When read about the diminish crude oil cost and a surplusage of ( dark-green ) electrical energy , one live that these are strange times . Receiving money when purchase power , because energy supplier have too much , is not a Zion at the minute . Not for consumers , but sure as shooting not for major substance abuser like the greenhouse gardening . " A negative price for electrical energy for more than five hr is something we ’ve never seen before " , says Hans Sonneveld with Enova who explain how growers can get ' nice returns ' out of the purchase of both electricity and accelerator .
At the end of February , Hans announced acollaboration with grid hustler TenneT(article in Dutch ) , for regulating capacity , which is another way to balance the power system next to emergency capacity , to make a net profit as a grower . " You ’d ask that with these unknown times , it would go really fast with parking brake and regulation capacity , but the opposite is true " , says Hans . " Apparently the vigour market place is still so balanced that there is n’t a demand for a lot of emergency or regulating electrical capacity , and grower are n’t more often asked to help the power system operator with proportionality problems on the grid . "
Negative APX - prices electricity for hoursDespite the relative residuum on the Dutch grid , there ’s a lot go on for the discipline optic to see . " A electronegative electricity price for more than five hours at energy trade APX , that has never chance before . What is important , though , is that the APX price runs one mean solar day ahead , so you have to anticipate on this , it ’s not possible to just jump in when it happens . "
Closing and making profitAnd yet , there ’s certainly a profit to make for the agriculturist , who , with or without the help of energy specialists from for instance Enova , who buys energy at very low or even negative prices . That does n’t take emergency or regulation mental ability . " As a grower you could make your own determination to turn the heating down a slight when you ’re trying to slow up your ontogenesis down for the current market situation , or to turn the spark on , although that does n’t make very much sentience with this cheery weather . "
Another option is of a more or less more technical nature . " For quarter 2 , our client have often already sell the electrical energy that is free when they run their CHP and have sometimes already take up posture two years ago . If the grower reconciles that position , with the price agreed at the time in an OTC deal , with the current low APX prices for electrical energy , you could well reckon the remainder . Subsequently , returning to the imbalance marketplace mean that trading net income can be made " .
Although emergency and regulation capacity are n’t used that often , the Leontyne Price in the market are safe . " Not as good as in 2018 , but high . Of the two varieties there are of emergency and regulating capacity , you see that mostly the regulating part is not or barely used . "
Bottom damage gasAnd the oil prices are low too . What can a grower do with that ? " With fossil oil not that much , but there is a correlation with the gas prices and those are very downhearted as well , peculiarly on the daily market . When in the beginning of this century the gas market was liberalised , a three-dimensional meter cost a dime and everyone was say that we ’d never see those terms again . Now the gas cost has lowered down to about six euro cent , a real bottom price for which gas producers can apparently barely bring forth in a profitable way . "
Storage bigger ' problem ' than low-toned gasoline priceCritics , mostly ones that are n’t in gardening themselves , will part yell that low gas prices slow down the sustainable development . allot to Hans , that ’s not true . " If there is a brake on sustainable development in the innovative greenhouse horticulture , it ’s the ODE ( reposition sustainable energy ) . That tax on storage of sustainable vim make the enthusiasm to transfer to , for instance , all electric greenhouses , quite a number lower at the moment . Of course , entrepreneurs have dissimilar motivations for sustainable development , and that sure is n’t just about the money . "
supplication for the CHPFurthermore , the Netherlands likely ca n’t do without fossil fuel for decades , says Hans . " That is because we are so far by from being able to store all the sustainable vigour , both technical and economic . lease ’s be positive about the greenhouse horticulture where CHPs work that have the highest industrious profit of all the known fossil ways of making electricity . Those are the unity you should cease last of all dodo sources . "
Every last bitOne way or another , electricity user , flatulency users and electricity and gaseous state exploiter , can make money off of the current vigour developments . " We know we attempt , as always , to get every last fleck out of it for the customer , and that goes very well at this present moment " , resolve Hans , while calling to cultivator to keep follow the market place developments tight . " And yes , in the battlefield of CO2 as well . The enceinte manufacture is in maintenance for the come time , so we ’ll have to wait and see what that is going to do for the provision of CO2 . "
Hans Sonneveld[email protected ]
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