How the Netherlands became Europe’s solar power leader
In the Dutch countryside about 130 km east of Amsterdam, an unusual-looking hill towers and glistens above farmhouses, leafless trees, and muddy grassland.
The hill – 25 metres tall – is built from 15 years’ worth of household and business waste. What’s remarkable is what’s covering it: 23,000 solar panels.
Dutch solar developer TPSolar opened the array, which can produce up to 8.9 megawatts of power, in Armhoede, in the east of the Netherlands, in mid-2020.
The former landfill now generates enough electricity for about 2,500 households.
The project reflects a wider drive in the Netherlands – which now has more than 48 million solar panels installed – to find innovative places to put new renewable energy capacity.
The Netherlands today has an average of two solar panels per inhabitant – and installed capacity of more than 1 kilowatt (KW) per person – making it Europe’s per-capita solar powerhouse, according to industry association Solar Power Europe.
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