[1] In 2019, the wind turbines provided the country with 12% of its electricity demand during the year, a figure that is growing but somewhat below the average of 15% that wind power provides across the whole of the EU's electricity consumption. The Dutch rail network will run entirely on renewable wind energy by 2018 under a new contract signed by power company Eneco and energy procurement cooperative VIVENS. [2] The Dutch are trying to meet the EU-set target of producing 14% of total energy use from renewable sources by 2020, and 16% by 2023. How Dutch and German train and bus firms are taking British taxpayers for a ride, Solar panel researchers investigate powering trains by bypassing grid, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I have no wind records for the Netherlands but P.F. Temporarily, they might even have a surplus to sell. The Dutch railways network (NS) started using wind energy generated by the turbines owned by electric company Eneco two years ago when they signed a ten-year agreement. According to a government web page ( now removed!) Because theyre just one part of a wider grid, most train operators use electricity from a mix of different sources coal-fired generators, nuclear plants, hydropower or, in the case of Nederlandse Spoorwegen, exclusively from wind turbines. And half of Japan, poor devils. The story of Apple data centre in Denmark: 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. See the table below for the current situation. An extra live rail that has direct current flowing through it at all times. Our ambition is also to use more of our own resources (buildings, property) to generate sustainable energy. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains are being powered by renewable energy, namely from wind power. Eneco has made a point . By tapping into both domestic and foreign sources of wind power, it [ensures] that there is always sufficient green power available on the grid for rail companies, even if the wind is not blowing, the company explained. What is SDE? Roger, that map isn`t quite updated. Wind contributes 4,117MW, representing 13% of the capacity mix. But how does NS know the power it imports is wind? Everyone drawing energy from the grid is equal, on a physical basis. It doesnt add up, I would say about Euro 47 million is big money especially when you consider it`s for nothing.. But none of this wind power is directly connected to the NS rail system. 14 October 2009. UK Government to Announce New Energy Policies, Waking into our new volatile age of oil prices. By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. Established 1983. Active 2016. In total, NS consumes around 1.2 TWh of electricity to power its trains. . One windmill running for an hour can power one train across about 200km (120 miles). Web. The new Zuidwester site at the wind farm will have just 12 turbines and a total nameplate capacity of 90 MW. The Nuclear Humanist 1.75K subscribers 40 Dislike Share 814 views Jul 23, 2017 The Dutch Railway Corporation. Consumers in NL can choose suppliers that deliver 100% renewable, or 100% wind, or 100% dutch generated wind, etc. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . Figure 1: The Netherlands generation mix 2000-2013. The Dutch railway folks have PPAs to buy energy only from renewable energy producers, and thus claim, our passenger trains run on renewable energy, but fail to add on a contract basis. That's something. The Same Reason You Would Study Anything Else, The (Mostly) Quantum Physics Of Making Colors, This Simple Thought Experiment Shows Why We Need Quantum Gravity, How The Planck Satellite Forever Changed Our View Of The Universe. [2] [6] The wind park was developed off the coast of IJmuiden by Econcern and Eneco Energie, at a total cost of $522.3 million.[6]. from northern Maine to southern Florida, about 1800 miles in 0.01 second. In Norway 132,2 million guarantees of origin for hydro power were issued in 2014, corresponding to 132,2 Twh. Why cant, errr sorry, why Dont you? supply from NSs contracted windfarms,and if their supply drops below the train systems demand, The Netherland's national railway company, NS, has announced that all of its electric passenger trains are now 100 percent powered by wind energy. Even the two Dutch wind farms with which NS contracts directly for wind power, Noordoostpolder and Luchterduinen, are tied generally to the Dutch grid and not tied directly into the NS rail system. At a good wind site, the energy payback day could be in three years or less; in a poor location, energy payback may be never. