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Europe’s largest electric boiler will be built in Amsterdam
Europe’s largest electric boiler will be built in Amsterdam and set in 2024 by Vattenfall
Vattenfall, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of electricity and heat in Europe with plants in Holland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain and France, has announced it will be installing a maxi 150 MW electric boiler at its plant in Diemen near Amsterdam.
Vattenfall will be able to go forward with the project thanks to the permit obtained from the Ministry of Economy and Climate Policies and the subsidy received under the SDE++ scheme, which aims to stimulate sustainable energy production and the energy transition to reduce CO2 emissions.
The company, which had already built, in 2019, a 120 MW electric boiler in Berlin, currently the largest installed in Vattenfall’s plants, is now working on other projects that regard the use of renewable sources to produce heat, such as biomass, geothermics and thermal water.
The final decision to build the largest electric boiler in Europe will be taken by Vattenfall in mid-2022, after the SDE++ subsidy tender closes, and according to the company, the boiler will start operating beginning 2024.
To produce heat, the maxi-boiler will use solar and wind energy sources and it will function much like a boiler: the installation will turn electricity into hot water, which could be supplied to families and companies in and around Amsterdam, or stored in an existing heat buffer for times of higher demand. Vattenfall expects the electric boiler to meet 15% of the demand for heat in the Amsterdam region.
“The e-boiler only switches on if the electricity mix is sustainable, with a lot of electricity from solar and wind. When there is insufficient green energy, the gas-fired power plants in Diemen are still needed to produce electricity – power plants that also supply heat very efficiently. We expect that these gas-fired plants will remain necessary in the coming decades for security of supply in the Netherlands; first on natural gas, but later hydrogen from renewable sources”, says Alexander van Ofwegen, Director of Heat Vattenfall Netherlands.
Vattenfall will be able to go forward with the project thanks to the permit obtained from the Ministry of Economy and Climate Policies and the subsidy received under the SDE++ scheme, which aims to stimulate sustainable energy production and the energy transition to reduce CO2 emissions.
The company, which had already built, in 2019, a 120 MW electric boiler in Berlin, currently the largest installed in Vattenfall’s plants, is now working on other projects that regard the use of renewable sources to produce heat, such as biomass, geothermics and thermal water.
The final decision to build the largest electric boiler in Europe will be taken by Vattenfall in mid-2022, after the SDE++ subsidy tender closes, and according to the company, the boiler will start operating beginning 2024.
To produce heat, the maxi-boiler will use solar and wind energy sources and it will function much like a boiler: the installation will turn electricity into hot water, which could be supplied to families and companies in and around Amsterdam, or stored in an existing heat buffer for times of higher demand. Vattenfall expects the electric boiler to meet 15% of the demand for heat in the Amsterdam region.
“The e-boiler only switches on if the electricity mix is sustainable, with a lot of electricity from solar and wind. When there is insufficient green energy, the gas-fired power plants in Diemen are still needed to produce electricity – power plants that also supply heat very efficiently. We expect that these gas-fired plants will remain necessary in the coming decades for security of supply in the Netherlands; first on natural gas, but later hydrogen from renewable sources”, says Alexander van Ofwegen, Director of Heat Vattenfall Netherlands.
