(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. The trains cant run as advertised on weak and intermittent wind power, and there is only one plug on the wall. 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. The 50 Hz, with 3000 RPM generators in Europe, may be due to various reasons, Here is an explanation. Active 2016. However, the government wants 40% of the total electricity used in 2030 in the Netherlands to be supplied by wind. 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). 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. When the train doesn't run, NS schedules buses instead. I paid 1100 Euros/year for a 150 m2 house, at 1000 m altitude on the French alps, heating, hot water, everything included. Only 18,9 Twh were bought in Norway, the rest sold abroad. The historical land of windmills is leading . 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. 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. Its our offshore coal burn. [15], In February 2022 the Netherlands announced it increased its offshore wind target to 21 GW by 2030. NS would only care for the environment as a PR stunt, not for the betterment of the planet. Therefore, entities enter into power purchase agreements, PPAs, with various other entities that produce, or resell energy, such as electric utilities. In total, NS consumes around 1.2 TWh of electricity to power its trains. BTW, I have never felt deprived by having 60 Hz instead of 50Hz. The claim by the Dutch railway network, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), is almost entirely a sleight of hand. The story of Apple data centre in Denmark: Apart from the first rather obvious problems, anyone with the most basic understanding of electrical enrgy, as taught before 16 at school, would immediately know this was a wholly untrue technical assertion., Thats the whole point, Brian There are hardly any people with a basic understanding of electrical energy If most would have an understanding, there would be no renewables at all The whole charade would not even have started in the first place , Just as Otter says above, on different forums, lots of people are claiming Im 100% renewable (because I have a 100% RE contract with Essent, or Lampiris, or Belpower, or ENI, or ), Neither humour (so you got all the wind power this morning, because there was none left for me !, nor hard facts (for the 8-day period 27/12 03/01, that I just took a look at for another discussion, Wind and Solar provided a grand total of 4.6% of all electricity used in Belgium Was that enough for all of them 100% RE contracts ? 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. Money doesnt matter to me. The virtue signalling fools at NS might then undertsand the impact of intermittent supplies. The truth is that its impossible to determine the source of electrons actually moving NS trains down the track. And no facts will ever get in the way of a true believer . Active 2016. I see the logic behind the options for supply that can be taken, but how can any householder take a contract for 100% wind power when often this is not available, certainly if a large number opt for green power. NS Dutch Railways has partnered with energy company Eneco to use its wind. As of October2022[update], wind power in the Netherlands has an installed capacity of 8,304 MW, 29.6% of which is based offshore. They have been working with Eneco, a sustainable energy supplier operating in the Netherlands, for several years. Wind contributes 4,117MW, representing 13% of the capacity mix. [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. Hughes didn't make that statement of all windmills, and he allowed that some could recoup their construction costs in three years or less. 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. The 129 MW Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm is located 23km off the coast between Zandvoort and Noordwijk cities in the Netherlands. 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). Two of the models are still under production. Established 1983. First some details on the Netherlands electricity sector. But if youre reading this and thinking How can trains run on electricity?, fear not. It's a bit of smoke and mirrors but it helps to subside more expensive forms of generation. So, the fact that they can now reliably produce it from wind is big news. Whats the trick? 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. In this video, NS CEO Roger van Boxtel is humorously strapped to a windmill blade as he touts his companys latest renewable energy achievement. That is, a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building 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. Hinkley C will have a footprint of 165 acres when operational and an equivalent footprint for onshore windturbines would be from 160,000 to 490,000 acres (dependent on power of turbines available) to produce the same power output over a year. There are ~40 utilities with sharp price competition in NL. If thats the case, it marks a major turning point in the story of renewables. The fund is paid for by adding a surcharge to household electricity bills. Gimme a break.
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. 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. Impressively, this means their initial goal was met one whole year ahead of schedule. The largest wind farm in the Netherlands is Noordoostpolder with a capacity of 429 MW. The historical land of windmills is leading the charge in wind energy development. 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. 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. 5.3M views, 13K likes, 1.3K loves, 1.7K comments, 95K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from BrightVibes: Amazing news! Claims that Dutch trains running entirely on wind power are way off track. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. 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! Some of the newer larger wind farms currently under construction are replacing smaller turbines previously installed at given locations. I think the trains in the Netherlands use 1.5kVDC anyway bet there are no wind turbines producing that directly. 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. It is just another way for RE politicians to bamboozle the lay public and keep the green mythology alive. And meanwhile the Netherlands electrified railways continue to be powered dominantly by fossil fuel electricity. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. This article was amended on 11 January 2017. 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%. The rest is supplied by wind and solar power, which contribute about a fifth of the citys power. (my emphasis). These sites are also surveyed centrally by the government allowing developers to avoid costly and multiple surveys.[11]. The electrons that run the electrified portion of the NS system come from many sources, including wind, but also from coal, natural gas, and nuclear. 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. 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. 150, 200, 225, 300, 500, 750, 850 and 1300kW. 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. 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. Just whatever serves your agenda. Blunt, Elizabeth. The energy comes from new wind farms in the Netherlands and surrounding countries - and it's a lot. It`s a scam. Data from Frontier Economics. Many small scale wind farms exist throughout the Netherlands which bear testament to earlier models of wind turbines and lesser known manufacturers which provided a range of niche products, ranging in size and power output. Surprisingly, even the electricity is sourced from windmill electric generato. 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. I am surrounded by almost 3000 MWs of hydro power in my county alone, but because of these guarantees of origin my supposed consumption is very dirty, consisting mostly of a central European mix of coal, natural gas, nuclear with some renewables added. 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. If you want to be generous to NS, you can say that the BritNed interconnector is definitely being fed by the coal fired Maasvlakte power stations when it is delivering 1GW to the UK, because theyre right next door to the HVDC converters. To aver otherwise displays ignorance or deception. We do something like this California with biogas. Ive included a (slightly-edited) mini-excerpt from my recent book, Science and the City, to explain: Electric locomotives dont have conventional engines. This is the cause of the very bright, blue-white spark you sometimes see near the third rail, as well as flickering carriage lights. Homer-Dixon did not write this viral quote, but he did comment on it in a May 2018 blog post entitled: "No . Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. Homer-Dixon, Thomas. 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. You know all that and simply fabricate a problem where there is non. Deregulation Is Still Wrong for Consumers. heavyweather~ Im sure you can link us to sites which prove your point. They arent directly powered by wind. The T1 standard relates to telecommunications. 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. 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 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). Since Lithuania has a chronic power shortage the flow normally goes North-South. Google will allegedly power all its operations with renewable energy this year by doing exactly the same thing. 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. The green electricity we use is generated by new wind farms, which have been brought into service in phases. Under this system the government chooses locations and organizes tenders for projects of 350 MW, and project developers can offer bids for each farm. 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. The wholesale price of GOs seems to be a mere 0.36/MWh or so. This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 23:49. Consumers in NL can choose suppliers that deliver 100% renewable, or 100% wind, or 100% dutch generated wind, etc. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . 2009. 22 May 2018. But it really doesnt matter which countries the Finnish wind power passes through on its way to the Netherlands. 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. [5] The first of these, the 429 MW Noordoostpolder wind farm was already partially deployed by year end 2015 whilst the 600 MW Gemini offshore wind farm was commissioned in 2017. The best of EcoWatch right in your inbox. 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. See the table below for the current situation. 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. Offsets. 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. These. [1], By December 2013, 1,975 wind turbines were operational on land in the Netherlands, with an aggregate capacity of 2,479 MW. 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. 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. 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). http://www.sciencealert.com/all-electric-trains-in-the-netherlands-are-now-100-powered-by-wind-energy. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The wind farm's 86 wind turbines will produce 1.4 billion kWh of electricity, enough. The Dutch government has set a target of 6,000 MW nameplate capacity of onshore wind power by 2020 (not met, as per the data above) and 4,450 MW of offshore wind power by 2023. This passage was written by David Hughes. If you would like to know more, click here. 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). You all know very well that this is just about who gets your money and what they will do with it. While it was originally used to pump water or grind grain, wind is now helping Dutch commuters get to work. Railway Gazette reports that NS records about 1.2 million passenger-journeys per day, with an annual energy requirement for 1.2 billion kWh. The GoOs trade at a premium and help to subsidise the production. The next largest onshore wind farm is the Westereems wind farm located in Eemshaven in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. Sign up for our email newsletter! That's something. Roger, that map isn`t quite updated. Web. [2] The Dutch are trying to meet the EU-set target of producing 14% of total energy use from renewable sources by 2020, and 16% by 2023. http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-e1-and-vs-t1/. [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. But of course even two-thirds of the NS system doesnt run completely on wind power. 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. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. 