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS spokesman, Ton . The Dutch government has set a target of 6,000 MW nameplate capacity of onshore wind power by 2020 (not met, as per the data above) and 4,450 MW of offshore wind power by 2023. HomerDixon.com. BTW, I have never felt deprived by having 60 Hz instead of 50Hz. And only half of the wind power NS has contracted for comes from the Netherlands. Only the Guardian has seen fit to publish a correction: An earlier version said all Dutch trains were now 100% powered by wind-generated electricity, according to the national railway company NS. The national railway company, NS, said that its renewables target had been met a year earlier than planned. Bach supplies data for Belgium, which should be a close analogy, and Figure 4 shows Belgian wind generation for September 2014: Figure 4: Belgian wind generation, September 2014, With an installed capacity of around 1850MW in this month the overall wind capacity factor was 11% and there were a number of occasions on which wind generation fell effectively to zero for hours on end. But you seem happy to gloss over the fact that Germanys cheap power comes from coal, nuclear and Russian gas. Even cheap electricity doesnt change anything. New wind farm deployment is based on the SER agreement that describes a plan for five years of tendering 700 MW per year. As Brightvibes noted, a decreasing and relatively small number of Dutch trains are still running on diesel. Illustration This quote appeared in a book edited by Homer-Dixon, but it was actually written by David Hughes. Consumer unions help by auctioning for grouped members. In total there were 3,004 MW of onshore wind power at the end of 2015. More than 12% of the Netherland's electricity is generated from renewable sources, mainly biomass and waste (5% of the total) and wind (7% of the total). http://elering.ee/cross-border-physical-flows/ The European high voltage grid connects Finland with Sweden but doesnt go through the Baltic States. [62], Installed land-based wind capacity (MW) by. Physically it makes no difference as you say, but as HeavyWeather pointed out above my money is now going to fund reactors not Energiewende, so Im happy. So I know that its true, just as if I had read it in the Guardian. This has already led to a savings of 1.43 billions kilograms of C02 emissions. In 2016, Dutch wind hit the headlines again, when a 700 MW offshore windfarm near the town of Borssele became the most cost-effective in the world. Snopes did not find evidence that Germany was experiencing a "total collapse" in wind and solar energy. Several commercial parties have now caught onto the PR value of claiming they are not getting government subsidies for their investment in renewable energy. All renewable energy gets paid the FIT out of the so-called SDE budget. Smaller turbines are often used for off grid, bespoke and community power internationally. Sign up for our email newsletter! Stuart When you dont know reality and cant speak German you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs . http://ast.lv/eng/power_system/current_situation_in_power_system/state_of_power_system/ Some of the nations that supply power to NS such as Germany, Belgium, and Finland, do generate wind power, but only in modest amounts. Built 1992 this nearshore wind farm had just 4 Nedwind 500 KW turbines based 1km to shore. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. Since 2015 there has been a trend towards the deployment and planning for large wind farms, both onshore and offshore, with a view to the approximate tripling wind power capacity from 2015 levels by 2023. Ah, so they're contracted for wind energy offset, not 100% wind energy powered. [5] This will contribute towards the Dutch target of 14% renewable energy use out of total energy use by 2020[10] and 16% by 2023. In this way, the Dutch railways aim to reduce the greatest negative environmental impact caused by CO2 in such a way that its demand actually contributes to the sustainable power generation in the Netherlands and Europe.. Just whatever serves your agenda. That would force other trains to halt. For example, in 2015, Burlington, Vermont, became the first city to announce it was running totally on renewable power. Electric trains also use regenerative braking, similar to whats found in hybrid and electric cars. These were often manufactured by lesser known wind turbine manufacturers, sometimes producing innovative products such as the Nedwind 2 blade turbine. 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The two Dutch wind farms that have contracted to sell power to NS (Noordoostpolder and Luchterduinen) are both connected directly to the Dutch grid, along with all the other power plants in the country, and NS draws its power from the grid: Figure 3: The Netherlands electricity grid. I read about them and saw a documentary film about them. Companies that want to claim that they run on green energy then just have to buy enough GoOs to cover their energy demand. Produced at least 14 models of 100. I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system. Gimme a break. