A total of 4.5 million homes were made more sustainable. LED lights, solar panels and water-saving showerheads are the most popular. This is according to the fourth edition of Sustainable Living, a large-scale study by market research firm Multiscope among nearly 6,000 Dutch people.
Last year, Dutch households invested €14 billion in making their homes more sustainable. Consumers carried out a small part of the modifications themselves (12%). They outsourced most of it (88%). Respectively, this amounted to €1.7 billion and €12.3 billion.
Lamps, solar panels and showerheads most popular
In the top five most implemented retrofits, LED bulbs are still number one (58%), despite a slight drop. Solar panels (30%), water-saving showerheads (24%), energy-saving light bulbs (22%) and central heating/HR(e) boilers (21%) follow well behind. The Dutch generally outsource solar and heating retrofits.
4.5 million homes preserved
In the past 12 months, 54% of Dutch households made at least one modification to make their homes more sustainable, representing 4.5 million households. This number decreased from a year earlier (4.8 million), but remains higher than in 2021 (4.2 million). On average, people made the same number of adjustments per home as a year earlier (4.5). The Dutch performed nearly 20.5 million adjustments in the past 12 months, which is 200,000 fewer than the year before.
