Solar power for dairy processing at FrieslandCampina

AMSTERDAM - Henk Kamp, the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, granted over 200 million euro SDE+ subsidy for the installation of solar panels at the roofs of FrieslandCampina member dairy farms. This will make it possible to install more than 416,000 solar panels at 310 dairy farms. With a combined total surface exceeding 100 football pitches, these panels will generate more than 20 percent of the electricity for the Dutch plants and offices of the dairy company. This equals 33,000 average households. GroenLeven Heerenveen will install the panels.

This subsidy allocation is an important step in the FrieslandCampina Solar programme, aimed at accelerating the installation of solar panels at dairy farms. A major result of the Solar programme is the ‘roof rent solution’ developed in cooperation with GroenLeven. The ambition of FrieslandCampina is to generate sufficient green electricity at the farm yards to fully cover the use of electricity within the chain and thus contributing to achieve climate neutral growth in 2020. Therefore FrieslandCampina stimulates the production of green electricity by offering dairy farmers a 10 euro bonus for each ton reduction of CO₂ emission.

Read more at FrieslandCampina.