{"id":2931,"date":"2022-12-15T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/12\/15\/amsterdam-the-challenge-for-an-energy-port\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:39:00","slug":"amsterdam-the-challenge-for-an-energy-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/products-services\/amsterdam-the-challenge-for-an-energy-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam: The Challenge for an Energy Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThe Port of Amsterdam is really an energy port; two-thirds of our cargo is related to oil products or coal, so that means we have quite a challenge to achieve our goals,\u201d he said. The big step was a decision in 2016 to phase out coal-handling through the port by 2030: \u201cThat means you have to look for a viable and clean alternative.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amsterdam is aiming to be \u2018at the forefront of the transition\u2019 and ultimately aims to evolve into a European hydrogen hub, he said. \u201cThe focus for us is very much on hydrogen. Green hydrogen is deemed vital for the decarbonisation of the three main industrial clusters in the port region.\u201d At present, Tata Steel uses 5m tonnes of coal a year; Schiphol airport, directly connected by pipeline, consumes 4m tonnes of aviation fuel; and port activities, including bunkering, consume 45m tonnes of fossil fuels. \u201cWe have a number of green hydrogen facilities being developed in the port, courtesy of the large offshore wind farms in the North Sea. However, total demand that will happen in the Netherlands means we can never provide enough for the hinterland. We are looking at fostering relationships to be able to import green hydrogen into the port.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final speaker, Mark Hoolwerf, deputy director of the Port of Amsterdam gave clarity on the enormous impact of Net Zero.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[10,757,683],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products-services","tag-hydrogen","tag-net-zero","tag-port-of-amsterdam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}