1000 new electricity houses are arriving in Amsterdam: “A road view”
Residents of Amsterdam Oud-West and South are not happy about the arrival of electricity houses in their neighbourhood. Mainly because it’s ugly and ruins the view. Still we will go much more often. In order to keep the power consumption in the right direction, about a thousand transformers will be added in the years to come.
According to grid operator Liander, the electricity grid must be due to housing construction and the energy transition for extended become. beside the city council wants no more petrol and diesel cars in the city by 2030 and that all households have stopped using natural gas by 2040. In short, more electricity houses must be added in the city at a rapid pace.
Ugly
Siem Vaessen lives in the Bellamybuurt and is annoyed by the new transformer house on the square with him. “Firstly, it is in the middle of a footpath. Secondly, it is quite ugly. Thirdly, why here and not in a parking space,” says Vaessen.
“Are we going to place those things in the middle of Dam Square soon, because it’s so handy?”
Last September there were plans to build a transformer house in the Breughelstraat, but the neighborhood absolutely did not want this. She went in protest sit in the pit where the house would be. The arrival of the house did not go through. Whether it really will ever come remains to be seen.
Tito Hattem was one of the local residents who was in the pit. “We are afraid that the street will open again if someone does not pay attention,” he says. “Then you have a problem”. He does see a solution on the Apollolaan. There is an electricity house with a hedge and far away from houses. “Then nobody will have the last of it”, he says next to the house.
Reaction Liander:
“We have started to use more electricity. Think of electric cars and solar panels. That means more transformer houses. Otherwise you can’t use it. We have one of the most reliable electricity networks in the world, but when it comes to transformer houses, we see that people have a ‘not in my backyard’ mentality.”
Streets will open until 2050
“We would also like to point out that one in three streets will have to be broken up until 2050. Hundreds of kilometers of extra electricity cables will be built in the city. There will be 29 new large electricity stations and therefore a thousand transformer houses. That is an enormous renovation of the We try as much as possible with the municipality to listen to residents and entrepreneurs, but it is difficult to please everyone.”
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