3.7 percent of homeowners in Drenthe received a subsidy for making their home more sustainable in the first half of 2023. This made Drenthe the province in which relatively the most subsidies were granted, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Statistics Netherlands has looked at the Sustainable Energy and Energy Saving Investment Subsidy (ISDE), with which you can request money back after, for example, having a heat pump, solar boiler or electric cooking facility installed. 115,000 homes were made more sustainable with this subsidy in the first half of last year.
Homeowners who applied for this subsidy received an average of 1,170 euros. Drenthe (1,310 euros) received the highest subsidy amount on average after Zeeland (1,320). In the Randstad provinces this amount was a few hundred euros lower.
The most popular measures in Drenten were installing a heat pump, extra insulating windows and floor and cavity wall insulation. 5,265 homes in Drenthe received a sustainability subsidy in the first half of last year, which amounts to 3.7 percent of the number of houses eligible for the subsidy.
Richer households used the subsidy pot more often than families with a lower income. Of homeowners with an income higher than 100,000 euros per year, 3.7 percent of the houses were made more sustainable. For incomes below 45,000 euros per year, 1.8 percent applied for this subsidy fund.
See here what Drenthe use the sustainability subsidy for: