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All electric Dutch trains are now 100 percent powered by electricity generated by wind energy, the Netherlands’ national railway company NS said, calling it a world first.
‘Since the first of January, 100 percent of our trains are running on wind energy,’ NS spokesman Ton Boon told AFP.
Dutch electricity company Eneco won a tender launched by NS two years ago and the two firms signed a 10-year deal setting January 2018 as the date by which all NS trains should run on wind energy.
