Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy. Obvious to the meanest intelligence. Wind contributes 4,117MW, representing 13% of the capacity mix. Its of course a waste to install a separate grid with only 100% renewable electricity. That would meet approximately 75% of the countries electricity needs. An earlier version said all Dutch trains were now 100% powered by wind-generated electricity, according to the national railway company NS. Ah, so the train really runs on smoke & mirrors. The first two are feel good justifications that have no practical impact. If not, Im sure their stranded customers would be happy to explain it to them. The real electricity they use is of course no more or less green than other companies on the same grid use. The evidence speaks for itself. 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. 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. http://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/sistemos-duomenys/79. When challenged on its claim, NS clarified that only the electrified portion of its system runs completely on wind power. According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. 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. They arent directly powered by wind. Harried Dutch commuters may not be entirely cognisant of the fact . 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. Especially since there are no green electrons. They say that this makes them the first rail company in the world that runs it fleet entirely on renewable energy. Yeap. Were these conditions to repeat themselves now, and if NSs trains were powered exclusively by wind, they would almost certainly come to a halt. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. I see the logic behind the options for supply that can be taken, but how can any householder take a contract for 100% wind power when often this is not available, certainly if a large number opt for green power. Only about 2% of Finlands generation mix is wind, and by the time it passes through the Finnish, Swedish and German grids on its way to the Netherlands it will effectively have disappeared. Wind farm output goes up again ? 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. However, it seems officials have been able to beat that goal by an entire year. Just whatever serves your agenda. [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. Impressively, this means their initial goal was met one whole year ahead of schedule. Eneco has agreed to supply 1.4 terawatt hours (TWh) of wind-sourced power by 2018, which is roughly the same amount of energy consumed by all the households in Amsterdam, the capital city. Wind power from Finland can be discounted. (Although Eneco, NSs wind power procurer, claims that its wind farm portfolio guarantees sufficient capacity to cover such eventualities . Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. There is, however, a problem. The third that by purchasing wind power that would otherwise have gone elsewhere NS is leaving the door open for more wind projects and more CO2 reductions is the only one that offers any tangible benefits. Not big money, even on 100TWh. 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. When the train doesn't run, NS schedules buses instead. 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.. The story of Apple data centre in Denmark: The Netherlands is also well prepared for a significant rise in the production of intermittent power from wind energy by good linkages to its neighbours via high voltage cables enabling power to be imported or exported as required. Offsets. 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. Dutch electricity company Eneco won a tender offered by NS two years ago and the two companies signed a 10-year deal setting January 2018 as the date by which all NS trains should run on wind energy. The Netherlands is the first country in the world where all electric trains are. We do something like this California with biogas. 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 ? Does anyone even believe that? A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. If its a less busy line, some of the electricity is stored in batteries on the train. But it really doesnt matter which countries the Finnish wind power passes through on its way to the Netherlands. Intercity train arriving at Leiden Central railway station, Netherlands. Built 1992 this nearshore wind farm had just 4 Nedwind 500 KW turbines based 1km to shore. Heating with electricity is their homemade problem that escalates bills for the poor with no alternative. These include the 580km NorNed submarine cable (700 MW) link to Norway, the 1,000 MW BritNed cable link to the United Kingdom and the COBRA cable link to Denmark (700 MW). The electrons vibrate at 60 cycles per second, 60 Hz, and travel at less than 0.1 inch/second. How much of the Netherlands electricity is supplied by wind? This is hardly enough to make a big deal about. As of January 1, all trains in the Netherlands now run entirely on wind power (that is to say electricity generated by wind farms, not masts and sails). 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. But none of this wind power is directly connected to the NS rail system. These systems are found on underground trains in Los Angeles, Auckland and Buenos Aires, among others. This is about two-thirds of the system. The farm was dismantled after 22 years service in 2016. power for over 400,000 households every day, a figure roughly equivalent to the number of households in the Northern Netherlands.[13]. Several commercial parties have now caught onto the PR value of claiming they are not getting government subsidies for their investment in renewable energy. These sites are also surveyed centrally by the government allowing developers to avoid costly and multiple surveys.[11]. 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. I do not know why this is, maybe a different ethane ratio? Works for me, and they were cheaper than EON too. Many of the numerous smaller and older wind farms in the Netherlands consist of much smaller turbines compared to those typically deployed today. The company is also looking for a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It feels to many like progress. UK Government to Announce New Energy Policies, Waking into our new volatile age of oil prices. And only half of the wind power NS has contracted for comes from the Netherlands. Companies that want to claim that they run on green energy then just have to buy enough GoOs to cover their energy demand. The Netherlands, aka Windmill Country, is now operating 100 percent of its electric trains with wind energy. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). 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. Headlines like this make people feel good. Once its in the network, there are three main options for getting the electricity to the trains themselves: Youve probably noticed at least one of these options on your rail journeys. Its own wind farms, built in the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, and Sweden, aim to generate enough energy to fulfill NS's demand of about 1.4 terawatt-hours for 2017 (enough to power a million . 