The other thing most people (at least in the US) dont consider when they see stories like this: A country like the Netherlands is literally 1/3 the size of the state of Ohio. 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 supply of wind power to the Dutch grid will also not be constant. Gimme a break. The evidence speaks for itself. The turbines supply enough energy to power 2.4 million households. Same thing if you got solar panels on your house. Intercity train arriving at Leiden Central railway station, Netherlands. How much wind? A little more than a tenth of all electricity consumed in the Netherlands comes from wind power, some of which is imported. Homer-Dixon, Thomas. Even cheap electricity doesnt change anything. The US city of Philadelphia has taken regenerative braking to a new level though. According to Eneco, the power used by the carriers comes from newly built wind farms in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Belgium. Electric trains also use regenerative braking, similar to whats found in hybrid and electric cars. 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. Many of these smaller companies were eventually acquired by the larger wind turbine manufactures such as Vestas, Siemens and Lagerwey. 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. 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. 2009. If its a less busy line, some of the electricity is stored in batteries on the train. [14] A second hand market for turbines also exists, which could grow as older turbines are replaced by larger newer ones. But a recent piece of news about electricity caught my attention. Do Dutch trains run on Wind? More than wind and solar together right now. I paid 1100 Euros/year for a 150 m2 house, at 1000 m altitude on the French alps, heating, hot water, everything included. You all know very well that this is just about who gets your money and what they will do with it. 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, writes author Roger Andrews. 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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. Eneco and NS said on a joint website that around 600,000 passengers daily are the first in the world to travel thanks to wind energy. 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. Rail networks source this electricity from the grid, and just like for our homes, its transmitted to them via high-voltage lines. 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. Some of the nations that supply power to NS such as Germany, Belgium, and Finland, do generate wind power, but only in modest amounts. 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]." London Undergrounds system provides 600V of direct current to their conductor rails, still enough to be potentially lethal. http://www.sciencealert.com/all-electric-trains-in-the-netherlands-are-now-100-powered-by-wind-energy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Ad Meskens. Since 2017 , 100% of Dutch electric trains have been powered by wind energy. Rather they act like a component in an electric circuit. 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 . Web. Data from Frontier Economics. They hope to reduce the energy used per passenger by a further 35% by 2020 compared with 2005. It`s a scam. The farm was dismantled after 22 years service in 2016. This is a BETA experience. 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 best of EcoWatch right in your inbox. Active 2020. Wind power now supplies about 10% of Belgiums electricity, so power imported from the Belgian grid will be about 10% wind. 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. I do not know why this is, maybe a different ethane ratio? Calculated value from total installed nameplate capacity and actual electricity generation. 15ct/kWh, 100%hydro, no nuclear or gray labeled power bought for pumping. Thats true, of course. So while wind contributes about 7% to the Netherlands electricity generation it contributes about 11% to the countrys electricity consumption. With wind power usage in 2015 equal to 12.5 billion kWh, Dutch demand for wind power amply exceeds supply. Bach supplies data for Belgium, which should be a close analogy, and Figure 4 shows Belgian wind generation for September 2014: Figure 4: Belgian wind generation, September 2014, With an installed capacity of around 1850MW in this month the overall wind capacity factor was 11% and there were a number of occasions on which wind generation fell effectively to zero for hours on end. How it then gets used depends on the city were in. Burlingtons biggest source of electricity is hydropower imported from across the region. Works for me, and they were cheaper than EON too. 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 an anything goes era of news and social media, its not often that a post jumps off the page. For example, in 2015, Burlington, Vermont, became the first city to announce it was running totally on renewable power. For high-speed trains, overhead wires are the better choice. As of January 1, all electric passenger trains on the Dutch rail network have been run on wind energy, according to a statement from operator NS (via EcoWatch ). [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. [1] [2] [7] The project cost $272 million and is cooperatively owned by Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch utility company Nuon. Stuart 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. What is clear is that most of those electrons didnt originate from wind turbines. The 600,000 Dutch that travel daily by train will now do so thanks purely to wind energy, with the national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) announcing that 100 percent of its. if any Finnish electron reaches Netherlands most likely it goes via Baltic states, Poland and Germany. Sign up for our email newsletter! 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? Such as happened earlier this year in the UK when we had several days of around only 300MW of total metered wind power. Since 2019, the buses have been powered by HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) made from processed deep fryer oil and industrial fats. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. Overhead wires are best suited to tram and intercity services, whereas the more compact third rail option is preferred for underground trains. [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. 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. Its 50Hz in the Netherlands and most of the planet apart from (mainly) the US, Canada and half of Latin America. ) can ever bring them off balance They dont understand, but they believe ! 