According to Statistics Netherlands, gross electricity generation was approximately 110 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2015. If you would like to know more, click here. Nevermind the entirety of it. TL;DR Dutch trains run on natural gas and coal power, not wind power. The real electricity they use is of course no more or less green than other companies on the same grid use. According to a government web page ( now removed!) Since 2017 , 100% of Dutch electric trains have been powered by wind energy. Impressively, this means their initial goal was met one whole year ahead of schedule. Overhead wires are best suited to tram and intercity services, whereas the more compact third rail option is preferred for underground trains. You still technically get your power from the electric company, but you pay little to nothing for it because you are supplying them electricity. Its standard accounting practice. from northern Maine to southern Florida, about 1800 miles in 0.01 second. if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. Consumers in NL can choose suppliers that deliver 100% renewable, or 100% wind, or 100% dutch generated wind, etc. Established 1983. In contrast to onshore wind farms, almost all turbines by January 2017 were situated in just a few large wind farms. Money doesnt matter to me. These wind turbines generate enough power to sustain the equivalent of 2.4 million homes. Wheres the renewable engy only socket? Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco. [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. Just fit smart controls where their systems draw power from the grid. Homer-Dixon, Thomas. Putting these numbers together indicates that only 10-15% of the electricity consumed annually by NSs electric trains will come from wind, with the rest a mixture that includes mostly Dutch gas and coal plus a small amount of Belgian and German coal, nuclear and lignite and maybe even a little German solar. 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. The Netherlands national railway company, NS, has announced all of its electric passenger trains (not the freight trains) are now 100% powered by wind energy. It is 100% powered by electric. [18], In the first week of December 2016, all 150 turbines of the new 600 MW Gemini offshore windfarm began producing power, and the project is expected to be fully commissioned by mid 2017. 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. 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. Therefore, entities enter into power purchase agreements, PPAs, with various other entities that produce, or resell energy, such as electric utilities. In fact, he allowed that a windmill situated at a good location could pay back the energy costs of creating it in under three years, but that aspect was omitted from the memed version of his quote: The concept of net energy must be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. 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. Electricity is electricity, electron charge transfer. 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. Rod, you must live in Albania E.ON wanted to put my tariff up from 9.79p to 13.87p. Wind turbines feed electricity into the grid and the electric company credits them for the electricity. Every electric train on the Dutch railways NS network now gets 100 per cent of its energy from wind energy. The commercials know that the public will probably think that the commercial parties are spending out of the goodness of their hearts, to save the planet. You can't pull line between your house and a windmill and hope you have 100% power for all the time. I find that the electrified portion of the Dutch railway network (Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS) runs on grid electricity that comes dominantly from fossil fuel generation (natural gas and coal). When "green" energy is generated the producer can sell a Guarantee of Origin certificate for the amount generated. This record was immediately beaten the following year with another 766 MW being added. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). As well as the technological problems discussed in this blog can we afford this destruction of our landscapes pursuing this RE dream. Still don't like the disingenious advertisement thought. The electrons that run the electrified portion of the NS system come from many sources, including wind, but also from coal, natural gas, and nuclear. The pickup shoes do occasionally lose contact anyway, albeit very briefly, at track junctions. If there was a utility providing KiteGen power I would sign up with them. All renewable energy gets paid the FIT out of the so-called SDE budget. I Did Not Say Wind Energy is 'Idiot Power.'" [10] [11] [12], 2015 5.3M views, 13K likes, 1.3K loves, 1.7K comments, 95K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from BrightVibes: Amazing news! 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. 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. I cant help feeling that inexperienced power traders at NS will have been taken to the cleaners at the expense of passengers. 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. Passing through the gates without traveling, Forgetting to check in or out and requesting refunds, Sustainable accessibility of the Netherlands, More information about NS buses that run on HVO. In 2006, the Egmond aan Zee Offshore Wind Farm was built, consisting of 36 Vestas V90 3MW turbines, totaling 108 MW, sufficient to light 100,000 houses. But none of this wind power is directly connected to the NS rail system. Gimme a break. 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The GoOs trade at a premium and help to subsidise the production. