Netherlands - or should it be called Windmill Country has 100 percent of its electric trains being run on wind energy.
Since the beginning of this year, 600,000 regular train passengers have been travelling with no carbon footprint, according to an announcement made by the Netherlands principal passenger railway operator.
Dutch electric trains operate on 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy whose supplier is ENECO, a sustainable energy supplier.
Eneco had first announced its plan for a wind-powered railway system back in 2015 to cut down on carbon emissions. The original plan was to have the trains transit to a 100 percent clean energy by 2018, however, after having reached 75 percent in 2016 the target was moved up. Owing to our good fortune, their initial goal was met one year ahead of its schedule.
Eneco says that the power used by the trains comes from a newly built system of wind farms in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Belgium.
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