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REDSTACK PASSED THE START-UP PHASE A LONG TIME AGO...
Blue Energy ready for the world
They were founded within the walls
“When I drive along the Afsluitdijk and
the Minister of Economic Affairs
of Wetsus. In the last fifteen years,
see our plant, I don’t see the technology
heralded the company as a ‘National
they worked passionately on the
or the scale”, says Pieter Hack, the
Icon’. Nevertheless, Peter Hack is
development of Reverse ElectroDialysis
man who took a pioneering gamble
less interested in REDstack’s role in
(RED), leading to the creation of the
and invested in REDstack fifteen years
promoting the Netherlands and more
famous finished product, ‘Blue Energy’.
ago. “The feeling that overwhelms me
interested in what it can do for the
Their pilot plant on the Afsluitdijk is
is inspiration. I am grateful that our
world. “The world desperately needs
impressive, if only due to the scale of
assumptions have been correct so far,
clean energy. We need to get rid of
it. Today, REDstack, a member of the
and that RED is already working so well
fossil fuels. Wind and solar energy
Water Alliance, has long outgrown the
at this pilot scale. I believe that we are
are on the rise, and other sustainable
start-up phase. The technology has
ready to quickly scale up to a 0.5 MW
sources are under development. There
proven itself, and a step up to a large
[megawatt] demo site and a 50 MW
is also a beautiful place there for Blue
demo site and the rollout to the world
plant as our first commercial installation.
Energy. Our technology offers power
is imminent. For investor Pieter Hack,
After that, the world will be ours.”
companies and governments clean
it means that a return is finally in sight
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energy which, in addition to emitting
after fifteen years of pioneering. And
REDstack’s fame was already on
zero CO2, can be supplied continuously,
yet, that is not his main motive.
the rise, especially after 2016, when
regardless of weather and without the
