Netherlands builds renewable energy infrastructure to tackle climate change

Record ID: 1686378

  • Title: Netherlands builds renewable energy infrastructure to tackle climate change
  • Date: 26th August 2022
  • Summary: SCHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS (AUGUST 25, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WIND TURBINES AT WIND FARM BY SWEDISH ENERGY COMPANY VATTENFALL OFFSHORE TRANSFORMER PLATFORM BEING BUILT BY VATTENFALL TO CONNECT THE WINDTURBINES TO THE SHORE (SOUNDBITE) (English) DUTCH GRID OPERATOR TENNET CEO, MANON VAN BEEK, SAYING: "If you look at the platform here behind me, that's a 700-Megawatt platform. If you look at what we have to do, it's that only here in the Netherlands we're going to connect more than 20 Gigawatts (of wind power) before 2030. And that is equivalent to let's say more or less 20 powerplants or it's the same as the usage of an average household of 20 million households." OFFSHORE TRANSFORMER PLATFORM UNDER CONSTRUCTION
  • Embargoed: 9th September 2022 18:08
  • Keywords: Energy Green Neptune Energy Netherlands North Sea Oceans of Energy PosHYdon TenneT Transition Wind turbine coast construction electricity floating solar panel hydrogen infrastructure natural gas pipeline renewable sea turbine wind wind farm
  • Location: SCHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS
  • City: SCHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Topics: Environment,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001081926082022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The Netherlands is building its renewable energy infrastructure as projects including wind turbines, floating solar panels, and green hydrogen under construction off the Dutch coast.
    On a tour of North Sea facilities on Thursday (August 25), companies and Dutch utilities showed off key projects.
    At Hollandse Kust Zuid, a 1.5 gigawatt (GW) wind farm scheduled for completion next year, ten out of the 140 turbines are already producing electricity. Sweden's Vattenfall made headlines when it won the concession to build the farm in 2018 without government subsidy.
    Electricity from the farm is converted to a higher voltage and sent to shore from a station completed in July by Dutch grid operator TenneT.
    "That's a 700-Megawatt platform. If you look at what we have to do, it's that only here in the Netherlands we're going to connect more than 20 gigawatts (of wind power) before 2030," said Manon van Beek, TenneT’s CEO, pointing to the HKZ "Alpha" station.
    Other projects at the North Sea include "Oceans of Energy" - a 1 megawatt (MW) cluster of floating solar panels.
    CEO Allard van Hoeken said the design is "not so far" from being economically viable, thanks to falling solar panel costs. He has plans to build 3MW and 50MW projects next.
    At the nearby "PosHYdon" project, Neptune Energy is preparing to convert electricity to hydrogen and send it to shore via existing natural gas pipelines.
    While that process is currently uneconomical, engineers believe in the long run electricity will be cheap, and it may make sense to convert some to hydrogen for use in transport or steel-making.
    (Production: Piroschka van de Wouw, Clement Rossignol, Sophia Wang)
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