Jan 23, 2024 at 8:47 AM Update: 37 minutes ago
Grid operator Stedin has a record number of solar panels connected to homes in the provinces of Utrecht, South Holland and Zeeland last year. This involves approximately 1.7 million new solar panels, almost half a million more than a year earlier.
Converted, a capacity of 599 megawatt peak of solar panels will have been installed in 2023, Stedin reports. The grid operator speaks of a new annual record.
Stedin is responsible for the gas and electricity grid in three provinces, where 145,000 residents will have connected new solar panels in 2023. As a result, almost 600,000 consumers in the area now have solar panels.
According to the grid operator, this produces enough electricity to power all homes in South Holland at noon on a sunny day. But then there must be enough space on the overcrowded power grid. Due to the growth in the number of solar panels, solar inverters still often fail.
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Stedin’s advice is to use the generated energy directly as much as possible, for example by washing when the sun shines.
Next year, the grid operator will install 700 kilometers of new cables in streets so that more electricity can flow through it. The provinces will also receive approximately four hundred new transformer houses in 2024.
In total, the Netherlands needs tens of thousands of new transformer houses with approximately 100,000 kilometers of additional electricity cables. The EU will also require that all charging stations and heat pumps become smart, so that they consume electricity at favorable times – and not all at the same time.
2024-01-23 07:47:00
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