SUSTAINABILITY
Through the tubes the actual cables will be laid.
Photo courtesy of Machiel Joosse.
Backbone for energy transition Verbrugge and C.RO Ports opt for green electricity The energy transition is one of the strategic key topics at North Sea Port. The port authority and many companies in the port area are taking ample initiatives aimed at a sustainable port. Two energy transition projects recently surpassed the power demand of both companies and resulted in a real technical challenge to supply this surplus to the national grid. Verbrugge International not long ago announced that 140,000 solar panels will be installed on the roofs of its warehouses in North Sea Port’s Quarleshaven and Scaldiahaven. Apart from Verbrugge, other companies at the Scaldiahaven such as Supermaritime Netherlands will freeride with the project. The amount of PV panels represents a total of 50MW of sustainable
power. The solar panels will be installed in collaboration with Kieszon. Today, this project can be considered the largest solar roof project in the Netherlands. At the same time, energy provider Eneco and C.RO Ports have agreed to have five wind turbines constructed on C.RO Ports’ car terminal at North Sea Port’s Sloehaven. The turbines will contribute 25MW of green electricity.
Considerable amount The total of 75MW is more than the two terminal operators require for their own use, and therefore the remaining electricity needs to be supplied to the national electricity grid. This is where the challenge of the two projects began. Machiel Joosse, Consultant Energy Transition at Enduris, explains, “Enduris is the network operator for the supply of natural gas and electricity in Zeeland”, Mr Joosse says. “In the summer of 2018, I had just started my new position as consultant, we were confronted with enormous requests for around 160MW of capacity within six weeks. This really is a considerable amount, given the fact that 1MW equals more or less the demand for electricity of
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