CSR examples

Below you will find a list of examples of TenneT’s efforts in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility, both in our daily operations and in society.

People

• Continuous made-to-measure education and training programmes for staff.
• Annual training programmes for staff. The training courses are linked to so-called lifestyle programmes.
• Lectures on the energy supply chain for university students. Organised in collaboration with three universities of applied sciences: The Hague University, HAN University and Windesheim University. 
• TenneT has been involved in the establishment of the Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Chair is currently held by the German chemist Prof. Dr Michael Braungart, one of the initiators of the C2C concept.
• Via the Close the Gap foundation, TenneT donates its old computers to people in developing countries.     

Planet

• Ring-shaped structure over land
  From a study of various possible scenarios for the future it has appeared that having a strong 380 kV ring-shaped structure over land is essential for the realisation of a sustainable energy supply. New connections realised by TenneT, such as North-West 380 kV, South-West 380 kV and Randstad 380 kV, contribute to this.
• Off-shore grid
  The Dutch Cabinet wants to have over 6,000 MW of off-shore wind energy by 2020. To connect this wind energy to the Dutch electricity grid, TenneT is working on a clever way to incorporate it into the existing high-voltage grid. 
• Renewable Grid Initiative 
  The Renewable Grid Initiative (RGI) promotes the capacity expansion that is required to generate and transmit renewable energy on a large scale within Europe. This is one of the European initiatives TenneT is participating in to promote the development of renewable energy.
• Electric cars
  The E-Laad.nl foundation is a joint initiative of the Dutch grid administrators, including TenneT. TenneT wants to gain experience with the possibilities for charging electric cars in relation to the balancing of supply and demand. 
• Plant and animal life
  We take the environment in which we work into consideration, for instance by using plants and trees to keep electricity substations out of sight. When doing so we make the fullest possible allowance for the pre‑existing natural environment.    

Profit

• Wintrack pylon
  The innovative design of the Wintrack pylon significantly reduces the electromagnetic fields generated by high‑voltage lines. 
• Bird flight diverters
  As part of a pilot project, we have suspended bird flight diverters from an existing 150 kV line at Hazerswoude-Dorp, across a distance of 1 kilometre. This way we are aiming to prevent birds from flying into the lines, thus greatly reducing the number of bird casualties. 
• Below-ground 380 kV lines 
  Society requires us to be inventive, also when installing cable connections underground. 
  And indeed we are: at 20 kilometres, the new underground 380 kV cable in the Randstad region is the longest of its type anywhere in the world. Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology are conducting further studies into the possibilities for below-ground connections. At the moment the length of the cables is limited by the risks to voltage stability and the grid’s security of supply.    

Downloads

Corporate Social Responsibility at TenneT (brochure) (pdf 1,85 Mb)