Stuart 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. That's something. One windmill running for an hour can power one train across about 200km (120 miles). The next largest onshore wind farm is the Westereems wind farm located in Eemshaven in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. So technically, the government is not paying for the FITs.. 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. Dutch trains now run on green, renewable energy (Image courtesy of Groenetrain/NS/Eneco). The wholesale price of GOs seems to be a mere 0.36/MWh or so. In contrast to onshore wind farms, almost all turbines by January 2017 were situated in just a few large wind farms. Since 2019, the buses have been powered by HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) made from processed deep fryer oil and industrial fats. Random House Canada. People making this claim are simply propagandists. Does anyone even believe that? BBC News. When the train doesn't run, NS schedules buses instead. When you dont know reality and cant speak German you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs . 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. And enjoy 30c/kWh household electric rates, as in Denmark and Germany, without there being one iota of measurable benefit to the planet? At near the speed of light, is there such a thing as national or regional energy mix, other than in our habit forming minds? Only 18,9 Twh were bought in Norway, the rest sold abroad. As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains are being powered by renewable energy, namely from wind power. Their original goal was to transition the trains to 100 percent renewable energy by 2018, but that target was moved up after reaching 75 percent in 2016. As 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. According to a government web page ( now removed!) There is, however, a problem. You can't pull line between your house and a windmill and hope you have 100% power for all the time. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Ad Meskens. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . These. 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. In total, NS consumes around 1.2 TWh of electricity to power its trains. The historical land of windmills is leading the charge in wind energy development. Transmission costs of 1.4 eurocent/kWh is to be added as TenneT is required to take power from sea to shore. Wind farm output goes up again ? 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. supply from NSs contracted windfarms,and if their supply drops below the train systems demand, http://www.djtelectricaltraining.co.uk/downloads/50Hz-Frequency.pdf. The fund is paid for by adding a surcharge to household electricity bills. Eneco has made a point . 600,000 passengers daily are "the first in the world" to travel thanks to wind energy. (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. 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. 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 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. You may opt-out by. 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What Is (And Isn't) Scientific About The Multiverse. It's a bit of smoke and mirrors but it helps to subside more expensive forms of generation. An Eneco and NS joint website. When challenged on its claim, NS clarified that only the electrified portion of its system runs completely on wind power. Homer-Dixon, Thomas. [9] As a first step, the government has determined 65 sites for offshore wind farms in the North Sea and IJsselmeer. Thanks for the correction Lars. 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? The Dutch government is looking to ramp up the nations share of renewable energy from 4 percent in 2014 to 16 percent in 2023. Works for me, and they were cheaper than EON too. Produced at least 3 models of outputs 100, 200, 250kW. That means electrons traveling across international borders to help power the NS railway system come in some amount from wind power, but in much larger amounts from non-wind sources. Claims that Dutch trains running entirely on wind power are way off track. 14 October 2009. 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. The 50 Hz, with 3000 RPM generators in Europe, may be due to various reasons, Here is an explanation. I have caught people several times in their lectures saying they are burning biogas on a campus, and they always are sheepish when I call them out on it, because they know they are fibbing. I would take it, then, that you are not among the poor and elderly who DO give a fig about money? According to LJ Electrical only 2,231km of NSs total 3,223km of track is electrified): Figure 2: The Netherlands railway network. 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. I cant help feeling that inexperienced power traders at NS will have been taken to the cleaners at the expense of passengers. 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 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). That is, a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it. Active 2016. Windmills have historically played a major part in the Netherlands by providing an alternative to water driven mills. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. There are several Dutch turbine manufacturers that continue to manufacture both large and small installations for domestic and international clients. 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. 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). "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS spokesman,. 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. This is the cause of the very bright, blue-white spark you sometimes see near the third rail, as well as flickering carriage lights. 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It doesnt add up, I would say about Euro 47 million is big money especially when you consider it`s for nothing.. , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. Good for Nederlandse Spoorwegen. [14] A second hand market for turbines also exists, which could grow as older turbines are replaced by larger newer ones. 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. I am laughing. 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 Norway 132,2 million guarantees of origin for hydro power were issued in 2014, corresponding to 132,2 Twh. 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. The best of EcoWatch, right in your inbox. 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. 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. But of course even two-thirds of the NS system doesnt run completely on wind power. Not relevant here. The turbines supply enough energy to power 2.4 million households. 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. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco. Active 2020. 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. I have just signed up with EON at 9.4p per Kwh, It is common for major companies to claim they use renewable or carbon-free power only, on the grounds of green certificates. Stations are heated using heat exchangers, green gas or green electricity. Overall, the Netherlands has over 2,000 wind turbines spread across the country. NS has signed a contract with Eneco to guarantee the supply of this electricity. The electrons vibrate at 60 cycles per second, 60 Hz, and travel at less than 0.1 inch/second. [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. . The fun would be that trains would soon be blocking the lines as power production fell. And half of Japan, poor devils. 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. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. HomerDixon.com. 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. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. This is a BETA experience. Thats true, of course. It probably has a lower calorific value, a greater CO2 content (up to 30%/40% from some sources), and your local regs may insist it be odourised. Homer-Dixon did not write this viral quote, but he did comment on it in a May 2018 blog post entitled: "No . 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. 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. But none of this wind power is directly connected to the NS rail system. * 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. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. What is SDE? 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. The Dutch and other people draw energy from the European grid, which has been generated by many sources. Half of this electricity comes from the Netherlands, and the other half is imported from Sweden, Finland, and Belgium. Furthermore, both solar panels and wind turbines are capable of functioning under cold . The actual amount of green energy produced is unaffected.. The Dutch railways network (NS) started using wind energy generated by the turbines owned by electric company Eneco two years ago when they signed a ten-year agreement. 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). Belgium and Finland. NS uses as much electricity as all Amsterdam residents combined, and its trains represent over 90 percent of commercial train travel in the country. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of. Wheres the renewable engy only socket? So, the fact that they can now reliably produce it from wind is big news. Began operating in 1990. BTW, I have never felt deprived by having 60 Hz instead of 50Hz. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. The clip is in Dutch so set the captions to translate if you do not speak the language. 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. Railway Gazette reports that NS records about 1.2 million passenger-journeys per day, with an annual energy requirement for 1.2 billion kWh. Its worth remembering that data on wind and solar is available here: http://mylly.hopto.me/windineurope/wind_solar_20_countries_raw.zip. The farm consists of three smaller wind farms owned by separate organisations with local community links. Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of the Netherlands. When "green" energy is generated the producer can sell a Guarantee of Origin certificate for the amount generated. It is 100% powered by electric. Sign up for our email newsletter! Updated [5 February 2019]: Original version of this article attributed this quote to Thomas Homer-Dixon. Of course, weve seen headlines of this type before. The Netherlands currently has a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country, according to DutchNews.nl. The truth is that its impossible to determine the source of electrons actually moving NS trains down the track. This text is selectively excerpted from a chapter written by David Hughes in Carbon Shift (2009), a book I co-edited. Just fit smart controls where their systems draw power from the grid. Imports from the German grid, however, will contain about 14% wind power, although not wind power that NS has contracted for. The company is also looking for a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Google will allegedly power all its operations with renewable energy this year by doing exactly the same thing. Instead of trains recovering energy for their own use, any excess power is directed to a centralized bank of lithium-ion batteries. The historical land of windmills is leading . from northern Maine to southern Florida, about 1800 miles in 0.01 second. No direct subsidies from the government are related to this contract.. This question generated a number of comments in the last Blowout so I thought I would take a quick look at it. [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. A NS train. However, the government wants 40% of the total electricity used in 2030 in the Netherlands to be supplied by wind. The rest is supplied by wind and solar power, which contribute about a fifth of the citys power. 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. (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. 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. What the Netherlands gets when it imports it is the energy mix on the German grid. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. . NS and Eneco first announced their plan of a wind-powered railway in 2015 in order to drastically slash train ride emissions. However, wind power consumption in the Netherlands in 2015 was 12.5TWh, indicating that about 5TWh of wind power was imported during the year. Rather they act like a component in an electric circuit. This material may not be reproduced without permission. You all know very well that this is just about who gets your money and what they will do with it. By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. 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. How much of the Netherlands electricity is supplied by wind? They hope to reduce the energy used per passenger by a further 35% by 2020 compared with 2005. if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. Wind power now supplies about 10% of Belgiums electricity, so power imported from the Belgian grid will be about 10% wind. Started operations in 1979. In an anything goes era of news and social media, its not often that a post jumps off the page. 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. One thing I should have mentioned in the post is why NS doesnt get all its wind power from Netherlands wind farms. This is hardly enough to make a big deal about. The best of EcoWatch right in your inbox. With this, offshore wind energy makes an important contribution to achieving the increased climate target of 55% less CO2-emissions. These sites are also surveyed centrally by the government allowing developers to avoid costly and multiple surveys.[11]. First some details on the Netherlands electricity sector. N.p., 13 November 2000. 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. Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy, said NS spokesman, Ton Boon. And of course no such connections exist. Some of the nations that supply power to NS such as Germany, Belgium, and Finland, do generate wind power, but only in modest amounts. 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