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. The electrons vibrate at 60 cycles per second, 60 Hz, and travel at less than 0.1 inch/second. If not, Im sure their stranded customers would be happy to explain it to them. During these periods wind generation in the neighboring Netherlands would also have fallen to low levels. 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. Do Dutch trains run on Wind? When you dont know reality and cant speak German you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs . The 113,3 Twh exported far exceeds the actual exports of course, but were good business for the power companies selling their power twice. Active 2020. (Figure 2: Note the dotted lines showing non-electrified track. In late 2015, the Dutch government announced its goal to power the country's electric trains entirely with wind power by 2018. 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. The pickup shoes do occasionally lose contact anyway, albeit very briefly, at track junctions. The Netherlands imports wind power basically because its falling behind its EU renewable energy targets. But how does NS know the power it imports is wind? So technically, the government is not paying for the FITs.. For example, in 2015, Burlington, Vermont, became the first city to announce it was running totally on renewable power. Ah, so they're contracted for wind energy offset, not 100% wind energy powered. one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), 700 MW offshore windfarm near the town of Borssele. Obvious to the meanest intelligence. Plus, it turns out that about half the electricity NS uses to power its rail system comes from outside of the Netherlands. Wind power now supplies about 10% of Belgiums electricity, so power imported from the Belgian grid will be about 10% wind. Ah, so the train really runs on smoke & mirrors. You make one good point here which is that France has cheap electricity but expensive heating. Good for saving valuable hydrocarbons for something more useful than burning them, and they really can supply all my electricity 24/7 that way. (Although Eneco, NSs wind power procurer, claims that its wind farm portfolio guarantees sufficient capacity to cover such eventualities . Thanks for the correction Lars. The Netherlands, aka Windmill Country, is now operating 100 percent of its electric trains with wind energy. Three strikes. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. 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. 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. Over the course of this year the average will be around 11%, equal to wind powers share of the Netherlands annual grid electricity consumption. 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. The Nuclear Humanist 1.75K subscribers 40 Dislike Share 814 views Jul 23, 2017 The Dutch Railway Corporation. 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. 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. The Netherlands is the first country in the world where all electric trains are. This quote appeared in a book edited by Homer-Dixon, but it was actually written by David Hughes. Imports from the German grid, however, will contain about 14% wind power, although not wind power that NS has contracted for. In Norway 132,2 million guarantees of origin for hydro power were issued in 2014, corresponding to 132,2 Twh. [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. The company is also looking for a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. [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. London Undergrounds system provides 600V of direct current to their conductor rails, still enough to be potentially lethal. Why cant, errr sorry, why Dont you? The other half comes from newly built wind farms in . 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. The ns also solved the issue of delayed trains by changing the defenition of delay from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. France has an even bigger problem with energy poverty even though her supposedly cheaper power. Its worth remembering that data on wind and solar is available here: http://mylly.hopto.me/windineurope/wind_solar_20_countries_raw.zip. In an anything goes era of news and social media, its not often that a post jumps off the page. Since 2019, the buses have been powered by HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) made from processed deep fryer oil and industrial fats. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. quite an amount of work youve done there, It doesnt add up ! Its standard accounting practice. By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . Nevermind the entirety of it. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. For offshore wind a new system of tendering is under development. 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]. That would meet approximately 75% of the countries electricity needs. Even cheap electricity doesnt change anything. The best of EcoWatch, right in your inbox. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of. 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. However, early successes in rolling out the clean energy program . 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. All wind amd solar energy gets a hefty FIT tariff in the Netherlands, intended to guarantee profitability of the energy investment over the long term (even if the electricity market price goes negative, for example). This material may not be reproduced without permission. Belgium and Finland. 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. According to Eneco, the power used by the carriers comes from newly built wind farms in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Belgium. NS is the main public train in the Netherlands. http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/interconnectors.png. You can't pull line between your house and a windmill and hope you have 100% power for all the time. However, wind power consumption in the Netherlands in 2015 was 12.5TWh, indicating that about 5TWh of wind power was imported during the year. They hope to reduce the energy used per passenger by a further 35% by 2020 compared with 2005. 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. [17] Where the parks will come and how they will be built is still being discussed. Julian Turner gets the inside track on the unique collaboration from Michel Kerkhof, account manager at Eneco. 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