Burlingtons biggest source of electricity is hydropower imported from across the region. These systems are found on underground trains in Los Angeles, Auckland and Buenos Aires, among others. NO. [21], In November 2011, the Dutch government decided to no longer fund 6 billion per year to maintain subsidized wind kWh at 0.18. Two of the models are still under production. [9] As a first step, the government has determined 65 sites for offshore wind farms in the North Sea and IJsselmeer. They have been working with Eneco, a sustainable energy supplier operating in the Netherlands, for several years. Hinkley C will have a footprint of 165 acres when operational and an equivalent footprint for onshore windturbines would be from 160,000 to 490,000 acres (dependent on power of turbines available) to produce the same power output over a year. 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. 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. There are several Dutch turbine manufacturers that continue to manufacture both large and small installations for domestic and international clients. 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. * 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. NS consumes 1.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity each year, which is the equivalent of 1% of the Netherlands' electricity consumption, or the total electricity consumption of all the households in Amsterdam. Deregulation Is Still Wrong for Consumers. Founded in 2004, Produced at least 12 models at 250, 500, 750, 900 and 2000kW. NS uses as much electricity as all Amsterdam residents combined, and its trains represent over 90 percent of commercial train travel in the country. Apart from the first rather obvious problems, anyone with the most basic understanding of electrical enrgy, as taught before 16 at school, would immediately know this was a wholly untrue technical assertion., Thats the whole point, Brian There are hardly any people with a basic understanding of electrical energy If most would have an understanding, there would be no renewables at all The whole charade would not even have started in the first place , Just as Otter says above, on different forums, lots of people are claiming Im 100% renewable (because I have a 100% RE contract with Essent, or Lampiris, or Belpower, or ENI, or ), Neither humour (so you got all the wind power this morning, because there was none left for me !, nor hard facts (for the 8-day period 27/12 03/01, that I just took a look at for another discussion, Wind and Solar provided a grand total of 4.6% of all electricity used in Belgium Was that enough for all of them 100% RE contracts ? Willem, you dont feel deprived by having 60Hz in the US. 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. Everyone drawing energy from the grid is equal, on a physical basis. It seems small compared with our renewables subsidies in the UK, which are of the order fo 150-450 times as big per MWh. [62], Installed land-based wind capacity (MW) by. This material may not be reproduced without permission. So even if this claim were true, it would require exponentially more windmills and/or solar panels to cover any significant portion of the continental United States. In contrast to onshore wind farms, almost all turbines by January 2017 were situated in just a few large wind farms. Half of this electricity comes from the Netherlands, and the other half is imported from Sweden, Finland, and Belgium. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. They would stop when there isnt any, obs. It sharply cut subsidies down to 1.5 billion, leaving private sector to carry over wind turbine investments should these be beneficial.[6]. With this, offshore wind energy makes an important contribution to achieving the increased climate target of 55% less CO2-emissions. And given that the company carries 600,000 people per day, the amount of electricity they need isnt trivial around 1.2 billion kWh of electricity a year. Intercity train arriving at Leiden Central railway station, Netherlands. This article was amended on 11 January 2017. So we in fact reached our goal a year earlier than planned, said Boon, adding that an increase in the number of wind farms across the country and off the coast of the Netherlands had helped NS achieve its aim. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. One wind turbine running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. And half of Japan, poor devils. The Dutch Railways Company NS is the world's first railway company that gets 100% of its energy from wind energy. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). In an anything goes era of news and social media, its not often that a post jumps off the page. This was 2015 data, so the wind fraction seems to have gone up from 7% to 10% but coal is really powering those trains at least 3x more than wind hey, coal powered trains, where have I heard that before? However, it seems officials have been able to beat that goal by an entire year. 15ct/kWh, 100%hydro, no nuclear or gray labeled power bought for pumping. Over the course of this year the average will be around 11%, equal to wind powers share of the Netherlands annual grid electricity consumption. New wind farm deployment is based on the SER agreement that describes a plan for five years of tendering 700 MW per year. This is the cause of the very bright, blue-white spark you sometimes see near the third rail, as well as flickering carriage lights. How much of the Netherlands electricity is supplied by wind? 2015 was a record year for new installations in the Netherlands with 586 MW added of which 180 MW were offshore. Bolthouse Farms Sued After Smoothie With 100% Fruit Juice Tests Positive for PFAS, EPA Announces $27 Billion Fund to Help Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities Transition to Renewable Energy, Derailed Train Cars in Ohio Were Not Labeled Hazardous, Wind Turbine Giant Proposes New York Factory That Would