Active 2016. Nevermind the entirety of it. The Dutch government is looking to ramp up the nation's share of renewable energy from 4 percent in 2014 to 16 percent in 2023. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of. Often only 100% renewable utilities are allowed to participate in the auctions. Instead of trains recovering energy for their own use, any excess power is directed to a centralized bank of lithium-ion batteries. [61] A further 228 MW of installed capacity will be added when completed. 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. Most wind power is produced in the province of Flevoland. The story of Apple data centre in Denmark: Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco. 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. Its standard accounting practice. [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. [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. Web. . [61], In 2008, a second, somewhat larger offshore wind farm was built: the Princess Amalia Wind Farm, consisting of 60 Vestas V80 2MW turbines totaling 120 MW, sufficient to power 125,000 homes and help the Netherlands cut 225,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. 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. Grid connections for the Luchterduinen and Nordpoostpolder wind farms (locations approximate) are shown in black. (my emphasis). Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. http://elering.ee/cross-border-physical-flows/ Electricity is electricity, electron charge transfer. 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.. You buy green energy elsewhere to offset your fossil fuels. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. 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. 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. No I live in Scotland a potential world leader in renewable technology according to our government! So, the fact that they can now reliably produce it from wind is big news. Three strikes. (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. 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/. So pick your choice 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. When I travel, I just plug in my electric razor, which automatically converts it. Only 18,9 Twh were bought in Norway, the rest sold abroad. What is clear is that most of those electrons didnt originate from wind turbines. NS and Eneco first announced their plan of a wind-powered railway in 2015 in order to drastically slash train ride emissions. See the table below for the current situation. For NS to use only wind power from wind farms to power its rail system the wind farms must be connected directly to NSs railways. The first two are feel good justifications that have no practical impact. Wind contributes 4,117MW, representing 13% of the capacity mix. Sign up for our email newsletter! Electric trains also use regenerative braking, similar to whats found in hybrid and electric cars. But of course even two-thirds of the NS system doesnt run completely on wind power. NS operates about 5,500 train trips a day. Reply to Rod above went to the wrong place and left off the smiley after Albania. 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. An extra live rail that has direct current flowing through it at all times. quite an amount of work youve done there, It doesnt add up ! By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. Smaller turbines are often used for off grid, bespoke and community power internationally. You make one good point here which is that France has cheap electricity but expensive heating. [21], In November 2011, the Dutch government decided to no longer fund 6 billion per year to maintain subsidized wind kWh at 0.18. Deregulation Is Still Wrong for Consumers. 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]." The energy comes from new wind farms in the Netherlands and surrounding countries - and it's a lot. 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. . 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). In fact, an investigation by Energy Matters finds that the electrified portion of NS mainly runs on electricity derived from coal and natural gas. 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. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). You may opt-out by. These were often manufactured by lesser known wind turbine manufacturers, sometimes producing innovative products such as the Nedwind 2 blade turbine. Homer-Dixon, Thomas. 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. If thats the case, it marks a major turning point in the story of renewables. 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). 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. How much wind? 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. A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. 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 national railway company, NS, has announced all of its electric passenger trains (not the freight trains) are now 100% powered by wind energy. 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. For example, in 2015, Burlington, Vermont, became the first city to announce it was running totally on renewable power. The real electricity they use is of course no more or less green than other companies on the same grid use. 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. Stations are heated using heat exchangers, green gas or green electricity. And half of Japan, poor devils. Willem, forgive the pedantry, but its the second time you said it. But if youre reading this and thinking How can trains run on electricity?, fear not. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. Companies that want to claim that they run on green energy then just have to buy enough GoOs to cover their energy demand. 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. supply from NSs contracted windfarms,and if their supply drops below the train systems demand, 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. Built 1992 this nearshore wind farm had just 4 Nedwind 500 KW turbines based 1km to shore. Since 2019, the buses have been powered by HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) made from processed deep fryer oil and industrial fats. 