Is getting gardening off the gas as quickly as possible needfully the unspoiled matter for the Netherlands ? That tantalizing question was posed by tomato cultivator Paul van Schie during Greenport West - Holland ’s Meet & Greet Energy .
His ardent contribution , along with that of Atoesa Farokhi , who had the noble task of representing ' society , ' stood out the most during the confluence , which also boast such familiar cries as " accelerate energy transition , " " climate neutral in 2040 " and " crucial economic sector . "
As Coordinator of External Cooperation at Amsterdam Green Campus , Atoesa dared to set decisive notes on all that was discussed . For case , it struck her that it seems as if greenhouse horticulture companies are more energy provider these day than main producers of sizeable intellectual nourishment . Is n’t that odd ?
Playing vigor supplier is not an destruction in itselfGrower Paul was willing to explain how this came about , and Jacco Besuijen , who was in the hearing on behalf of tomato grower Schenkeveld , also made a breaker point . According to the latter , it has never been the goal of cultivator to become get-up-and-go suppliers . The goal is still to develop product that are as healthy as potential . " For that , we only need a little hot water , " he say .
More and more growers , like Paul , are getting some of that hot H2O from geothermal heat sources . That ’s sustainable but sometimes expensive . And that , in turn , is difficult in a extremely competitive food market where there is always insistence on cost . So , when cultivator saw an opportunity to boil down their price damage by buy a cogeneration plant , they did so .
There will come a time when the discharge propagate ( 1 ) get unsound . Paul knows that , and that ’s what Rien Bot of AgroEnergy , the good afternoon ’s host , manoeuver out . In that casing , Paul predicts , horticulture will naturally move with the marketplace again . Rien : " The force of horticulture has always been responding well to short - terminal figure developments . "
Panel give-and-take with from left to right Paul van Schie , Sander Mertens , Frank Binnekamp , Atoesa Farokhi , and Rien Bot
Not cause off the gasolene too fastBefore the discussion between the various speakers and the audience burst , seven loudspeaker and chairman of the day , Martin van der Hout of organizer Greenport West - Holland , had all concisely assure their stories . Short , because seven speaker in an hour is a mess . It shape wonderfully well because the speakers did not go into too much deepness but rather shortly touched on matter for discussion and rumination .
Meindert Stolk , Chairman of Greenport West - Holland and Member of the Provincial Executive of the Province of South Holland kicked off in front of an interview of about fifty people . Predominantly policymakers and official , but also a handful of growers and other energy concerned people .
After Meindert , Frank van Kuppeveld , Ambassador of the Energy Agreement of Greenport West - Holland and alderman in the municipality of Pijnacker - Nootdorp , was contribute the floor . He emphasise , just as Meindert had done in other word , that shift from gas must be done in such a way of life that the horticulture itself still see it .
Peaks are a problemThings then went a small deeper in the presentation by Frank Binnekamp , chief operating officer of electrical energy society Juva . Standing in front of a traffic jam single-valued function that is turning red all the metre , he talked about grid congestion and how to solve it .
lay down the grid heavier is one solution , but not the only one . Westland , for lesson , has hardly any over-crowding , but the heavy handiness of pinch capacity for cultivator with CHP plants still have peaks in the grid , so the grid sometimes still menace to become ' full . '
The challenge is to make the best possible use of the useable capacity . Integral grid direction is what Juva is working on and working together . For example , in the building of charging place substructure . Not every man for himself , but jointly , take in it easier to balance blossom and troughs in the entire system of rules .
Sander Mertens , Professor of Energy in Transition at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and director of the Centre of Expertise Mission Zero , recommend peril mitigation in a story about the muscularity organisation of the future . exactly puzzle out the peak , about 100 days a class in the case , is expensive . Only by attend at adjustment in storage and supplying together with time direction and beef up the power grid can the problem really be solved , according to Sander .
extremum are expensiveRien Bot ’s talking revolved around the decarbonization of the energy mix . There was an account of the deservingness social club , in which push sources are place according to price or degree of contamination .
The energy transition will stimulate things to shift in the merit order . There will be more current of air and solar energy , but the consequence will be that a broken mass of gasolene - render electrical energy will entail that when it is really needed , electrical energy father from gas will be a heap more expensive than now .
Paul van Schie of the Lycopersicon esculentum growing company Fa . L.A. van Schie then inaugurate the audience to his tomato - farm company and specially his geothermal heat labor , Nature ’s Heat . In his talk , he pointed out how he sees challenge in making the last approximately 20 percentage of his heat need more sustainable .
Growers defend Dutch tomatoAtoesa Farokhi of Amsterdam Green Campus pull the audience back from the energy and greenhouse jargon for a moment . She challenge those present to explain the horticulture and vim transition . In doing so , she determine the stage for the panel treatment observe briefly above .
In that panel give-and-take , Paul , in particular , represent the sector with the arguments those of us within the sphere are now conversant with . Outside the sphere , many of those facts are not known . " What note value is really behind this part of nursery horticulture company as Energy Department provider , " Atoesa therefore wanted to know .
Paul and Jacco responded by point out how progressive Dutch gardening is . There was also a abbreviated treatment about what is really better : tomatoes from the Netherlands or import tomatoes from abroad if growing them here is unimaginable . What the growers think about this is cleared .
The price of heatBut it has to remain possible . " If the heat from geothermic heat be 50 euro cent per cubic meter in some projects , then I do interest , " Paul let slip . As far as he is bear on , 30 euro cents is the limit . Waste heat from the Rotterdam harbour , which is being talk over , should not cost more than 20 euro cents if it is up to the growers .
( 1 ) Spark spread is the difference between the fruit of electricity on the wholesale market and the cost of the raw fabric used to acquire that electricity .
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