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Almost 90,000 home batteries were added in the Netherlands in 2025. More than half of new sales are now plug-in units, and a large share of those appear in no official register at all. Not because they are exempt: reporting is mandatory, below 800 watts too. Here are all the numbers, all the sources and the calculation most sellers skip.
Nearly every home battery in the Netherlands contains Chinese cells. But what does that actually mean? A deeper investigation into the supply chain, the real costs of importing yourself, and why the answer is more nuanced than 'Chinese = bad'.