Schiphol and 3 other Dutch airports will run on renewables alone in 2018

The airports of the Dutch group Schiphol, which are located in Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Lelystad, They will work 100% with renewable energy from January 1, 2018, after an agreement signed between that conglomerate and the energy company Eneco.

According to the ANP news agency, Schiphol signed a pact to long term with the electricity supplier so that their airports are powered only by sustainable energy generated in the Netherlands.

Airports

More or less, the four airports use about 200 GW / h of energy each year, which is comparable to the consumption of about 60.000 homes. The agreement establishes that Eneco will supply that energy for the next 15 years.

Initially, the energy for the airports will come in part from renewable sources existing in the country, but from 2020 they will be powered exclusively by newly built wind farms.

offshore wind farm for obtaining renewable energy

According to the CEO of Eneco, Jeroen de Haas: “For the energy transition it is crucial that the business world, the biggest consumer of energy, embrace sustainability.

Important offers such as the one from the Schiphol group enable energy providers to invest in renewable energy generation, such as the installation of new wind farms. As already mentioned on this page, in Holland lately there have been other great achievements as the railway network works 100% with wind energy.

Wind trains

wind train

The change was not expected to come until 2018, but the Dutch (Netherlands) authorities announced that their entire train fleet now runs XNUMX% on wind power.  Officially, since January 1 of this year 2017, All trains running on the tracks in the Netherlands are powered by clean energy generated from renewable sources. To be exact, from this year all trains run on electricity generated by huge wind farms distributed in the fields of Holland, Belgium, Finland or Sweden.

Despite good Dutch conditions, wind energy is not only dedicated to trains and The country does not have enough turbines to meet its needs. So half is generated within and the rest is purchased from suppliers in other countries as we have commented previously. There it has contributed to the construction of new wind turbines, and this investment ensures that imported electricity (via land or undersea cables) comes from windmills rather than other non-renewable sources. To prove it, the VIVENS association must have a certificate official that indicates the origin of the energy and its sustainability, as well as the name of the seller, before bringing the electricity to the Netherlands.

Netherlands

The origins of this clean energy project date back to 2015, when the NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the main railway company in the country) reached an agreement with the other companies in the sector to reduce the harmful effects of pollution generated by the energy sources that at that time fed the trains. The goal was to become 100% dependent on renewable energy sources by 2018, but they have managed to achieve their purpose a year ahead of schedule.

In the case of the main railway company in the country, the NS, this company transports more than 600.000 passengers throughout the country every day. This figure, translated into energy consumption, is equivalent to one demand of 1,2 TWh of electricity each year.

 Amsterdam

In short, the mileage covered by Dutch trains needs 1.400 billion kilowatt-hours per year, an amount similar to that consumed by all households in Amsterdam. A windmill averages 7.500.00 kilowatt-hours per year. And an hour on the road is enough to load a train route of about 200 kilometers. The data are from the electric and gas company Eneco, the same company that made the agreement with Schiphol discussed in the first part of the article.

Given that the country's companies are not able to meet one hundred percent of the demand for renewable energy, much of the wind energy that powers these trains comes from abroad.

But that does not detract from the news, since half of the electricity that powers these trains is expected to come from parks. Of the 1,2 TWh per year that the trains need to operate, 450 MWh will come from a plant located in the municipality of Noordoostpolder and another 129 MWh will come from Luchterduinen.

NS (Nederlandse Spoorwegen)

To celebrate this news, the president of the railway company NS -Roger van Boxtel- It has been seen in a curious video in which it appears attached to a mill while the propellers begin to turn due to the effect of the wind, all at the same time as a company train passes in front of the mill. Of course, there are reasons enough for joy.


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