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. As Brightvibes noted, a decreasing and relatively small number of Dutch trains are still running on diesel. Active 2020. And of course no such connections exist. 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. Really funny, as it cuts it both ways when you dont know reality and cant speak French you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs or the greenpiss propaganda leaflets. But you can arrange for a proxy burn of biogas in another state, say Colorado, and buy the rights to say you consumed it. NS uses as much electricity as all Amsterdam residents combined, and its trains represent over 90 percent of commercial train travel in the country. For example, in 2015, Burlington, Vermont, became the first city to announce it was running totally on renewable power. I would take it, then, that you are not among the poor and elderly who DO give a fig about money? What is clear is that most of those electrons didnt originate from wind turbines. These were often manufactured by lesser known wind turbine manufacturers, sometimes producing innovative products such as the Nedwind 2 blade turbine. But lets be real. 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%. I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system. 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. Belgium and Finland. 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. 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. The best of EcoWatch, right in your inbox. 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. And meanwhile the Netherlands electrified railways continue to be powered dominantly by fossil fuel electricity. Money doesnt matter to me. There are several Dutch turbine manufacturers that continue to manufacture both large and small installations for domestic and international clients. I paid 1100 Euros/year for a 150 m2 house, at 1000 m altitude on the French alps, heating, hot water, everything included. Yeah, that'show energy works. Instead of trains recovering energy for their own use, any excess power is directed to a centralized bank of lithium-ion batteries. Only 18,9 Twh were bought in Norway, the rest sold abroad. Either figure comfortably exceeds the amount of electricity NS uses to power its electric trains, which is variously quoted as either 1.2 or 1.4TWh/year. The company said all electric trains were now powered by wind energy. How much wind? While it was originally used to pump water or grind grain, wind is now helping Dutch commuters get to work. In Norway 132,2 million guarantees of origin for hydro power were issued in 2014, corresponding to 132,2 Twh. [1], The Dutch government has expressed the aspiration to build 4.450 MW of offshore wind power by 2023[5] which will have a considerable impact on the Dutch electricity grid, operated by TenneT. According to Cleantechnica Its 50Hz in the Netherlands and most of the planet apart from (mainly) the US, Canada and half of Latin America. This quote appeared in a book edited by Homer-Dixon, but it was actually written by David Hughes. France has an even bigger problem with energy poverty even though her supposedly cheaper power. The electrons essentially vibrate in place at 60 Hz. 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. [9] As a first step, the government has determined 65 sites for offshore wind farms in the North Sea and IJsselmeer. The 113,3 Twh exported far exceeds the actual exports of course, but were good business for the power companies selling their power twice. Heres a fantasy as to how Nederlandse Spoorwegen could make their claims of only using wind power a reality. It sharply cut subsidies down to 1.5 billion, leaving private sector to carry over wind turbine investments should these be beneficial.[6]. In total there were 3,004 MW of onshore wind power at the end of 2015. In addition, the use of conductor rails sets a speed limit on trains of about 160kph (100mph) above this, the metal contact blocks (called pickup shoes) can lose contact with the rail and result in a drop in power. Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of the Netherlands. Surprisingly, even the electricity is sourced from windmill electric generato. Nevermind the entirety of it. But in reality, the commercial parties are making a double killing: getting free money throughout the FIT contract (paid for 100% by households) *and* profiting from the PR value of presenting themselves as selflessly investing their own money in wind and solar energy for the planet. And half of Japan, poor devils. Its standard accounting practice. [3], In March 2022, the Dutch government announced that by 2030 offshore wind was to become the Netherlands' biggest power source, aiming at 21 GW of installed capacity.[4]. 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. Homer-Dixon, Thomas. Yes, they are called dwarves, or possibly hobbits. One wind turbine running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . Many small scale wind farms exist throughout the Netherlands which bear testament to earlier models of wind turbines and lesser known manufacturers which provided a range of niche products, ranging in size and power output. EV Use Is Growing, But Where Are The Chargers. One windmill running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. Were starting to see this ploy more often in recent years. Their goal was to operate all NS trains on electricity produced by wind turbines by January 2018. The turbines supply enough energy to power 2.4 million households. 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, Andrews explains. For offshore wind a new system of tendering is under development. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Imports from the German grid, however, will contain about 14% wind power, although not wind power that NS has contracted for. 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. Half of that total is expected to come from foreign sources in Scandinavia and elsewhere, with the rest generated in the Netherlands. Such as happened earlier this year in the UK when we had several days of around only 300MW of total metered wind power. Do the claims about Netherlands trains also require further explanation? NS would only care for the environment as a PR stunt, not for the betterment of the planet. Up until the Westereems Wind Park was commissioned the largest onshore wind farm was the Princess Alexia Windpark in Zeewolde (122MW),[36] consisting of 36 REpower turbines and a 3.2MW/33MWh battery storage power station of BMW i3 batteries. Its production also does not use any natural raw materials or food production resources. 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. Random House Canada. An extra live rail that has direct current flowing through it at all times. This is a BETA experience. Two of the models are still under production. As his statements were presented in that meme, Homer-Dixon appeared to have asserted that windmills never produce as much energy as is expended in building them: The quotations selectively employed in the meme were taken from Homer-Dixon's 2009 book Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives). 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. For high-speed trains, overhead wires are the better choice. