14 October 2016
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A unique partnership has been set up
in which four leading companies,
including AkzoNobel,
have made a long-term agreement
to jointly source power
from renewable energy projects
for part of their operations in the Netherlands.
Formed two years ago together with
DSM, Google and Philips,
the consortium’s first agreement
is to buy electricity from Windpark Krammer,
which was established by two cooperatives
together with 4,000 members
in the province of Zeeland and
the island of Goeree-Overflakkee.
The four companies have agreed to source
a total of 350,000,000 kWh a year
once Windpark Krammer
becomes operational in 2019.
This is equivalent to the total annual consumption
of 100,000 Dutch households.
It’s the first time
that a group of multinational companies
in the Netherlands has teamed up with local citizens
to create what is effectively
a consumer-to-business energy partnership.
WWW.CHEMWINFO.COM BY KHUN PHICHAI
