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Climate neutral gaseous and liquid energy carriers
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GAVE is a government programme that supports the development and introduction of climate-neutral fuels in the Dutch transport sector. The programme's most important task is to support the implementation of the European Renewable Energy Directive into Dutch national legislation with respect to biofuels. This EU Directive states that, by the year 2020, 10% of the energy used in the transport sector must be derived from renewable energy.
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Dutch green gas initiatives
Date published: May 3, 2012 |
In recent weeks a number of green gas initiatives have been in the news, namely:- Additional funding boost for green gas
- Energy plant in Tilburg
- Gasunie cars to run on green gas
- Green filling station in Drenthe
- Gasunie to supply green gas to the German natural gas grid
Additional funding boost for green gas
In the northern provinces of the Netherlands and the states of northern Germany, additional funding has been made available to boost the introduction of green gas. The money is intended mainly for research into the production of biogas and into the possibilities for using the gas as a transport fuel. The money must also promote cooperation between Dutch and German companies.
Energy plant in Tilburg
The Dutch regional water board Waterschap De Dommel wants to build an energy plant in its sewage treatment plant in Tilburg. The organisation plans to process sludge in an energy-neutral way. It will sell one of the by-products, namely biogas, on the market. Heijmans will design, build and maintain the factory. The investment costs are 31 million euro and the plant will become operational in March 2014.
Gasunie cars to run on green gas
Gasunie has a plan to convert its entire fleet of 284 vehicles to run on green gas. The company began with 21 vehicles used for maintenance of the gas transmission network. 'After we switched to green energy for our offices early this year, driving on green gas was the logical next step in the greening of our operations,'' chairman Paul van Gelder said recently.
Green station in Drenthe
The Drenthe entrepreneur Edward Doorten is building the Netherlands first environmentally friendly filling station. At the end of 2012 he will open the Green Planet filling station on the A28 near Pesse. Customers will be able to buy electricity, biodiesel, natural gas and biogas. Doorten wants to promote renewable fuels. The filling station will be covered with grass and will obtain its energy partly from solar panels, wind turbines and a generator that runs on rapeseed oil.
The filling station will have a direct green gas connection to the waste processor Attero in Wijster. This will allow it to supply one hundred percent green gas. Work on the pipeline began on May 15 2012.
Gasunie to supply green gas to the German natural gas grid
Northern Germany has an excess of wind power, and Greenpeace plans to use this to produce hydrogen. The wind energy will convert water into hydrogen using electrolysis. With a capacity of 1 MW and an efficiency of approximately seventy percent, the installation will be able to produce two hundred cubic metres of gas per hour. Gasunie is participating in the project and will inject the gas into the German grid. The investment costs are 1.5 million euro.
Sources: RTVDrenthe, brabantsdagblad.nl, telegraaf.nl, nuzakelijk.nl, technischweekblad.nl, TankPro.nl
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