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. The 129 MW Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm is located 23km off the coast between Zandvoort and Noordwijk cities in the Netherlands. This article was amended on 11 January 2017. Willem, you dont feel deprived by having 60Hz in the US. A book co-edited by Thomas Homer-Dixon contained a passage stating that windmills "might never generate as much energy as was invested in building [them]." But its a funny read. 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. from northern Maine to southern Florida, about 1800 miles in 0.01 second. Produced at least 12 models of 2000, 4000, 4500, and 5000kW. On insulated wires, the speed, on average, is about 2/3 the speed of light. http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/interconnectors.png. Reply to Rod above went to the wrong place and left off the smiley after Albania. Often only 100% renewable utilities are allowed to participate in the auctions. So pick your choice I cant help feeling that inexperienced power traders at NS will have been taken to the cleaners at the expense of passengers. 22 May 2018. The US city of Philadelphia has taken regenerative braking to a new level though. 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. Other peoples Money doesnt matter to you.. wrong! it MATTERS to those like heavyweather all savvy investors who have installed PV on their rooftops, PV which funnels 29 cEuro/kWh (on average) for each useless and counter-productive kWh which they dump on the network sums charged on the electricity bill of all the OTHER germans, of course! 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. "Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives) Paperback." 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. [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. Transmission costs of 1.4 eurocent/kWh is to be added as TenneT is required to take power from sea to shore. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of. Electricity is electricity, electron charge transfer. 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. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . So while wind contributes about 7% to the Netherlands electricity generation it contributes about 11% to the countrys electricity consumption. However, early successes in rolling out the clean energy program . You still technically get your power from the electric company, but you pay little to nothing for it because you are supplying them electricity. On-board energy storage systems, such as batteries; An overhead wire that the train connects to; or. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. If it was based on the former there would a strong possibility that these companies could be oversubscribed with customers who may not receive true renewable energy when the wind does not blow. [21], In November 2011, the Dutch government decided to no longer fund 6 billion per year to maintain subsidized wind kWh at 0.18. http://electronicdesign.com/power/google-s-renewable-energy-plan-what-it-seems, Telling fibs has become so fashionable that everyone and his train or server wants to be in on it. 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. Over the course of this year the average will be around 11%, equal to wind powers share of the Netherlands annual grid electricity consumption. 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. This type of fuel is considered to be climate-neutral, as it does not cause CO2 emissions. An Eneco and NS joint website. The only way we could get close would be to take this measure of the citys population (813, 562) and this value for electricity consumption per person (1800 kWh). What the Netherlands gets when it imports it is the energy mix on the German grid. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS spokesman,. [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. Ah, so they're contracted for wind energy offset, not 100% wind energy powered. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. (my emphasis). 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. As Hughes observed, his point was that "the concept of net energy is crucial if we want to find a policy that will see us through the Energy Sustainability Dilemma," not that windmills should be eschewed for using up more energy than they ever create. Some of the nations that supply power to NS such as Germany, Belgium, and Finland, do generate wind power, but only in modest amounts. http://www.sciencealert.com/all-electric-trains-in-the-netherlands-are-now-100-powered-by-wind-energy. [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. Thatd give us a consumption figure for the city of around 1.5 billion kWh. Rather they act like a component in an electric circuit. The wholesale price of GOs seems to be a mere 0.36/MWh or so. I have no wind records for the Netherlands but P.F. NS has signed a contract with Eneco to guarantee the supply of this electricity. London Undergrounds system provides 600V of direct current to their conductor rails, still enough to be potentially lethal. The claim by the Dutch railway network, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), is almost entirely a sleight of hand. It becomes inextricably mixed with all the electromagnetic waves of the other. The city also gets about a third of its power from a large biomass plant. Sign up for our email newsletter! Our ambition is also to use more of our own resources (buildings, property) to generate sustainable energy. These. One such example is the largest wind farm in Holland, Noordoostpolder, which is installing industrial scale wind turbines such as the new Enercon onshore wind turbines, at the time the largest onshore turbines in the world rated at 7500kW nameplate capacity. NS operates about 5,500 train trips a day. [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. Good for Nederlandse Spoorwegen. [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]. 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. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The Dutch Railways Company NS is the world's first railway company that gets 100% of its energy from wind energy. By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. [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). 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. With wind power usage in 2015 equal to 12.5 billion kWh, Dutch demand for wind power amply exceeds supply. Hughes didn't make that statement of all windmills, and he allowed that some could recoup their construction costs in three years or less. You may opt-out by. 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). So how does NS justify the claim that all Dutch trains run on 100% wind power? But its a funny read. 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. 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. Still don't like the disingenious advertisement thought. The Dutch government is looking to ramp up the nations share of renewable energy from 4 percent in 2014 to 16 percent in 2023. 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. Started operation in 2001 and is developing a 6,000kW two blade downwind turbine. Wheres the renewable engy only socket? All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . They would stop when there isnt any, obs. 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