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. So the standard is that 100% renewable utilities buy or produce same amount of 100% renewable electricity they sell. The Netherland's national railway company, NS, has announced that all of its electric passenger trains are now 100 percent powered by wind energy. This year the country is due to start operating a 600-megawatt offshore wind farm, called Gemini. NS would only care for the environment as a PR stunt, not for the betterment of the planet. I paid 1100 Euros/year for a 150 m2 house, at 1000 m altitude on the French alps, heating, hot water, everything included. As of January 1, all electric passenger trains on the Dutch rail network have been run on wind energy, according to a statement from operator NS (via EcoWatch ). NS is the main public train in the Netherlands. The best of EcoWatch right in your inbox. Random House Canada. [9] As a first step, the government has determined 65 sites for offshore wind farms in the North Sea and IJsselmeer. So how does NS justify the claim that all Dutch trains run on 100% wind power? The 113,3 Twh exported far exceeds the actual exports of course, but were good business for the power companies selling their power twice. It feels to many like progress. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. Its worth remembering that data on wind and solar is available here: http://mylly.hopto.me/windineurope/wind_solar_20_countries_raw.zip. NO. As Brightvibes noted, a decreasing and relatively small number of Dutch trains are still running on diesel. The question is: how long must a windmill generate energy before it creates more energy than it took to build it? http://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/sistemos-duomenys/79. However, it seems officials have been able to beat that goal by an entire year. Illustration The headline: Netherlands Trains Now Running on 100% Wind Power. An Eneco and NS joint website. 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 that is coal fired power not going into the Netherlands grid. The turbines supply enough energy to power 2.4 million households. 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. 2015 was a record year for the countrys wind industry according to the Global Wind Energy Council, turbines capable of generating 586 MW of electricity were installed between January and December. 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. The next largest onshore wind farm is the Westereems wind farm located in Eemshaven in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. 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. Sign up for our email newsletter! According to Cleantechnica 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. This is about two-thirds of the system. Produced at least 14 models of 100. 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. The first two are feel good justifications that have no practical impact. But you seem happy to gloss over the fact that Germanys cheap power comes from coal, nuclear and Russian gas. Dutch electric trains are running on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy supplied by sustainable energy supplier, Eneco. How Sustainable and Ethical Is the Tuna at Your Supermarket? What happens where there is insufficient wind for the required duration to powerup the batteries? Hughes didn't make that statement of all windmills, and he allowed that some could recoup their construction costs in three years or less. "Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives) Paperback." Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). Belgium and Finland, wind farm portfolio guarantees sufficient capacity to cover such eventualities, http://www.sciencealert.com/all-electric-trains-in-the-netherlands-are-now-100-powered-by-wind-energy, http://www.djtelectricaltraining.co.uk/downloads/50Hz-Frequency.pdf, http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-e1-and-vs-t1/, https://askjaenergy.com/2015/03/23/does-apple-not-want-truly-green-data-centers/. Snopes did not find evidence that Germany was experiencing a "total collapse" in wind and solar energy. 2015 was a record year for new installations in the Netherlands with 586 MW added of which 180 MW were offshore. Can Renewable Portfolio Standards make RE Work? Whats the trick? Do the Netherlands trains really run on http://elering.ee/cross-border-physical-flows/, http://ast.lv/eng/power_system/current_situation_in_power_system/state_of_power_system/, http://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/sistemos-duomenys/79, Antidotes were hard to find this week as one cheering message after another was debunked only Positive News was buoyant | C 3000: antidote to gloom, International Energy Agency Electricity Production Statistics for OECD Countries 2014 2016 | Blogging about energy and transitioning to clean energy, Drone Strike on Saudi Arabia Knocks out 5% of Global Oil Supplies, Grazing, desertification and climate change. Their goal was to operate all NS trains on electricity produced by wind turbines by January 2018. 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. 90/month for the typical 3 person household. Dutch trains to be wind-powered from 2018. What is SDE? All day so far. You may have a battery bank to store some of it in case of an outage, but mostly it will go to the electric company and they credit you. Two of the models are still under production. How it then gets used depends on the city were in. When I travel, I just plug in my electric razor, which automatically converts it. To aver otherwise displays ignorance or deception. Wind farm output goes up again ? The largest wind farm in the Netherlands is Noordoostpolder with a capacity of 429 MW. First some details on the Netherlands electricity sector. Often only 100% renewable utilities are allowed to participate in the auctions. For example, in 2015, Burlington, Vermont, became the first city to announce it was running totally on renewable power. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. (CONTINUED), London Underground trains use two conductor rails to manage their electricity needs (Image courtesy [+] of BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images), In all cases, this regenerated electricity can be returned to the power line via the conductor rail. The city also gets about a third of its power from a large biomass plant. 