The Dutch governing is working hard to achieve mood target . For this purpose , the so - scream climate tables discuss the measure that different sphere can take and which upshot they have . Greenhouse gardening is an important thespian within the climate mesa Agriculture . The Greenhouse Horticulture business unit of measurement of Wageningen University & Research has been asked to bear out scenario studies with the object of finally trim down the use of fogy Department of Energy to 0 .
Horticulture is intimately linked to the Dutch zip infrastructure . This is primarily due to the fact that the sector is an vigor - intensive manufacture : presently , horticultural businesses use around 3 billion m³ of natural gas per year . That flatulency consumption is for heating , but for a heavy part also for the yield of electrical energy . Electricity for use on the farm ( specially ignition ) , but also for pitch to the public grid .
The Dutch government is germinate a policy to contract CO2 emissions at a profligate pace , so that our country can come across the climate goals of Paris . For gardening this means a substantial reduction in the use of rude gun . The ultimate goal is to no longer expend fossil energy and to amply transpose to sustainable energy .
At the same meter , strong horticulture is important for the Dutch economy . That is why representatives from government and horticultural organizations attempt to produce policies in good audience to reduce CO2 emissions without harm the perspective for the sector .
In such negotiations objective figures and literal expectations of developing are of great grandness . In the ' Horticulture without fossil vigour ' project , Wageningen University & Research , together with Agro Advies Bureau ( AAB ) , investigated the various hypothesis . The enquiry is fund by ' Greenhouse as Energy Source ' the innovation and action programme of the Ministry of Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality and LTO Glaskracht Nederland and co - finance by the Foundation Program Greenhouse Horticulture .
The report is almost ready and offers a clear view of the possibilities . The main bank line is that ontogenesis with which there is already some experience ( such as the use of geothermic energy , industrial residual heat and warmth / dusty storage ) can and will be applied on a prominent scale . And that the CHP installing now used everywhere , with which plantsman produce heating , electricity and CO2 for their harvest , will disappear .
From an important electrical energy producer , horticulture will thus change in the direction of a bombastic electrical energy user . This despite the wait developments in LED lighting . The inclination to focus more and more and the increasing part of heat pump is stronger than the net income that can be achieved with more muscularity - effective organisation . The fact that glasshouse have some flexibility in the use of electrical energy for ignition means that horticulture can also play a use in the balancing of the electricity grid .
An authoritative conclusion is also that measure that growers are now take in the direction of sustainability keep back their value in the future . For example , a step - by - whole tone development can take place that fits within the prevailing market conditions and eventually results in fossil - innocent gardening .
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