Create 420 Jobs and $500M in Local Investments. Instead of trains recovering energy for their own use, any excess power is directed to a centralized bank of lithium-ion batteries. However, this quotation, which comes from an essay written by earth scientist David Hughes, was cherry-picked and presented out of context to create a deliberately misleading version of what the author actually said. NS first announced their target for a wind-powered train fleet back in 2015, but they've hit their target a year earlier than planned - way ahead of their 2018 goal. Updated [5 February 2019]: Original version of this article attributed this quote to Thomas Homer-Dixon. Established 1983. If NS consumes an amount of gray electricity, than other consumers who pay for gray electricity will get same amount of wind electricity mixed in their gray electricity. Per Physics 101, once electricity is fed into the grid it travels, as electromagnetic waves, at near the speed of light on un-insulated wires, i.e. A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. 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Whilst there are a growing number of large onshore wind farms in Holland, most of the onshore farms in 2015 consisted of a large number of small wind farms, including many single installation turbines as well as farms of between 110 turbines. . if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. 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. Dutch trains to be wind-powered from 2018. Especially since there are no green electrons. But its a funny read. Earlier this week, one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), announced that, since 1 st January, every single one of its electric trains have been running on energy. Three strikes. The turbines have a hub height of 135 metres (443ft) and each new turbine can generate as much electricity as all 50 turbines of the old wind farm combined. [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]. 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. So, the fact that they can now reliably produce it from wind is big news. As Enecos account manager Michel Kerkhof pointed out, the key objective is to avoid procuring energy from the limited existing number of sustainable energy projects in the Netherlands, thus promoting renewable growth both domestically and Europe-wide., This partnership ensures that new investments can be made in even newer wind farms, which will increase the share of renewable energy, Kerkhof continued. So, as you can see, your silly view of the frrrench domestic heating habits are wrong, probably based on indoctrination from greenpiss or the like. As of Jan. 1, 600,000 daily train passengers have been traveling completely carbon neutral, according to an announcement from the Netherlands principal passenger railway operator, NS. The concept of net energy must be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. Eneco has made a point . In this video, NS CEO Roger van Boxtel is humorously strapped to a windmill blade as he touts his companys latest renewable energy achievement. Dutch Electric Trains Become 100% Powered By Wind Energy Technology Dutch Electric Trains Become 100% Powered By Wind Energy By Garrett Parker Posted on January 20, 2017 Updated on April 8, 2020 The Netherlands are called the Netherlands because so much of its landscape lies below sea level. 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. The next largest onshore wind farm is the Westereems wind farm located in Eemshaven in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. But there is no guarantee that the unfilled demand will be met by renewables, and in any event the 1.2-1.4TWh/year consumed by NS represents barely more than 1% of the Netherlands annual electricity consumption and a totally negligible fraction of European consumption. Their goal was to operate all NS trains on electricity produced by wind turbines by January 2018. This year the country is due to start operating a 600-megawatt offshore wind farm, called Gemini. There are very little poor people in Germany., http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/high-costs-and-errors-of-german-transition-to-renewable-energy-a-920288.html, The Spiegel FUD wont cut it. Calculated value from total installed nameplate capacity and actual electricity generation. This question generated a number of comments in the last Blowout so I thought I would take a quick look at it. Stuart But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. Grid connections for the Luchterduinen and Nordpoostpolder wind farms (locations approximate) are shown in black. one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), 700 MW offshore windfarm near the town of Borssele. And enjoy 30c/kWh household electric rates, as in Denmark and Germany, without there being one iota of measurable benefit to the planet? Began operating in 1990. BBC News. Rather they act like a component in an electric circuit. Just fit smart controls where their systems draw power from the grid. , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. NS operates about 5,500 train trips a day. TL;DR Dutch trains run on natural gas and coal power, not wind power. 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. Produced at least 14 models of 100. According to Railway Technology because it has a: green energy contract thought to be among the largest yet signed in Europe between power supplier Eneco and VIVENS, an energy procurement joint venture comprising Netherlands Railways (NS), Veolia, Arriva, Connexxion and rail freight firms, and because, NS and Eneco have carefully selected a list of wind farms that fulfil their criteria of being traceable, sustainable or renewable and additional, or new, and because, This partnership ensures that new investments can be made in even newer wind farms, which will increase the share of renewable energy. Often only 100% renewable utilities are allowed to participate in the auctions. Apparently Eneco can make the wind blow to order.). There is a tight social net up to the point where their transfer income pays for their existence. It is a special fund used by the Dutch government to make investments in renewable energy profitable. They say that this makes them the first rail company in the world that runs it fleet entirely on renewable energy. The Netherlands is the first country in the world where all electric trains are. Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of the Netherlands. I have no wind records for the Netherlands but P.F. As of October2022[update], wind power in the Netherlands has an installed capacity of 8,304 MW, 29.6% of which is based offshore. In fact, an investigation by Energy Matters finds that the electrified portion of NS mainly runs on electricity derived from coal and natural gas. The other thing most people (at least in the US) dont consider when they see stories like this: A country like the Netherlands is literally 1/3 the size of the state of Ohio. I did not say wind energy is Idiot Power.". The new Zuidwester site at the wind farm will have just 12 turbines and a total nameplate capacity of 90 MW. (Although Eneco, NSs wind power procurer, claims that its wind farm portfolio guarantees sufficient capacity to cover such eventualities . Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy. http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/interconnectors.png. https://askjaenergy.com/2015/03/23/does-apple-not-want-truly-green-data-centers/. I Did Not Say Wind Energy is 'Idiot Power.'" [19] In July 2016, the first two stages of offshore wind farm development for a combined 700 MegaWatt capacity in a water area near Borssele was awarded to DONG Energy at a price of 7.27 Euro cent per kilowatt hour for 15 years. 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. At near the speed of light, is there such a thing as national or regional energy mix, other than in our habit forming minds? The Netherlands currently has a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country, according to DutchNews.nl. According to a government web page ( now removed!) http://www.sciencealert.com/all-electric-trains-in-the-netherlands-are-now-100-powered-by-wind-energy. Money doesnt matter to me. According to Eneco, the power used by the carriers comes from newly built wind farms in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Belgium. You buy green energy elsewhere to offset your fossil fuels. Since 2017 , 100% of Dutch electric trains have been powered by wind energy. The wind farm's 86 wind turbines will produce 1.4 billion kWh of electricity, enough. 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. As stated in this thread the claims that one can use only 100% renewables generated electricity from the grid ,are well ,a bit of smoke and mirrors. . Nevermind the entirety of it. Smaller turbines are often used for off grid, bespoke and community power internationally. Not relevant here. It's a bit of smoke and mirrors but it helps to subside more expensive forms of generation. Its worth noting that it would be pointless to put wind turbines in poor locations, and its trivial, or meaningless, to say that a turbine would never pay back its embedded energy in a poor location. As shown in the table below installed capacity is dominantly fossil fuel, with natural gas making up 61% of total installed capacity and coal 15%. In August 2015, a meme posted to the Google+ group "The Secret Society of Anti-AGW-ACC Cultism," an organization that claims climate change is a hoax, reproduced the words allegedly written by Thomas Homer-Dixon, the Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, on the subject of windmills. It goes back to the start of 2016, and includes the Netherlands as well as Belgium and the Nordic countries (and Germany) that NS claim to be supplied by. 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. The city also gets about a third of its power from a large biomass plant. Temporarily, they might even have a surplus to sell. NS Dutch Railways has partnered with energy company Eneco to use its wind. According to DutchNews.nl, there's currently a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country. 01-13-17 Dutch Railways' Electric Trains Now Run On 100% Wind Energy Now 1.2 million people per day can commute without raising their carbon footprint. There are many reasons, of course, why NS would claim its trains run completely on wind power and even more reasons why many would celebrate this apparently breakthrough. [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. Belgium and Finland. This is about two-thirds of the system. Acquired by Lagerway in 1998. [10] [11] [12], 2015 The actual amount of green energy produced is unaffected.. Data from Frontier Economics. Its worth remembering that data on wind and solar is available here: http://mylly.hopto.me/windineurope/wind_solar_20_countries_raw.zip. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . The point about this is that it is just PR. You can't pull line between your house and a windmill and hope you have 100% power for all the time. In Norway 132,2 million guarantees of origin for hydro power were issued in 2014, corresponding to 132,2 Twh. You may opt-out by. An extra live rail that has direct current flowing through it at all times. I read about them and saw a documentary film about them. Sign up for our email newsletter! [5] In 2020 wind power provided 11.54% of the Dutch electricity generation (see table above) while solar power provided an additional 7.25% for a combined 18.79% - easily meeting the target without taking other renewable sources into account, even though the target for onshore wind capacity was not met. In other words, the two oldest sources of renewable power, water and wood, are carrying most of the burden for Burlingtons renewable achievement, not the sources that might come to mind when people read the headline. 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