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. TL;DR Dutch trains run on natural gas and coal power, not wind power. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said NS spokesman, Ton . We do something like this California with biogas. That would power a large proportion of all of the households in Amsterdam**. However, the government wants 40% of the total electricity used in 2030 in the Netherlands to be supplied by wind. The company is also looking for a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Obvious to the meanest intelligence. This is the cause of the very bright, blue-white spark you sometimes see near the third rail, as well as flickering carriage lights. Whats the trick? Transmission costs of 1.4 eurocent/kWh is to be added as TenneT is required to take power from sea to shore. In contrast to onshore wind farms, almost all turbines by January 2017 were situated in just a few large wind farms. I guess I could have found something cheaper still if Id looked hard enough. Sign up for our email newsletter! Heating with electricity is their homemade problem that escalates bills for the poor with no alternative. I did not say wind energy is Idiot Power.". According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, wind turbines never recoup the energy it takes to build them. [19] In July 2016, the first two stages of offshore wind farm development for a combined 700 MegaWatt capacity in a water area near Borssele was awarded to DONG Energy at a price of 7.27 Euro cent per kilowatt hour for 15 years. , I am told Biogas is not actually allowed in our pipeline system.. If you would like to know more, click here. However, everyone must have a contract to be authorized to draw energy from the grid; otherwise it would be stealing. Thank you for explaining it to everyone else. Started operations in 1979. The Nuclear Humanist 1.75K subscribers 40 Dislike Share 814 views Jul 23, 2017 The Dutch Railway Corporation. Many of the numerous smaller and older wind farms in the Netherlands consist of much smaller turbines compared to those typically deployed today. This energy is directly traceable to individual wind farms, because we use the GVO European Certification System. 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. [21], In November 2011, the Dutch government decided to no longer fund 6 billion per year to maintain subsidized wind kWh at 0.18. With this, offshore wind energy makes an important contribution to achieving the increased climate target of 55% less CO2-emissions. [15], In February 2022 the Netherlands announced it increased its offshore wind target to 21 GW by 2030. HomerDixon.com. How much of the Netherlands electricity is supplied by wind? It feels to many like progress. BBC News. 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. Knew this was BS from the headline. The European high voltage grid connects Finland with Sweden but doesnt go through the Baltic States. 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 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. 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. EV Use Is Growing, But Where Are The Chargers. NS uses as much electricity as all Amsterdam residents combined, and its trains represent over 90 percent of commercial train travel in the country. quite an amount of work youve done there, It doesnt add up ! Thatd give us a consumption figure for the city of around 1.5 billion kWh. 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. 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. I struggled to find reliable figures to back that up, so I didnt want to repeat the claim here. [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. There are very little poor people in Germany. 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). However, wind power consumption in the Netherlands in 2015 was 12.5TWh, indicating that about 5TWh of wind power was imported during the year. But of course even two-thirds of the NS system doesnt run completely on wind power. Electricity is electricity, electron charge transfer. Two of the models are still under production. Thanks for the correction Lars. http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/interconnectors.png. one of their national railway companies, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), 700 MW offshore windfarm near the town of Borssele. [61] A further 228 MW of installed capacity will be added when completed. It is a pity that they are allowing so many onshore/offshore wind turbines to blight our green and pleasant land and sea. 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. 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. 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. The company said all electric trains were now powered by wind energy. The concept of net energy must be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. Every electric train on the Dutch railways NS network now gets 100 per cent of its energy from wind energy. They would stop when there isnt any, obs. New wind farm deployment is based on the SER agreement that describes a plan for five years of tendering 700 MW per year. A NS train. Rod, you must live in Albania E.ON wanted to put my tariff up from 9.79p to 13.87p. 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. 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. 14 October 2009. This passage was written by David Hughes. Eneco has made a point . If not, Im sure their stranded customers would be happy to explain it to them. When I travel, I just plug in my electric razor, which automatically converts it. The headline: Netherlands Trains Now Running on 100% Wind Power. Surprisingly, even the electricity is sourced from windmill electric generato. When you dont know reality and cant speak German you have to believe what you find on the English writing interwebs . Impressively, this means their initial goal was met one whole year ahead of schedule. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. I Did Not Say Wind Energy is 'Idiot Power.'" Wind farmsboth onshore and offshoreare regarded as a key component in renewable energy policy and an important tool in mitigating the risks of climate change. All Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS has said . By Adele Peters 1 minute Read A single. * 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. Half of this electricity comes from the Netherlands, and the other half is imported from Sweden, Finland, and Belgium. There is a tight social net up to the point where their transfer income pays for their existence. It doesnt add up, I would say about Euro 47 million is big money especially when you consider it`s for nothing.. [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. The farm consists of three smaller wind farms owned by separate organisations with local community links. Dutch electric trains are running on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy supplied by sustainable energy supplier, Eneco. This year the country is due to start operating a 600-megawatt offshore wind farm, called Gemini. So, the fact that they can now reliably produce it from wind is big news. Grid connections for the Luchterduinen and Nordpoostpolder wind farms (locations approximate) are shown in black. from northern Maine to southern Florida, about 1800 miles in 0.01 second. [20], The Rachel Carson wind farm (also known as the Eemmeerdijk Wind Park.) (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. (Figure 2: Note the dotted lines showing non-electrified track. 