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Windunie

Windunie offers its customers authentic 100% wind energy; it even provides information about the location of the turbine generating their energy. Customers know that by choosing Windunie energy, they’re extending the use of clean energy across the Netherlands’ national grid.

Collective Power

Windunie is a collective producing wind power for use in various regions in the Netherlands. The energy producers are typically farmers generating additional revenue from their land. Windunie offers its clients a guarantee about the origins and the clean credentials of its generation. And, Windunie customers can choose which turbine they want to purchase electricity from. Their choice is acknowledged with a Windunie’s passport listing full details of the farmer who owns the turbine.

The electricity Windunie generates is fed into the national grid. It is, as Windunie explains, like a bucket of clean water thrown into a pool of dirty water. The more buckets of clean water, the cleaner the pool. Of course, once the energy is all one grid, customers can’t really isolate which energy comes streaming into their home or office. But, by declaring themselves to be a customer of a specific turbine, customers are articulating a choice that is being met by a growing demand. At its outset in 2001 Windunie had fifty energy-producing members delivering four Megawatts to the national grid. Today there are 230 energy-producing members delivering 380 MW.

Windunie indexes its prices to other local energy providers, ensuring that Windunie customers’ costs are on par with their neighbors. Windunie recently started its own retail arm. Currently approximately 80% of Windunie-generated energy is sold by contract to Essent and other electricity supply companies, including Greenchoice.

 

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