Royal FrieslandCampina and Essent conclude an electricity contract: over 400 GWh
Den Bosch, 19 January 2010 – Dairy products concern RoyalFriesland Campina and Essent have concluded a contract for the supply of electricity.
The dairy products concern will buy over 400 GWh of electricity1 in 2011 and 2012 and will supply over 40 GWh of electricity2 back to the power company by means of a CHP installation. Currently, Essent supplies gas to part of FrieslandCampina.
‘It is the biggest electricity contract of its type that our department has concluded up to now’, says Erik Vink of Essent Grootzakelijk, the department focused on the business market. ‘We will not only supply electricity, but also research the possibilities for providing energy advice to the dairy farmers who supply milk to FrieslandCampina. Advice on, for example, mini wind turbines and the production of Green Gas, which is produced from organic waste via fermentation and gasification and processed into natural gas quality’.
For FrieslandCampina, the contract is also interesting. ‘For us it is important that a supplier thinks along with operational management and is therefore flexible’, says Ernst van der Vlist on behalf of the dairy products concern. ‘Essent thinks along with us and has experience with clients in agriculture and cattle farming. It appeals to us that the company is looking further than just fulfilling the contract. In Essent, we see a long-term partner at the forefront of the energy sector’. Energy broker Energie Makelaar B.V. mediated for the realisation of the contract with FrieslandCampina.
Essent is relying on collaboration with agriculturalists and dairy farmers for the production of Green Gas. Last year, Essent concluded contracts with the Suiker Unie and the Haagse Tram Maatschappij, among others, for the purchase and delivery of Green Gas.
1A combined electricity/heat production (CHP) plant produces heat and electricity simultaneously in one plant and uses less fuel than for separate energy production.
2With this amount, around 130,000 households can be supplied with electricity.