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? 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! The farm consists of 43 Vestas V112 turbines of 3 MW capacity each. Rather they act like a component in an electric circuit. 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. As Brightvibes noted, a decreasing and relatively small number of Dutch trains are still running on diesel. When you dont know reality and cant speak German you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs . BBC News. The company aims to further reduce consumption by 2 percent a year with an energy efficiency program, with total consumption already reduced by 30 percent since 2005. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. The Dutch government is looking to ramp up the nations share of renewable energy from 4 percent in 2014 to 16 percent in 2023. Over the course of this year the average will be around 11%, equal to wind powers share of the Netherlands annual grid electricity consumption. 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. Two of the models are still under production. It doesnt add up, I would say about Euro 47 million is big money especially when you consider it`s for nothing.. The Netherlands is the first country in the world where all electric trains are. Active 2020. 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Ive included a (slightly-edited) mini-excerpt from my recent book, Science and the City, to explain: Electric locomotives dont have conventional engines. The Nuclear Humanist 1.75K subscribers 40 Dislike Share 814 views Jul 23, 2017 The Dutch Railway Corporation. Since 2017 , 100% of Dutch electric trains have been powered by wind energy. Its our offshore coal burn. if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. Produced at least 19 models at 250, 750, 1500, 2000, 2300, 2500, 2600, 3000, 3600, 3800, 4000 and 4500kW. [14] A second hand market for turbines also exists, which could grow as older turbines are replaced by larger newer ones. [1], By December 2013, 1,975 wind turbines were operational on land in the Netherlands, with an aggregate capacity of 2,479 MW. 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. Surprisingly, even the electricity is sourced from windmill electric generato. The role of the third (or conductor) rail is to ensure that the electricity is always directly available, so its installed alongside, or in between, the pair of running rails (Keep an eye out for it when youre next on an underground train). The US city of Philadelphia has taken regenerative braking to a new level though. The turbines supply enough energy to power 2.4 million households. NO. 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. 5.3M views, 13K likes, 1.3K loves, 1.7K comments, 95K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from BrightVibes: Amazing news! In total, NS consumes around 1.2 TWh of electricity to power its trains. 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. What the Netherlands gets when it imports it is the energy mix on the German grid. 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. Initially, trains in the Netherlands were set to run entirely on renewable energy by 2018. Thats true, of course. The evidence speaks for itself. [17] Where the parks will come and how they will be built is still being discussed. Supply from all generators is monitored in any case, all youd have to do is add up the 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. Wind power now supplies about 10% of Belgiums electricity, so power imported from the Belgian grid will be about 10% wind. 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 . Offsets. 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). The headline: Netherlands Trains Now Running on 100% Wind Power. In total there were 3,004 MW of onshore wind power at the end of 2015. Produced at least 14 models of 100. At near the speed of light, is there such a thing as national or regional energy mix, other than in our habit forming minds? It's a bit of smoke and mirrors but it helps to subside more expensive forms of generation. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. 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. Of course, weve seen headlines of this type before. 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. 600,000 passengers daily are "the first in the world" to travel thanks to wind energy. However, it seems officials have been able to beat that goal by an entire year. Burlingtons biggest source of electricity is hydropower imported from across the region. Thus, all of NE has the same energy mix, i.e., there is not one mix for VT, another for NH, or one mix for the Netherlands, another for Germany. This quote appeared in a book edited by Homer-Dixon, but it was actually written by David Hughes. 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. Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of the Netherlands. (Figure 2: Note the dotted lines showing non-electrified track. [10] [11] [12], 2015 Random House Canada. This type of fuel is considered to be climate-neutral, as it does not cause CO2 emissions. [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. NS would only care for the environment as a PR stunt, not for the betterment of the planet. Hughes did write that some windmills might not recoup their energy-construction costs, but he didn't assert, as the meme implied, that no windmills will ever generate as much energy as was invested in building them. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . 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. The virtue signalling fools at NS might then undertsand the impact of intermittent supplies. The farm was dismantled after 22 years service in 2016. Our ambition is also to use more of our own resources (buildings, property) to generate sustainable energy. 