Yeah, that'show energy works. 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. This energy is directly traceable to individual wind farms, because we use the GVO European Certification System. . But it really doesnt matter which countries the Finnish wind power passes through on its way to the Netherlands. 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. The pickup shoes do occasionally lose contact anyway, albeit very briefly, at track junctions. Produced at least 8 models with power outputs of 100, 250, 500, 1000kW. [62], Installed land-based wind capacity (MW) by. All day so far. 2015 was a record year for new installations in the Netherlands with 586 MW added of which 180 MW were offshore. NS has signed a contract with Eneco to guarantee the supply of this electricity. Headlines like this make people feel good. 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. 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. One windmill running for an hour can power one train across about 200km (120 miles). This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 23:49. Overall, the Netherlands has over 2,000 wind turbines spread across the country. When the train doesn't run, NS schedules buses instead. How much of the Netherlands electricity is supplied by wind? "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS. 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. Eneco has made a point . The first two are feel good justifications that have no practical impact. Still don't like the disingenious advertisement thought. This type of fuel is considered to be climate-neutral, as it does not cause CO2 emissions. But if youre reading this and thinking How can trains run on electricity?, fear not. EDF was 13.44p but I keep reading comments about how RE fans should take electricity only from PV and wind turbines, so I decided I should do the same. 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. In fact, an investigation by Energy Matters finds that the electrified portion of NS mainly runs on electricity derived from coal and natural gas. Were these conditions to repeat themselves now, and if NSs trains were powered exclusively by wind, they would almost certainly come to a halt. So, the fact that they can now reliably produce it from wind is big news. (Although Eneco, NSs wind power procurer, claims that its wind farm portfolio guarantees sufficient capacity to cover such eventualities . Produced at least 14 models of 100. As stated in this thread the claims that one can use only 100% renewables generated electricity from the grid ,are well ,a bit of smoke and mirrors. Dutch trains now run on green, renewable energy (Image courtesy of Groenetrain/NS/Eneco). This is hardly enough to make a big deal about. What Is (And Isn't) Scientific About The Multiverse. 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. It becomes inextricably mixed with all the electromagnetic waves of the other. A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. It is a pity that they are allowing so many onshore/offshore wind turbines to blight our green and pleasant land and sea. (Figure 2: Note the dotted lines showing non-electrified track. Rather they act like a component in an electric circuit. When I travel, I just plug in my electric razor, which automatically converts it. 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. What is clear is that most of those electrons didnt originate from wind turbines. At this point, total Dutch wind power generation is about 7.4 billion kWh annually. 14 October 2009. The farm consists of 43 Vestas V112 turbines of 3 MW capacity each. This has already led to a savings of 1.43 billions kilograms of C02 emissions. When challenged on its claim, NS clarified that only the electrified portion of its system runs completely on wind power. NS and Eneco first announced their plan of a wind-powered railway in 2015 in order to drastically slash train ride emissions. 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. An earlier version said all Dutch trains were now 100% powered by wind-generated electricity, according to the national railway company NS. Began operating in 1990. According to Statistics Netherlands, gross electricity generation was approximately 110 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2015. 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. 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). Good for Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Web. These. 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. Data from Frontier Economics. Great post. 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. To aver otherwise displays ignorance or deception. 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. In late 2015, the Dutch government announced its goal to power the country's electric trains entirely with wind power by 2018. The best of EcoWatch right in your inbox. simply use the smart technology to cut them off until their consumption matches the wind farms output. Nevermind the entirety of it. 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. I Did Not Say Wind Energy is 'Idiot Power.'" 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. It seems small compared with our renewables subsidies in the UK, which are of the order fo 150-450 times as big per MWh. Companies that want to claim that they run on green energy then just have to buy enough GoOs to cover their energy demand. Illustration Started operations 2009. [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. Money doesnt matter to me. 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. 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. By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. 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. one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), 700 MW offshore windfarm near the town of Borssele. As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains are being powered by renewable energy, namely from wind power. 