Since 1 January 2017, all Dutch electric trains are now powered by wind energy. Dutch electricity company Eneco won a tender offered by NS two years ago and the two companies signed a 10-year deal setting January 2018 as the date by which all NS trains should run on wind energy. So they reached their goal a year earlier than planned, partly due to an increase in the number of wind farms across the country and off the coast of the Netherlands who helped NS achieve its aim. Around 600,000 passengers daily are “the first in the world” to travel thanks to wind energy. NS operates about 5,500 train trips a day. One windmill running for an hour can power a train for 120 miles, the companies said. They hope to reduce the energy used per passenger by a further 35% by 2020 compared with 2005.