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It focuses on where benefits for society can be attained and where concrete economic opportunities lie. The participants in Energy Transition have established seven themes - seven realistic possibilities for achieving a sustainable energy economy within 50 years. Market participants, scientific and civil organizations, and government agencies are taking the lead in each of these seven themes:

1. Biobased Raw Materials
2. Sustainable Mobility
3. Chain Efficiency
4. New Gas
5. Sustainable Electricity
6. Energy in the Built Environment 
7. The ‘Greenhouse as Energy Source’          

Seven themes 

Each theme is embodied by a platform consisting of representatives from market participants, scientific and civic organizations and the government. The platforms are public-private frameworks of cooperation that focus on realizing a sustainable energy supply. The platforms are focusing on:

1. Biobased raw materials. In the future, we will use plant-based raw materials more and more often to supply our needs for energy, transport fuels, chemicals, plastics, building materials, etc. The platform focuses on the production of such raw materials and their conversion for use in the desired application. 
2. Sustainable Mobility. This platform focuses on the transition to alternative motor fuels and the adaptation of vehicle technology The aim is to accelerate the market introduction of alternative motor fuels, such as natural gas and bio-fuels, as well as new, environmentally clean vehicles. Sustainable mobility also focuses on vehicle guidance systems to prevent traffic jams. 
3. Chain efficiency. This platform is tackling energy use at the chain level - organizing production chains more intelligently. Chain efficiency will develop into a basic theme of Dutch industry.
4. New Gas. This platform’s focus is on more efficient applications of natural gas and other fossil fuels. The platform also focuses on development of biogas and hydrogen applications.
5. Sustainable electricity. This platform is developing new, clean and reliable sources of electricity, such as offshore wind energy and energy from biomass. The Dutch are experienced builders of offshore structures and windmills.
6. The built environment. The platform is working on new technology to make heating and cooling more sustainable and climate-neutral. Buildings can contain their own energy sources for heating and cooling by using, for example, solar energy and underground water storage.  
7. The ‘Greenhouse as Energy Source’. The Dutch greenhouse horticulture sector has set the objective for 2020 that newly constructed greenhouses should be practically independent from fossil energy. The Platform has further detailed and enhanced this ambition for 2020. As from 2020, the greenhouse horticulture sector intends to practice climate-neutral growing in newly constructed greenhouses, strongly reduce the use of fossil fuels and make the greenhouses suppliers of renewable heat and renewable electricity.
   

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