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). Its 50Hz in the Netherlands and most of the planet apart from (mainly) the US, Canada and half of Latin America. Electric trains also use regenerative braking, similar to whats found in hybrid and electric cars. http://www.sciencealert.com/all-electric-trains-in-the-netherlands-are-now-100-powered-by-wind-energy. Active 2020. - YouTube 0:00 / 6:04 Do Dutch trains run on Wind? Founded in 2004, Produced at least 12 models at 250, 500, 750, 900 and 2000kW. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. 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. If thats the case, it marks a major turning point in the story of renewables. Its of course a waste to install a separate grid with only 100% renewable electricity. Green energy for train, bus and station In 2017, our trains in the Netherlands became the first in the world to run for 100% on wind energy, giving travellers the option of travelling without CO2 emissions. Intercity train arriving at Leiden Central railway station, Netherlands. There are several Dutch turbine manufacturers that continue to manufacture both large and small installations for domestic and international clients. There are very little poor people in Germany. Belgium and Finland. power for over 400,000 households every day, a figure roughly equivalent to the number of households in the Northern Netherlands.[13]. An extra live rail that has direct current flowing through it at all times. 2009. Google will allegedly power all its operations with renewable energy this year by doing exactly the same thing. Thanks for the correction Lars. But lets be real. 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. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). What Was It Like When The Universe First Created More Matter Than Antimatter? 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. 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. NS would only care for the environment as a PR stunt, not for the betterment of the planet. Gimme a break. Some of the nations that supply power to NS such as Germany, Belgium, and Finland, do generate wind power, but only in modest amounts. Well, it actually claims that only the electrified portion runs on 100% wind. Were starting to see this ploy more often in recent years. So the standard is that 100% renewable utilities buy or produce same amount of 100% renewable electricity they sell. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. [1] In 2019, the wind turbines provided the country with 12% of its electricity demand during the year, a figure that is growing but somewhat below the average of 15% that wind power provides across the whole of the EU's electricity consumption. As Brightvibes noted, a decreasing and relatively small number of Dutch trains are still running on diesel. 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. . 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. 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. 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. You are not really concerned about the energy bills of the poor. http://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/sistemos-duomenys/79. 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). 150, 200, 225, 300, 500, 750, 850 and 1300kW. Can Renewable Portfolio Standards make RE Work? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Windmills have historically played a major part in the Netherlands by providing an alternative to water driven mills. Calculated value from total installed nameplate capacity and actual electricity generation. Started operation in 2001 and is developing a 6,000kW two blade downwind turbine. I have no wind records for the Netherlands but P.F. The national railway company, NS, said that its renewables target had been met a year earlier than planned. Since Lithuania has a chronic power shortage the flow normally goes North-South. The evidence speaks for itself. They have been working with Eneco, a sustainable energy supplier operating in the Netherlands, for several years. Netherlands take e-mobility to next level: 100% of countrys trains are powered by #wind: https://t.co/U1oDry30ll pic.twitter.com/c0vrXxrDZl, UN Climate Change (@UNFCCC) January 10, 2017. Its standard accounting practice. Grid power in fact reflects the overall generation mix, which in the case of the Netherlands is dominantly gas and coal with only a small contribution from wind. So that is coal fired power not going into the Netherlands grid. It`s a scam. How much wind? 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Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of the Netherlands. This is a BETA experience. 15ct/kWh, 100%hydro, no nuclear or gray labeled power bought for pumping. Even the two Dutch wind farms with which NS contracts directly for wind power, Noordoostpolder and Luchterduinen, are tied generally to the Dutch grid and not tied directly into the NS rail system. I read about them and saw a documentary film about them. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. supply from NSs contracted windfarms,and if their supply drops below the train systems demand, However, the government wants 40% of the total electricity used in 2030 in the Netherlands to be supplied by wind. 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. As of the 1st of January, 2017, electric Dutch trains are now completely powered by wind energy, according to NS, the national railway company. Not relevant here. Fossil fuel-fired power plants produced over 80% of the electricity in the Netherlands, mainly natural gas (42%) and coal (35%). The fund is paid for by adding a surcharge to household electricity bills. According to DutchNews.nl, there's currently a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country. The trains cant run as advertised on weak and intermittent wind power, and there is only one plug on the wall. Wind farm output goes up again ? Everybody should buy only 100% RE. I dont mind buying 100% renewable energy for my house ( I have got a small 6kw wind turbine which has supplied me for over 10 years) if it is the same price as normal electricity but I would not pay a premium for it as some suppliers charge. You only have to see their numbersbto know. Whats the trick? Homer-Dixon did not write this viral quote, but he did comment on it in a May 2018 blog post entitled: "No . Supply from all generators is monitored in any case, all youd have to do is add up the It is just another way for RE politicians to bamboozle the lay public and keep the green mythology alive. 