The government wants to stop funding wood-based biomass plants as soon as possible. According to TNO, should the government abruptly replace wood biomass with alternative energy sources, expenditure could rise by 2.7 billion euros. Many biomass plants currently rely on government subsidies to remain profitable. In the next subsidy round starting in the autumn, the government has decided to exclude …
Swedish power company Vattenfall plans to build a massive water boiler using green electricity to supply heating and hot water to residents of Amsterdam, Almere, and Diemen. The installation will be much more powerful than a controversial biomass power station that Vattenfall previously intended to build in Diemen, newspaper Volkskrant reported. Volkskrant suggested that with the newly announced water boiler …
Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, voiced her protest against plans for the construction of a biomass plant in Diemen. Thunberg worried about the high CO2 emissions the plant commissioned by the Swedish energy company, Vattenfall, would produce. In her tweet, Thunberg quoted an investigative report from a Swedish newspaper which stated, “Every year more than 200 thousand tons of wood …
