Through monitoring and evaluation, the Environment and Planning Act offers opportunities to develop a more learning-oriented policy cycle. What remains underdeveloped, however, is a structural and reflexive link between lessons from implementation and the Act\u2019s core legal instruments. Current monitoring is mainly descriptive and operational, whereas reflexive monitoring requires joint interpretation, reflection, and adjustment. This becomes particularly important in relation to the project decision (Projectbesluit), a central instrument under the Act. Projects that cross municipal and provincial boundaries require intensive administrative coordination. In these cases, the DSO should not only make information accessible but also support an iterative way of working through reflexive monitoring. In this way, the DSO could contribute to a policy cycle in which lessons are continuously drawn, adjustments are made in time, and it becomes clear where spatial choices, administrative capacity and regulations are creating practical obstacles.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"223\" data-src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-7.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5627 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"830\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-7.png 830w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-7-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-7-768x206.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project versus area<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Powerport Moerdijk initiative shows where the limits of the system become visible. Several national energy challenges converge in this region. These include bringing offshore wind energy ashore through the Nederwiek III offshore grid connection (an underground 2 GW link between the North Sea and the national high-voltage grid), expanding the high-voltage network with a 380 kV substation, and developing hydrogen and CO\u2082 infrastructure through projects including the Delta Rhine Corridor and the Delta Schelde CO2nnection.Moerdijk is not simply the location of an individual project, but a major hub in the future energy system. It shows what the Environment and Planning Act can and cannot achieve. The Act provides an integrated assessment framework and instruments such as the project decision to coordinate complex projects that serve the public interest. However, it does not automatically guarantee broad prosperity, compensation, or local ownership.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For local residents, the issue is not limited to cables, substations, or pipelines. It concerns what all these developments together mean for their living environment, health, safety, and trust in their government. Powerport Moerdijk shows how efforts to accelerate national projects can create local tensions when residents feel that they are carrying most of the burden without sufficient influence, compensation, or long-term prospects.&#13;\nThe Groningen Energy Approach shows what the target of 50% local ownership, as set out in the Dutch Climate Agreement (Klimaatakkoord), can look like in practice. In Groningen, the Regional Energy Strategy, the provincial Multi-Year Program for Energy Infrastructure and Climate (pMIEK), the heat transition and the decarbonization of industry are not treated as separate processes but brought together within a single approach.&#13;\nIn doing so, Groningen recognizes that renewable energy generation, energy infrastructure, heat, and industry are closely connected, both spatially and administratively. This is what makes the approach relevant to the Environment and Planning Act. The energy transition requires more than a series of individual projects. It demands coherent choices about space, infrastructure, the economy, and the living environment.&#13;\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"202\" data-src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5607 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2.png 528w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The gap between national ambitions and regional implementation<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Energy System Plan (NPE) is an important attempt to introduce stronger national coordination at the level of the energy system as a whole. It looks ahead to the energy system of 2050 and connects decisions about energy supply, infrastructure, space, distribution, and energy conservation. In doing so, the national government recognizes that the energy transition can no longer be approached one project or one sector at a time.This requires greater coherence between programs such as the Cluster Energy Strategy (CES), the Multi-Year Program for Energy Infrastructure and Climate (MIEK), the Multi-Year Program for Infrastructure, Spatial Planning and Transport (MIRT), the Sustainable Industry Infrastructure Program (PIDI) and municipal environmental plans. However, these instruments are not yet being used sufficiently as one coherent system of governance.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5608 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.png 906w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-768x170.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Implementation still depends on translating this national direction into concrete spatial choices within provinces, municipalities, port areas, and environmental plans. Grid congestion illustrates this tension particularly clearly. Almost all provinces regard it as one of the main obstacles to the energy transition, yet solutions are still largely developed separately. Regional initiatives, such as the New Energy Taskforce, in which the Port of Rotterdam, TenneT, Stedin, and Deltalinqs collaborate, help entrepreneurs find tailored solutions for issues such as grid congestion and energy storage. At the same time, such initiatives show how dependent implementation remains on regional capacity and coordination.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the principle of a balanced allocation of functions to locations (ETFAL), public authorities must also continually decide how scarce space should be distributed. Tensions surrounding specialization, cooperation, and national coordination are also visible among seaports. In its 2025 coalition-formation letter, the Dutch Seaports Association (Branche Organisatie Zeehavens, BOZ) explicitly called on the national government to \u201cwork jointly with the seaports and industry at cluster level to accelerate the strengthening and delivery of the necessary infrastructure.\u201d In doing so, the BOZ sent a clear message to the national government. The energy transition is increasingly extending beyond the boundaries of individual regions, projects, and administrative responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same tension between acceleration, coordination, and local integration can be seen in participation. Initiatives such as the Guidance for Participation by Companies developed by Deltalinqs, the DCMR, and the Port of Rotterdam show that participation is being organized in an increasingly professional way. Yet the fundamental challenge remains the same: how do we move from allowing people to contribute to creating genuine, shared ownership?<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does the Environment and Planning Act actually accelerate the energy transition?<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potentially, yes. But not automatically. The Environment and Planning Act is designed to provide a more integrated and better-coordinated framework than the system it replaced. However, it does not itself determine which spatial choices are ultimately made, how local ownership is organized, or how intergovernmental cooperation works in practice. This is where the vulnerability of the energy transition lies: not in a lack of instruments, but in whether governments, businesses, and citizens are capable of using those instruments together and learning from the process.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grid congestion, competition between ports, and the tension between participation and genuine influence show that the allocation of space requires more than just the right instruments. When reflection and monitoring are no longer treated simply as compulsory elements of the system, but as iterative support for a learning-oriented policy cycle, the Environment and Planning Act can more effectively support integrated and workable decision-making.The DSO shows that digitalization alone is not enough. The transition from a digital portal to a learning system has yet to be made. The value of reflexive monitoring lies in ensuring that implementation is not assessed only after the fact, but that goals, choices, and bottlenecks are continually realigned throughout the process. In this way, the implementation of the energy transition is not only assessed against predetermined objectives, but also connected to the adjustment of environmental visions, programs, and environmental plans. Not measuring to assign blame, but learning in order to adjust.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The speed of the energy transition will not be determined by the quality of the law alone, but by the ability of governments, businesses, and society to work together within its framework. After all, the energy transition is not only about infrastructure, technology, or regulation. It is about the distribution of space, interests, and values. Who receives the benefits, and who carries the burdens? What kind of landscape will we leave behind for future generations?The Environment and Planning Act organizes how these interests are weighed. The choices that are ultimately made remain political.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"226\" data-src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5.png\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5613 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5.png 732w, https:\/\/venturngroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-5-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publicatiedatum:\u00a003-07-2026Auteur:\u00a0Styn Mulderink The Netherlands wants to accelerate, but space, grid capacity, and public support are under pressure. 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