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). And half of Japan, poor devils. Just fit smart controls where their systems draw power from the grid. These were often manufactured by lesser known wind turbine manufacturers, sometimes producing innovative products such as the Nedwind 2 blade turbine. 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. The Dutch government is looking to ramp up the nations share of renewable energy from 4 percent in 2014 to 16 percent in 2023. BBC News. The fun would be that trains would soon be blocking the lines as power production fell. if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. 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. 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. EV Use Is Growing, But Where Are The Chargers. Do the claims about Netherlands trains also require further explanation? The green electricity we use is generated by new wind farms, which have been brought into service in phases. Dutch electric trains are running on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy supplied by sustainable energy supplier, Eneco. The energy comes from new wind farms in the Netherlands and surrounding countries - and it's a lot. London Undergrounds system provides 600V of direct current to their conductor rails, still enough to be potentially lethal. A NS train. During these periods wind generation in the neighboring Netherlands would also have fallen to low levels. [20] An additional 228 MW of capacity was installed at sea. Surprisingly, even the electricity is sourced from windmill electric generato. 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. There is a way of saying this, which characterises this behaviour, but I cant write it here because it is not politically correct too bad. On-board energy storage systems, such as batteries; An overhead wire that the train connects to; or. 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. According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. I am laughing. 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. World-famous for their picturesque windmills, the Netherlands has always had a love affair with wind energy. [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). 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.. In Norway 132,2 million guarantees of origin for hydro power were issued in 2014, corresponding to 132,2 Twh. Roger, that map isn`t quite updated. The farm was dismantled after 22 years service in 2016. It doesnt add up, I would say about Euro 47 million is big money especially when you consider it`s for nothing.. The other half comes from newly built wind farms in . http://elering.ee/cross-border-physical-flows/ Their goal was to operate all NS trains on electricity produced by wind turbines by January 2018. 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. All renewable energy gets paid the FIT out of the so-called SDE budget. This year the country is due to start operating a 600-megawatt offshore wind farm, called Gemini. 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. Wind turbines feed electricity into the grid and the electric company credits them for the electricity. BTW, I have never felt deprived by having 60 Hz instead of 50Hz. 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%. Thats true, of course. This question generated a number of comments in the last Blowout so I thought I would take a quick look at it. 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. Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy. But you can arrange for a proxy burn of biogas in another state, say Colorado, and buy the rights to say you consumed it. (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 historical land of windmills is leading the charge in wind energy development. The actual amount of green energy produced is unaffected.. 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 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. http://www.djtelectricaltraining.co.uk/downloads/50Hz-Frequency.pdf. When "green" energy is generated the producer can sell a Guarantee of Origin certificate for the amount generated. 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. 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. That would meet approximately 75% of the countries electricity needs. Everyone drawing energy from the grid is equal, on a physical basis. Built 1992 this nearshore wind farm had just 4 Nedwind 500 KW turbines based 1km to shore. Its worth remembering that data on wind and solar is available here: http://mylly.hopto.me/windineurope/wind_solar_20_countries_raw.zip. 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. How Sustainable and Ethical Is the Tuna at Your Supermarket? 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 Eneco and NS joint website. 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. Hughes didn't make that statement of all windmills, and he allowed that some could recoup their construction costs in three years or less. Why cant, errr sorry, why Dont you? If its a less busy line, some of the electricity is stored in batteries on the train. 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. 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? One windmill running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. Random House Canada. , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. Electricity backed 100% by low-carbon generation, Its also why we make good on our supply promise for homes on our Blue tariffs: well match every unit you use with electricity generated from low-carbon nuclear sources.. 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 rest is supplied by wind and solar power, which contribute about a fifth of the citys power. That would force other trains to halt. Willem, you dont feel deprived by having 60Hz in the US. But its a funny read. ) can ever bring them off balance They dont understand, but they believe ! 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. In an anything goes era of news and social media, its not often that a post jumps off the page. 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