OK, these days its less than the bandwidth to your mobile, but mumble years ago it was the real deal. 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. According to DutchNews.nl, there's currently a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country. These systems are found on underground trains in Los Angeles, Auckland and Buenos Aires, among others. Not big money, even on 100TWh. The rationale is: If the Dutch railways sourced 100% of the 1.4 tWh of energy they needed each year from within the Netherlands, this would decrease availability and increase prices of green power for other parties. Many of these smaller companies were eventually acquired by the larger wind turbine manufactures such as Vestas, Siemens and Lagerwey. That would force other trains to halt. At this point, total Dutch wind power generation is about 7.4 billion kWh annually. Electric trains also use regenerative braking, similar to whats found in hybrid and electric cars. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. 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. 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. The concept of net energy must be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), 700 MW offshore windfarm near the town of Borssele. What is clear is that most of those electrons didnt originate from wind turbines. Acquired by Lagerway in 1998. 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. And enjoy 30c/kWh household electric rates, as in Denmark and Germany, without there being one iota of measurable benefit to the planet? , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. 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. How much wind? supply from NSs contracted windfarms,and if their supply drops below the train systems demand, The energy comes from new wind farms in the Netherlands and surrounding countries - and it's a lot. A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. 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 energy required to power trains in the Netherlands comes from newly built wind farms in the Netherlands as well as in Belgium and Finland. What Is (And Isn't) Scientific About The Multiverse. http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/interconnectors.png. The evidence speaks for itself. These were often manufactured by lesser known wind turbine manufacturers, sometimes producing innovative products such as the Nedwind 2 blade turbine. It is 100% powered by electric. [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. Wind farm output goes up again ? But its a funny read. The 600,000 daily. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. We do something like this California with biogas. 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. 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. According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. As a retired telecomms engineer Im glad not to be repeatedly telling folks from the US that T1 is not a global standard any more! The green electricity we use is generated by new wind farms, which have been brought into service in phases. Its production also does not use any natural raw materials or food production resources. 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. NS operates about 5,500 train trips a day. 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). [62], Installed land-based wind capacity (MW) by. 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. This is about two-thirds of the system. The Netherlands currently has a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country, according to DutchNews.nl. Whats the trick? Google will allegedly power all its operations with renewable energy this year by doing exactly the same thing. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. The comment about T1s was meant to be a wry tomayto vs tomarto thing which probably didnt work as an explanation of why I get pedantic. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . This record was immediately beaten the following year with another 766 MW being added. 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. 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. BBC News. Since Lithuania has a chronic power shortage the flow normally goes North-South. Earlier this week, one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), announced that, since 1st January, every single one of its electric trains have been running on energy harvested from wind. 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. The Netherland's national railway company, NS, has announced that all of its electric passenger trains are now 100 percent powered by wind energy. The Nuclear Humanist 1.75K subscribers 40 Dislike Share 814 views Jul 23, 2017 The Dutch Railway Corporation. 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. 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. If there was a utility providing KiteGen power I would sign up with them. People making this claim are simply propagandists. Stuart (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. [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. Eneco has made a point . New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. Two of the models are still under production. [61] A further 228 MW of installed capacity will be added when completed. One windmill running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. 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. Wheres the renewable engy only socket? The company is also looking for a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. 15ct/kWh, 100%hydro, no nuclear or gray labeled power bought for pumping. There are several Dutch turbine manufacturers that continue to manufacture both large and small installations for domestic and international clients. 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. And meanwhile the Netherlands electrified railways continue to be powered dominantly by fossil fuel electricity. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . 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. Its our offshore coal burn. 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. One thing I should have mentioned in the post is why NS doesnt get all its wind power from Netherlands wind farms. I Did Not Say Wind Energy is 'Idiot Power.'" NS first announced their target for a wind-powered train fleet back in 2015, but they've hit their target a year earlier than planned - way ahead of their 2018 goal. It doesnt add up, I would say about Euro 47 million is big money especially when you consider it`s for nothing.. I have no wind records for the Netherlands but P.F. 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/. 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. 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 . A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of. 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. 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. That's something. 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. 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. Since 2017 , 100% of Dutch electric trains have been powered by wind energy. I do not know why this is, maybe a different ethane ratio? The electrons vibrate at 60 cycles per second, 60 Hz, and travel at less than 0.1 inch/second. heavyweather~ Im sure you can link us to sites which prove your point. EV Use Is Growing, But Where Are The Chargers. Smaller turbines are often used for off grid, bespoke and community power internationally. They arent directly powered by wind. Just fit smart controls where their systems draw power from the grid. But you seem happy to gloss over the fact that Germanys cheap power comes from coal, nuclear and Russian gas. The historical land of windmills is leading . 