Geothermal heating for growing vegetables in greenhouses, solar and seedbeds.

Their customers are from Holland, Germany, Europe, USA and Japan. Pieter WIJNEN, his brother are integrated vegetable crops. This means that trying to grow in a more sustainable in terms of energy, water and conventional pesticides. Consumers are increasingly concerned about food safety, sustainability and the environment. Their company is trying to take into account as much as possible these concerns.

To date gas used to heat greenhouses, but they eat so much gas. There is a new technology: geothermal energy; can dig a deep well of 2 km. There the water has a temperature of 80 ° C. Then, hot water is pumped to heat greenhouses. This results in a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions. Brothers Wijnen received a grant of 15% of the EU for their project on the use of geothermal energy. This helped to get easy loans from banks to finance the project.

It comes down to one thing: consumers want increasingly more producers to take care of nature. There is pollution in agriculture, but the way they are now working on Venlo greenhouses Wijnen Square Crops is much greener than in the past. Because it is a relatively large company, it means they can use technologies like geothermal energy.