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. These. Eneco has made a point . That is why half of the demand will be sourced from a number of new wind farms in Belgium and Scandinavia, which have been specifically assigned for this contract., http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featuremichel-kerkhof-of-eneco-discusses-the-dutch-rail-networks-renewable-revolution-4647194/. They say that this makes them the first rail company in the world that runs it fleet entirely on renewable energy. Claims that Dutch trains running entirely on wind power are way off track. [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. Apparently Eneco can make the wind blow to order.). Initially, trains in the Netherlands were set to run entirely on renewable energy by 2018. 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. I am laughing. 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. I believe in low carbon power, just that I also believe in security of supply, and with wind, or solar or tidal, you cant get it. But its a funny read. It seems that NS may be outsourcing costs as well as power. Thats true, of course. EV Use Is Growing, But Where Are The Chargers. A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. The electrons vibrate at 60 cycles per second, 60 Hz, and travel at less than 0.1 inch/second. There are very little poor people in Germany. 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. Nor should you you probably get shaved 20% faster than me! The fun would be that trains would soon be blocking the lines as power production fell. PV in Germany, and Energiewende in general, will go down in history as a useless waste of money, a financial disaster which will be used for decades to come as a bad example of ideology-driven energy policy. These systems are found on underground trains in Los Angeles, Auckland and Buenos Aires, among others. [20], The Rachel Carson wind farm (also known as the Eemmeerdijk Wind Park.) The wholesale price of GOs seems to be a mere 0.36/MWh or so. You know all that and simply fabricate a problem where there is non. 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. 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. According to DutchNews.nl, there's currently a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country. All wind amd solar energy gets a hefty FIT tariff in the Netherlands, intended to guarantee profitability of the energy investment over the long term (even if the electricity market price goes negative, for example). Active 2016.
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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. 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. An earlier version said all Dutch trains were now 100% powered by wind-generated electricity, according to the national railway company NS. Heres a fantasy as to how Nederlandse Spoorwegen could make their claims of only using wind power a reality. The truth is that its impossible to determine the source of electrons actually moving NS trains down the track. Half of this electricity comes from the Netherlands, and the other half is imported from Sweden, Finland, and Belgium. The story of Apple data centre in Denmark: When you dont know reality and cant speak German you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs . supply from NSs contracted windfarms,and if their supply drops below the train systems demand, However the electricity is delivered to the train, once its there, it is used to power lights, and air-conditioning, as well as the traction motors, which are what turn the trains wheels. [37] Other large wind farms are located in Delfzijl-zuid (43 MW),[30] Lelystad (46 MW), Terneuzen, (Koegorspolder, 44 MW), and Biddinghuizen (WP Kubbeweg, 34 MW). And how does NS justify this lesser claim? If the train line is a busy one, with small gaps between scheduled trains, the electricity produced by one helps to power the very next one that comes along. , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. However, early successes in rolling out the clean energy program . OK, these days its less than the bandwidth to your mobile, but mumble years ago it was the real deal. The farm consists of 43 Vestas V112 turbines of 3 MW capacity each. [16], In March 2018 the Dutch government announced that it will build between 2023 and 2030 several new windfarms with a total installed capacity of 7 gigawatt. The fund is paid for by adding a surcharge to household electricity bills. Companies that want to claim that they run on green energy then just have to buy enough GoOs to cover their energy demand. I would take it, then, that you are not among the poor and elderly who DO give a fig about money? Willem, forgive the pedantry, but its the second time you said it. Some of the newer larger wind farms currently under construction are replacing smaller turbines previously installed at given locations. Heating with electricity is their homemade problem that escalates bills for the poor with no alternative. Headlines like this make people feel good. Figure 1: The Netherlands generation mix 2000-2013. It's a bit of smoke and mirrors but it helps to subside more expensive forms of generation. Produced at least 3 models of outputs 100, 200, 250kW. ) can ever bring them off balance They dont understand, but they believe ! Its production also does not use any natural raw materials or food production resources. 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. Electric trains also use regenerative braking, similar to whats found in hybrid and electric cars. The Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm was officially opened in September 2015 and is a 50/50 joint venture between Dutch energy company Eneco and Japan's Mitsubishi corporation. 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. This year, Dutch commuters ditched fossil fuels to power their country's trains on 100% wind energy - and it's a grand idea that's catching on the world over. http://www.djtelectricaltraining.co.uk/downloads/50Hz-Frequency.pdf. Because Eneco, which contracts to supply NS with wind power, gets a Guarantee of Origin from the exporter under which the exporter confirms that the power came from wind and assigns the rights to it to NS. These newer and larger wind farms are making use of some of the largest wind turbines available, in particular in the case of Noordoostpolder the Enercon E-126 7500kW wind turbine, the largest onshore turbine available at that time. 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