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. But it really doesnt matter which countries the Finnish wind power passes through on its way to the Netherlands. Started operations 2009. Ah, so they're contracted for wind energy offset, not 100% wind energy powered. [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. [20] An additional 228 MW of capacity was installed at sea. The truth is that its impossible to determine the source of electrons actually moving NS trains down the track. There are very little poor people in Germany. Willem, forgive the pedantry, but its the second time you said it. Active 2020. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. And half of Japan, poor devils. Consumers in NL can choose suppliers that deliver 100% renewable, or 100% wind, or 100% dutch generated wind, etc. 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. 14 October 2009. Homer-Dixon did not write this viral quote, but he did comment on it in a May 2018 blog post entitled: "No . An all-electric heating is much easier to implement, few properly dimensioned wires and cheap heaters, while a gas heater needs specific know-how and is much more capital-intensive. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. Once stored, this electricity can be sold to the main power grid, helping the city to top up peak demand, and earning the train company money in the process. (End of excerpt). Obvious to the meanest intelligence. Thatd give us a consumption figure for the city of around 1.5 billion kWh. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind. All day so far. Web. Heating with electricity is their homemade problem that escalates bills for the poor with no alternative. The fun would be that trains would soon be blocking the lines as power production fell. 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? 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. NO. For offshore wind a new system of tendering is under development. NS and Eneco first announced their plan of a wind-powered railway in 2015 in order to drastically slash train ride emissions. Imports from the German grid, however, will contain about 14% wind power, although not wind power that NS has contracted for. Wind turbines feed electricity into the grid and the electric company credits them for the electricity. 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. There is a tight social net up to the point where their transfer income pays for their existence. . See the table below for the current situation. Temporarily, they might even have a surplus to sell. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). According to LJ Electrical only 2,231km of NSs total 3,223km of track is electrified): Figure 2: The Netherlands railway network. Of course, weve seen headlines of this type before. 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. 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. 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. Everybody should buy only 100% RE. Whats the trick? That would power a large proportion of all of the households in Amsterdam**. 90/month for the typical 3 person household. Sign up for our email newsletter! Instead of trains recovering energy for their own use, any excess power is directed to a centralized bank of lithium-ion batteries. Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of 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. 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. 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. 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). On-board energy storage systems, such as batteries; An overhead wire that the train connects to; or. Rod, you must live in Albania E.ON wanted to put my tariff up from 9.79p to 13.87p. 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. How it then gets used depends on the city were in. 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. It is just another way for RE politicians to bamboozle the lay public and keep the green mythology alive. [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. Built 1992 this nearshore wind farm had just 4 Nedwind 500 KW turbines based 1km to shore. Deregulation Is Still Wrong for Consumers. 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. If its a less busy line, some of the electricity is stored in batteries on the train. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. I paid 1100 Euros/year for a 150 m2 house, at 1000 m altitude on the French alps, heating, hot water, everything included. Bolthouse Farms Sued After Smoothie With 100% Fruit Juice Tests Positive for PFAS, EPA Announces $27 Billion Fund to Help Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities Transition to Renewable Energy, Derailed Train Cars in Ohio Were Not Labeled Hazardous, Wind Turbine Giant Proposes New York Factory That Would Create 420 Jobs and $500M in Local Investments. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS. if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. 2009. Dutch Electric Trains Become 100% Powered By Wind Energy Technology Dutch Electric Trains Become 100% Powered By Wind Energy By Garrett Parker Posted on January 20, 2017 Updated on April 8, 2020 The Netherlands are called the Netherlands because so much of its landscape lies below sea level. Does anyone even believe that? Blunt, Elizabeth. 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. The next largest onshore wind farm is the Westereems wind farm located in Eemshaven in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. 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. So that is coal fired power not going into the Netherlands grid. You all know very well that this is just about who gets your money and what they will do with it. Many of the numerous smaller and older wind farms in the Netherlands consist of much smaller turbines compared to those typically deployed today. Therefore, entities enter into power purchase agreements, PPAs, with various other entities that produce, or resell energy, such as electric utilities. 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]." On insulated wires, the speed, on average, is about 2/3 the speed of light. I live in France since 20 years, have almost always used electricity to heat my house and always saved money with respect to the neighbours who used other means. 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. Train tickets for international journeys can be purchased from NS International. The city also gets about a third of its power from a large biomass plant. 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. 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. How Sustainable and Ethical Is the Tuna at Your Supermarket? I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system. Gimme a break. Consumer unions help by auctioning for grouped members. If a energy supply company contracts with a renewable provider ( I am not including nuclear sources) would it be based on the installed power of the wind farms or a capacity factor adjusted power capabilities? This has already led to a savings of 1.43 billions kilograms of C02 emissions. NS Dutch Railways has partnered with energy company Eneco to use its wind. I would take it, then, that you are not among the poor and elderly who DO give a fig about money? Dutch electric trains are running on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy supplied by sustainable energy supplier, Eneco. Established 1983. 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. Good for saving valuable hydrocarbons for something more useful than burning them, and they really can supply all my electricity 24/7 that way. Do the claims about Netherlands trains also require further explanation? These sites are also surveyed centrally by the government allowing developers to avoid costly and multiple surveys.[11]. Probably not. Some of the newer larger wind farms currently under construction are replacing smaller turbines previously installed at given locations. Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco. The claim by the Dutch railway network, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), is almost entirely a sleight of hand. 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