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. remarkably consists of wind turbines with just 2 blades, manufactured by Nedwind, the 18 turbines have a combined nominal power of 18 MW.[30]. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-e1-and-vs-t1/. Overall, the Netherlands has over 2,000 wind turbines spread across the country. We do something like this California with biogas. Started operation in 2001 and is developing a 6,000kW two blade downwind turbine. 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. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS spokesman, Ton . The European high voltage grid connects Finland with Sweden but doesnt go through the Baltic States. http://ast.lv/eng/power_system/current_situation_in_power_system/state_of_power_system/ [13] The wind farm demonstrates the growth in scale in wind power as between 1987 and 1991 it was the largest of its kind in Europe with 50 turbines and a total nameplate capacity of 15 MW. Especially since there are no green electrons. 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. [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. I would take it, then, that you are not among the poor and elderly who DO give a fig about money? I Did Not Say Wind Energy is 'Idiot Power.'" * 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 turbines supply enough energy to power 2.4 million households. Wind farm output goes up again ? For offshore wind a new system of tendering is under development. 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. You can't pull line between your house and a windmill and hope you have 100% power for all the time. That would meet approximately 75% of the countries electricity needs. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. While it was originally used to pump water or grind grain, wind is now helping Dutch commuters get to work. The fun would be that trains would soon be blocking the lines as power production fell. 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. 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. Some of the nations that supply power to NS such as Germany, Belgium, and Finland, do generate wind power, but only in modest amounts. 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. Founded in 2004, Produced at least 12 models at 250, 500, 750, 900 and 2000kW. Thanks for the correction Lars. (Data from ENTSO-E ): No details on the current generation mix are readily available, but as shown in Figure 1 gas and coal supplied around 80% of the Netherlands electricity between 2000 and 2013 and its likely that this percentage still applies. BTW, I have never felt deprived by having 60 Hz instead of 50Hz. Eneco and NS said on a joint website that around 600,000 passengers daily are the first in the world to travel thanks to wind energy. NS is the main public train in the Netherlands. 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. Active 2020. This text is selectively excerpted from a chapter written by David Hughes in Carbon Shift (2009), a book I co-edited. 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). Harried Dutch commuters may not be entirely cognisant of the fact . When the train doesn't run, NS schedules buses instead. The Netherlands imports wind power basically because its falling behind its EU renewable energy targets. To aver otherwise displays ignorance or deception. It becomes inextricably mixed with all the electromagnetic waves of the other. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). There are very little poor people in Germany. The Harried Dutch commuters who are travelling on one of the most environmentally friendly rail networks in the whole of Europe, if not the world are being sold a bill of goods. I did not say wind energy is Idiot Power.". This is hardly enough to make a big deal about. According to LJ Electrical only 2,231km of NSs total 3,223km of track is electrified): Figure 2: The Netherlands railway network. 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. Such as happened earlier this year in the UK when we had several days of around only 300MW of total metered wind power. This has already led to a savings of 1.43 billions kilograms of C02 emissions. The Netherlands currently has a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country, according to DutchNews.nl. According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy, said NS spokesman, Ton Boon. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . It seems small compared with our renewables subsidies in the UK, which are of the order fo 150-450 times as big per MWh. OK, these days its less than the bandwidth to your mobile, but mumble years ago it was the real deal. Can Renewable Portfolio Standards make RE Work? But its a funny read. 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. But none of this wind power is directly connected to the NS rail system. Half of this electricity comes from the Netherlands, and the other half is imported from Sweden, Finland, and Belgium. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Data from Frontier Economics. [15], In February 2022 the Netherlands announced it increased its offshore wind target to 21 GW by 2030. It sharply cut subsidies down to 1.5 billion, leaving private sector to carry over wind turbine investments should these be beneficial.[6]. Figure 1: The Netherlands generation mix 2000-2013. [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 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. An earlier version said all Dutch trains were now 100% powered by wind-generated electricity, according to the national railway company NS. The Dutch and other people draw energy from the European grid, which has been generated by many sources. "Exploiting wind power in Holland." More than wind and solar together right now. Do the claims about Netherlands trains also require further explanation? Not relevant here. They say that this makes them the first rail company in the world that runs it fleet entirely on renewable energy. Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy. 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