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by ZeroGravitas 1765 days ago
It actually says renewable is over 11% of total energy. Total in this context often means "not just electricity generation" and the mention of biogas suggests they're talking about that but I don't read Dutch so hard to be sure. But jumping between those numbers is a common way to make a point seem stronger/weaker as required, the first link is very specifically talking about electrical energy consumed, so the two numbers are compatible depending on various definitions.

It lines up neatly with your initial 1% claim for example, except you specifically claim that it's 1% of electrical generation, not total energy.

Worth noting too that switching to renewables and electrifying actually reduce total energy, as more than half of it wasted as heat from combustion of fuels. Another popular statistical trick to make switching to renewables seem impossible.