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iain-staffell.bsky.social
Reader in Sustainable Energy, Imperial College https://renewables.ninja 🌍 https://electricinsights.co.uk 📈 http://powerswarm.co.uk 🤝 http://energystorage.ninja 🔋
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Quick update: www.renewables.ninja now has access to weather inputs for 2024. So, if you want to model wind & solar farm output – heating & cooling demand – or just grab raw meteorological data, you now have hourly data from 1980 through to 2024 at your fingertips! 🌎🌍🌏

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Want to work with us on the AMOC? 🌊 We have a 3-year postdoctoral position to fill. Check it out here: potsdam.pi-asp.de/bewerber-web...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Here's an eye opening new tool for academics... Find out the gobsmacking amount of money you have spent on publishing open access journal papers. Tool: pubanalyser.streamlit.app Code by @davidbann.bsky.social github.com/dbann/pubana...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

🔋 Why is UK electricity so pricey? Dr Iain Staffell (@iain-staffell.bsky.social) at @ic-cep.bsky.social explains that the auction system sets prices by the most expensive source – often gas Even as our grid decarbonises, prices remain high... a strange paradox ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Wind power is getting a lot of hate Trump vows to ban new farms that "drive the whales crazy" Germany's AFD want to "tear down all these windmills of shame" Misinformation is running wild. So let's cut the crap and review the real barriers facing wind power www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

A great long-form article on why Britain's power prices are so high, and what we can do about it... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Great news on the road to decarbonising UK electricity! www.thetimes.com/article/54ca...

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The UK's Clean Power Mission aims for 95% clean generation by 2030! Gas will only be used sparingly for things like flexibility and balancing. This requires a huge effort over the next five years... but it's in line with our last decade of progress. Chart from www.electricinsights.co.uk

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Even though coal-fired power generation is falling fast across Europe and America, it is still rising globally. China burns more than the rest of the world combined. Read more in this quarter’s Electric Insights report. reports.electricinsights.co.uk

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

The new Electric Insights report is out, covering the major events in decarbonising UK energy over the third quarter of this year. My favourite chart for this quarter: the global coal phase-out league table! See the full report here: reports.electricinsights.co.uk/reports/q3-2...

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Fossil fuels are providing less than 10% of Britain's electricity right now... So long to Europe's dunkelflaute woes 🌬️

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