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. In this way, the Dutch railways aim to reduce the greatest negative environmental impact caused by CO2 in such a way that its demand actually contributes to the sustainable power generation in the Netherlands and Europe.. ALL traction power for the Dutch railway network will come from wind turbines under a new energy contract signed on May 15 between power company Eneco and Vivens, an energy procurement joint venture which includes Netherlands Railways (NS), Veolia, Arriva, Connexxion and railfreight operators. Their original goal was to transition the trains to 100 percent renewable energy by 2018, but that target was moved up after reaching 75 percent in 2016. As Cleantechnica puts it: the GoO system allows for the transfer of the rights to call electricity green from those who actually generate renewable energy to those who dont but want to classify their power as such. So, 1) I didnt write the text, 2) the text itself is selectively quoted, and 3) the argument it makes, taken in isolation, is meaningless. Dutch trains to be wind-powered from 2018. Berlin Neighborhood to Experiment With Eliminating Parking Spaces, High PFAS Levels in Norwegian Arctic Ice Pose New Risk to Wildlife, Report: London Ultra Low Emissions Zone Succeeded in Curbing Harmful Air Pollution, Studies Find Louisiana Government Helped Create Cancer Alley, Prestigious Engineering Prize Awarded to Pioneering Solar Team, Leaked Video Shows Sediment Release in Deep-Sea Mining Test, After Record-Breaking 2022, China Told to Brace for Another Year of Weather Extremes, Seed Saving 101: Everything You Need to Know. Claims that Dutch trains running entirely on wind power are way off track. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. The supply of wind power to the Dutch grid will also not be constant. There are several Dutch turbine manufacturers that continue to manufacture both large and small installations for domestic and international clients. All day so far. I happen to know a little about the Dutch grid and its power networks: interconnectors to other countries have long been bottlenecks and monopolising capacity on them has proved to be quite profitable in the past to those who trade electricity in more than one country. NS claims 100% wind power because it has a contract with various wind farms to produce enough energy to power its rail system, but this is just an accounting transaction, writes author Roger Andrews. An all-electric heating is much easier to implement, few properly dimensioned wires and cheap heaters, while a gas heater needs specific know-how and is much more capital-intensive. The problem with the high costs for heating in France is the really poor quality of the dwellings, their poor insulating and cheap quality whatever means of heating one uses its literally money thrown away. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The green electricity we use is generated by new wind farms, which have been brought into service in phases. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. To aver otherwise displays ignorance or deception. The electrons vibrate at 60 cycles per second, 60 Hz, and travel at less than 0.1 inch/second. So while wind contributes about 7% to the Netherlands electricity generation it contributes about 11% to the countrys electricity consumption. If there was a utility providing KiteGen power I would sign up with them. Since 2017 , 100% of Dutch electric trains have been powered by wind energy. But if youre reading this and thinking How can trains run on electricity?, fear not. By using the brake to change the connections on a trains motors, they stop turning the wheels, slowing the train, and instead produce electricity that can be used elsewhere. Switch them back on by degrees. This is the cause of the very bright, blue-white spark you sometimes see near the third rail, as well as flickering carriage lights. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. Thanks for the correction Lars. Half of this electricity comes from the Netherlands, and the other half is imported from Sweden, Finland, and Belgium. The energy comes from new wind farms in the Netherlands and surrounding countries - and it's a lot. Wind power now supplies about 10% of Belgiums electricity, so power imported from the Belgian grid will be about 10% wind. Wind turbines feed electricity into the grid and the electric company credits them for the electricity. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/5329/Bothi_BEEThesis.pdf;sequence=1, When wind power is fed into a grid it becomes inextricably mixed with all the vibrating electrons from other generation sources to the point where there is no way of knowing where any power taken from the grid came from.. http://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/sistemos-duomenys/79. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. The company is also looking for a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The rationale is: If the Dutch railways sourced 100% of the 1.4 tWh of energy they needed each year from within the Netherlands, this would decrease availability and increase prices of green power for other parties. Were these conditions to repeat themselves now, and if NSs trains were powered exclusively by wind, they would almost certainly come to a halt. The question is: how long must a windmill generate energy before it creates more energy than it took to build it? I did not say wind energy is Idiot Power.". The construction of these wind farms along with others in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Finland helped NS and Eneco to hit their target so far ahead of schedule. There are very little poor people in Germany. You make one good point here which is that France has cheap electricity but expensive heating. [20], The Rachel Carson wind farm (also known as the Eemmeerdijk Wind Park.) Especially since there are no green electrons. If you would like to know more, click here. [1], By December 2013, 1,975 wind turbines were operational on land in the Netherlands, with an aggregate capacity of 2,479 MW. The two Dutch wind farms that have contracted to sell power to NS (Noordoostpolder and Luchterduinen) are both connected directly to the Dutch grid, along with all the other power plants in the country, and NS draws its power from the grid: Figure 3: The Netherlands' electricity grid. Its 50Hz in the Netherlands and most of the planet apart from (mainly) the US, Canada and half of Latin America. Electricity is electricity, electron charge transfer. The wind farm's 86 wind turbines will produce 1.4 billion kWh of electricity, enough. That would power a large proportion of all of the households in Amsterdam**. NS would only care for the environment as a PR stunt, not for the betterment of the planet. There is a DC interconnector (LitPol, 500 MW) between Lithuania and Poland now, and in addition the NordBalt (DC 700 MW) between Sweden and Lithuania. NS is the main public train in the Netherlands. This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 23:49. https://askjaenergy.com/2015/03/23/does-apple-not-want-truly-green-data-centers/. I am laughing. Not big money, even on 100TWh. The 600,000 Dutch that travel daily by train will now do so thanks purely to wind energy, with the national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) announcing that 100 percent of its. Even the two Dutch wind farms with which NS contracts directly for wind power, Noordoostpolder and Luchterduinen, are tied generally to the Dutch grid and not tied directly into the NS rail system. And how does NS justify this lesser claim? No I live in Scotland a potential world leader in renewable technology according to our government! wind power in the Netherlands generates 7.4 billion kWh (7.4TWh) of electricity annually, and according to BP the Netherlands total electricity generation in 2015 was 109.6TWh. I cant help feeling that inexperienced power traders at NS will have been taken to the cleaners at the expense of passengers. French people are bricoleurs they like to build their own house, thanks to the fact that if it has a surface below 175 m2 you dont need to go through an architect, you can do your own building plan. They hope to reduce the energy used per passenger by a further 35% by 2020 compared with 2005. If you want to be generous to NS, you can say that the BritNed interconnector is definitely being fed by the coal fired Maasvlakte power stations when it is delivering 1GW to the UK, because theyre right next door to the HVDC converters. Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy. (Although Eneco, NSs wind power procurer, claims that its wind farm portfolio guarantees sufficient capacity to cover such eventualities . The other half comes from newly built wind farms in . Thatd give us a consumption figure for the city of around 1.5 billion kWh. One wind turbine running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. Thats true, of course. More than wind and solar together right now. Surprisingly, even the electricity is sourced from windmill electric generato. Knew this was BS from the headline. [20] A few of the larger wind farms are listed here. Its of course a waste to install a separate grid with only 100% renewable electricity. An Eneco and NS joint website. According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. The 113,3 Twh exported far exceeds the actual exports of course, but were good business for the power companies selling their power twice. * Just an FYI, this official infographic shows that the scheme saves 1.4 billion kWh of electricity, which they say is the same as whats used by ALL of Amsterdams residents. The 129 MW Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm is located 23km off the coast between Zandvoort and Noordwijk cities in the Netherlands. When the train doesn't run, NS schedules buses instead. Green energy for train, bus and station In 2017, our trains in the Netherlands became the first in the world to run for 100% on wind energy, giving travellers the option of travelling without CO2 emissions. One thing I should have mentioned in the post is why NS doesnt get all its wind power from Netherlands wind farms. RE fans should understand that present mainstream RE technologies ( mostly PV and wind) require considerable real estate and in our small island one cannot travel very far without having a wind farm in view. Two of the models are still under production. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS. The energy required to power trains in the Netherlands comes from newly built wind farms in the Netherlands as well as in Belgium and Finland. 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