Opposition MPs say the government’s new green energy plans, unveiled on Monday, do not go far enough.

Economic affairs minister Maxime Verhagen presented a package of 59 agreements between the government and energy firms on Monday which are supposed to enable the Netherlands to meet green energy targets.
These include an agreement with the energy companies to produce a fixed percentage of green energy by 2015 and a requirement that all coal-fired power stations make a partial switch to biomass for the next three years.
Criticism
But Labour, D66 and GroenLinks have criticised the failure to agree on what percentage of green energy power firms will have to supply. They are also unhappy that there is not enough commitment to offshore wind farms.
This means energy firms are likely to go for the easy option, such as biomass and wind farms on land, Labour MP Diederik Samsom says in the Financieele Dagblad.
GroenLinks MP Liesbeth van Tongeren says the plan is not ambitious enough and wants the government to commission independent research into its likely effects.
D66 MP Stientje van Veldhoven said the new plan is largely a recycled version of the previous government’s plans.