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. And half of Japan, poor devils. Were these conditions to repeat themselves now, and if NSs trains were powered exclusively by wind, they would almost certainly come to a halt. It is just another way for RE politicians to bamboozle the lay public and keep the green mythology alive. So pick your choice The national railway company, NS, said that its renewables target had been met a year earlier than planned. So that is coal fired power not going into the Netherlands grid. 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. Consumers in NL can choose suppliers that deliver 100% renewable, or 100% wind, or 100% dutch generated wind, etc. [5] In 2020 wind power provided 11.54% of the Dutch electricity generation (see table above) while solar power provided an additional 7.25% for a combined 18.79% - easily meeting the target without taking other renewable sources into account, even though the target for onshore wind capacity was not met. The actual amount of green energy produced is unaffected.. 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. 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. Especially since there are no green electrons. Established 1983. Do the claims about Netherlands trains also require further explanation? You make one good point here which is that France has cheap electricity but expensive heating. Wind turbines feed electricity into the grid and the electric company credits them for the electricity. And only half of the wind power NS has contracted for comes from the Netherlands. 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! Instead of trains recovering energy for their own use, any excess power is directed to a centralized bank of lithium-ion batteries. At near the speed of light, is there such a thing as national or regional energy mix, other than in our habit forming minds? Does anyone even believe that? As Cleantechnica puts it: the GoO system allows for the transfer of the rights to call electricity green from those who actually generate renewable energy to those who dont but want to classify their power as such. Apparently Eneco can make the wind blow to order.). 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. 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. Stations are heated using heat exchangers, green gas or green electricity. The real electricity they use is of course no more or less green than other companies on the same grid use. What Is (And Isn't) Scientific About The Multiverse. 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. This has already led to a savings of 1.43 billions kilograms of C02 emissions. Not relevant here. 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. 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. Its worth remembering that data on wind and solar is available here: http://mylly.hopto.me/windineurope/wind_solar_20_countries_raw.zip. "Since 1 January, 100% of our trains are running on wind energy," said 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. Its our offshore coal burn. But how does NS know the power it imports is wind? However, early successes in rolling out the clean energy program . 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. At least they are investing in renewable energy. This question generated a number of comments in the last Blowout so I thought I would take a quick look at it. 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). The farm consists of 43 Vestas V112 turbines of 3 MW capacity each. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.. 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. [20] An additional 228 MW of capacity was installed at sea. 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. When wind power is fed into a grid it becomes inextricably mixed with all the vibrating electrons from other generation sources to the point where there is no way of knowing where any power taken from the grid came from. By using the brake to change the connections on a trains motors, they stop turning the wheels, slowing the train, and instead produce electricity that can be used elsewhere. There are very little poor people in Germany. In late 2015, the Dutch government announced its goal to power the country's electric trains entirely with wind power by 2018. The 113,3 Twh exported far exceeds the actual exports of course, but were good business for the power companies selling their power twice. It is reportedly due to the early completion of some of these farms that enabled the 100% wind target to be reached one year in advance. http://elering.ee/cross-border-physical-flows/ But none of this wind power is directly connected to the NS rail system. There is a DC interconnector (LitPol, 500 MW) between Lithuania and Poland now, and in addition the NordBalt (DC 700 MW) between Sweden and Lithuania. 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. Ive included a (slightly-edited) mini-excerpt from my recent book, Science and the City, to explain: Electric locomotives dont have conventional engines. 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). 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.. The 129 MW Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm is located 23km off the coast between Zandvoort and Noordwijk cities in the Netherlands. Just whatever serves your agenda. Under this system the government chooses locations and organizes tenders for projects of 350 MW, and project developers can offer bids for each farm. Active 2016. Homer-Dixon did not write this viral quote, but he did comment on it in a May 2018 blog post entitled: "No . Active 2016. According to DutchNews.nl, there's currently a total of 2,200 wind turbines across the country. 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. 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. 90/month for the typical 3 person household. 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). 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