kierancondon.bsky.social
Energy portfolio manager based in Belgium
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As long as they focus on the top two rungs of the hydrogen ladder, Im fine
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It's too difficult to find reliable installers. Too many will oversize the system, or do no calculations. You have the impression it's a roll of a dice on a >15k€ investment
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Billions for trillions is extortion. Sure, there's a fair price to be found. It's not as high as that
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The trick will be to get cross border connections through europe
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You're probably right that building large north-south transmission lines, even extending to Morocco, but also just southern italy and spain, would be the most cost decreasing action possible
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UK visas are already very expensive
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Good take. We don't have cheap pipeline gas anymore and never will. Net Zero scenarios look close to current energy prices. Low solar irradiation will always put EU higher than US and China. Cold weather. We need to focus on having the most efficient buildings in the world
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Is this going to be viable, Jesse?
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This is how you lose credibility and influence #EU
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To be fair, the report makes several points that resonate: there is a teacher shortage in the EU, a need to increase attractiveness of teaching. A digital divide. A need for bigger respect for vocational training. These do seem relevant to a skills gap. Let's see what the EU wants to do about it...
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What do you make of the quote immediately under section "Main Messages" by Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament? "Its purpose (EEA) is to push for more equality, more democracy, more Europe for the sake of us all."
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In the meantime I found a 25 page pdf Midterm Review of the 2025 deadline (!) to build the EEA education.ec.europa.eu/document/eur...
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One of the "focus areas for collaboration" is teacher training. What is the EU doing for teachers? I'd love to find out but I'm getting a 403 error right now on all EEA webpages, as if I've been blocked for suspiciously clicking too many links... will be for later
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This page describes why education is good. It mentions Covid. It mentions two other similar initiatives: the "European Skills Agenda" and the "European Research Area". Best to not get distracted by this new area. What is the European Education Area?
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"The EEA initiative structures collaboration between Member States and stakeholders to build more resilient and inclusive national education systems." There's a big orange button to find out more. will we learn what the EEA does practically?
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The first deliverable mentioned in the report is the creation of the "European education area" by 2025. It sounds intriguing. What is this area, actually? What will it do? There's a website education.ec.europa.eu
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😂 🤘
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Starting with a one-pager (promising) written on #EuropeanParliament letterhead, "Closing the EU skills gap" www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
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An upside is that the need for efficiency and the need for alternative technologies like wind, long duration storage and synthetic fuels could foster exportable industries that compete internationally, if we embrace an engineering culture
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EU needs to go big on energy efficiency. Obvious win would be reducing heating costs in homes, through passive standards. And there is potential to maximise solar usage by heavily connecting grids north to south.
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On the other hand, energy is not the largest cost component in many industries. Labour, capital, ... Improvements in these can outweigh the energy cost disparity. Low political risk, education, connectivity, beaurocracy (preferably a lack of it). Many factors add up.
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How much will this matter to Europe? USA spends 7% of GDP on energy expenditure annually. Assuming 50% higher energy costs would be >3% of GDP impact. A lot.
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Europe already pays more for energy, especially since the invasion of Ukraine. The cost-disparity to the US may fall in a net-zero world, with prices less often set by gas. Nevertheless, a disparity will remain.
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It depends a lot on how energy intensive future industries will be. Artificial Intelligence is an example: Europe will be disadvantaged in hosting data centres. And it is unlikely to dominate steel manufacturing.
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I did not know that, thanks. I assumed this would be for every install
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Do you happen to know any reliable installers in Belgium? And how do you incentivise installers to use openenergymonitor?
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Time to check out this show then! m.imdb.com/title/tt8905...
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Do you consider the cost to the homeowner to maintain the gas system in the house, and more complex system to install? That could be re-routed to grid expansion