17 February 2025

GreenTrust Annual Report 2024

GreenTrust Annual Report 2024 GreenTrust is looking back on an eventful 2024. We celebrated our 10th anniversary last year and gained a new management team. Meanwhile, work went on as usual, including the start of construction of Citizen Wind Farm A2 Lage Rooijen and the management of many wind and solar farms. In the annual ... GreenTrust Annual Report 2024
4 February 2025

Energy landscape: balancing energy supply and demand

A wind and/or solar farm combined with battery storage is not new. Locally sourcing buyers for renewable energy is also becoming more and more obvious. But what if we go one step further? If we locally link electricity, storage and other energy systems, such as a heat grid or charging plaza? Then we will create a place where energy supply and demand are in balance: the energy landscape of the future. GreenTrusters Sjoerd Dijk and Christian Holdert are committed to developing energy landscapes. They take a broad view of where opportunities exist to connect energy supply and demand. And seek - with help from the local knowledge of entrepreneurs - integrated solutions.
9 January 2025

The importance of ice detection in wind turbines

The importance of ice detection in wind turbines At Windpark Eemshaven Zuidoost, in the highest point of Groningen, we had to close the road near a wind turbine last year due to ice formation. This required coordination between four parties: the road manager, the environmental service, surrounding businesses and the company managing the ice detection ... The importance of ice detection in wind turbines
18 December 2024

Quick action, minimal damage

Quick action, minimal damage How our management team handles unexpected situations An unexpected report from the neighborhood: “There are people walking across the solar farm, but we don’t know if they belong here.” Immediately our management team switched gears. The systems were checked for anomalies in, for example, the park’s production, an invigilator was called ... Quick action, minimal damage
13 December 2024

Local cooperation as an engine for energy transition

Local cooperation as an engine for energy transition Realizing a sustainable energy project together with the local community, how does that work in practice? We explain our approach and why technical and social solutions go hand in hand. A group of about fifty enthusiasts gathers with coffee and cake at the construction site of Citizen ... Local cooperation as an engine for energy transition
Written by Eva de Zeeuw
12 December 2024

Working together for the wind

Interview with De Knotwilg Let Energy Cooperative De Knotwilg blow instead of prune. For this energy cooperative, the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts. A conversation about cooperative values and norms. We are going to do it together feeling “Co-founder Jos van Oosten had contact with Eneco who wanted to place ... Working together for the wind