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emielvandruten.bsky.social
Energy System Scenario Developer @TenneT TSO ⚡ Full time Energy Nerd 🤓
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@davidfickling.bsky.social: The world installed 599 gigawatts of solar panels last year, according to #BloombergNEF, up by about a third from '23 It’s hard to comprehend numbers on that scale Generating power only 15% of the time, those panels should produce about 787 terawatt-hours of electricity

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As I have always said, if green steel is ever to achieve globally meaningful scale, it will happen in a country with unlimited high-grade ore, unlimited cheap renewables, and unlimited cheap money. That sounds a lot more like Australia than Sweden. #Hydrogen reneweconomy.com.au/green-iron-f...

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⏳⚡🌍 How do we scale advanced energy technologies before it’s too late? New Joule commentary by @nworbmot.bsky.social @devonswezey.bsky.social @jessejenkins.bsky.social & me shows how companies doing 24/7 carbon-free energy matching accelerate energy transition for everyone doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

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A common criticism of energy system models is their reliance on single weather years, despite significant year-to-year variations. But how can we ensure robust infrastructure planning in this case? What happens during rare events like the once-a-decade Dunkelflaute? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

🌍✨ What if your computing jobs could chase the sun and the wind, reducing your carbon footprint as they go? 1/8

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments