Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite. But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

🔋 From Vienna to Cologne: Our Head of Department Dr Jann Weinand joined the Vienna Convergence on Critical Raw Materials & supported early-career researchers at YEEES. Strategic insight meets scientific mentoring. #EnergyTransition #ICE2 #CRMs #YEEES2025

🚀 New from our team: Global high-res solar irradiance data downscaled from 1h to 1min – boosting accuracy for energy system modelling. Great work by Olalekan Omoyele and ICE-2 colleagues at @FZJuelich! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EnergyModelling #Renewables #ICE2

🚨 New paper out! Our review “The role of geothermal plants in the global energy and materials transition” is now published in Nexus (Cell Press) 🌋 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.yn... #GeothermalEnergy #EnergyTransition #EGS #Decarbonization #CriticalMaterials #EnergyModeling

📻 Listen to an interview by @christianccummins.bsky.social with participant Naja Dyrendom Graugaard about resource extractivism in Greenland here: fm4.orf.at/player/20251...

Our study on land demand of renewables (iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...) was covered in a German quizshow yesterday (from min. 32): www.ardmediathek.de/video/wer-we...

🌍 As the IWM– @uwmadison.bsky.social conference on Europe’s scramble for critical raw materials wraps up, we want to thank all participating experts for exploring how to secure sustainable, resilient supply chains amid geopolitical uncertainty, broaching issues from recycling to Ukraine’s CRMs.

Neuer Professor für #Energieökonomik an der #TUBAF / Gemeinsame Berufung mit @fzj-ice2.bsky.social 👏 Stefan Vögele entwickelt Modelle und Szenarien, wie verschiedene Akteure in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zur Erreichung der Klimaziele zusammenarbeiten können. tu-freiberg.de/kurz-gemeldet

Very intersting factcheck by Carbon Brief on solar power! They also covered our study on space requirements compared to golf courses: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #solar #Golf #renewables

A new dataset to train NLP models: Wiki-Quantities and Wiki-Measurements: Datasets of quantities and their measurement context from Wikipedia www.nature.com/articles/s41... A major update regarding data for (energy system) modelers will follow soon. Stay tuned... #data #energysystem #renewables

🌍 What if the weather conditions are one of the biggest make-or-break factors for Direct Air Capture success? Our new paper shows that weather variability isn’t just a detail—it can drastically change the cost and performance of DAC. 👉 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ad... 1/n

⛳ #DidYouKnow that countries across the world use more land for #golf courses than #wind or #solar energy?☀️🍃🪫 Read more about this research in this article from Environmental Research: Communications - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #environment #landuse #golfcourse #windenergy #solarenergy

Something to send to your uncle who insists there's just no space for #renewables: Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy doi.org/10.1088/2515... Lovely bit of land-use perspective by @jannweinand.bsky.social et al

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation arxiv.org/abs/2506.00047

🔍 Can AI + energy modeling help shape a climate-neutral Europe? We're hiring a PhD researcher to combine LLMs & system optimization to assess emerging tech solutions. 🧠 Work with open tools in a top European research team. 📍 3-year position: www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j... #Energy #AI

An invisible renewable energy system - is that possible? Local opposition to wind and solar farms is often driven by their visual impact—but what if we could plan an energy system that people can't see? We explored this in our latest study: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #energy #climate #renewable 1/4

I have an open position for a doctoral/postdoctoral researcher in my group @unileipzig.bsky.social (fully funded, 3 years, starting 10/2025). Research shall be on quantitative economic analyses of water management and/or climate adaptation. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Feel free DM me for questions.

Quantifying the trade-offs between renewable energy visibility and system costs, by @jannweinand.bsky.social et al. 🔌💡 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy that our article "Low-carbon lithium extraction makes deep geothermal plants cost-competitive in future energy systems" (doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...) has been chosen by the journal Chief Editor as "Article with real-world impact" News www.sciencedirect.com/journal/adva... #lithium #geothermal

✈️🚢🧪For Europe's green fuels for aviation, shipping, and chemicals: Should we pipeline H₂ to industrial CO₂ capture sites, or CO₂ to regions with better renewable resources for H₂ production? 📖 See our new study in @natureenergy.bsky.social on future carbon management: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/4 🎓🌍 Exciting PhD opportunity alert! We're hiring at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Position: Modelling CO₂ capture, utilization & negative emissions ➡️ Position: fz-juelich.de/en/careers/jobs/2025D-042 Model in focus: doi.org/10.1016/j.ad... #PhD #EnergySystems

Eine neue Übersicht zum Flächenverbrauch in Deutschland von NaturEnergie: www.linkedin.com/posts/nature... Weiterführende Berechnungen: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #golf #solarenergy #windpower #renewable

X or #ElonMusk does not like our study "Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than #wind or #solar #energy" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... For example, the post by @cleanenergywire.bsky.social on X was only shown 250 times, despite the large number of followers (>10,000).

Ich so im Spiegel: für den Umstieg auf die Elektromobilität brauchen wir nicht nur Fördergeld, sondern vor allem #Technologieklarheit. Gilt übrigens auch für Wärmepumpen.

"Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy" free acess paper #environment #science iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

How much do we really know about Germany’s residential buildings? And how much of their heat demand could they cover themselves with rooftop solar and heat pumps? 🏠☀️ Our lab just published two open-access studies that dive deep into these questions. ⬇️

Studien zur Klimakrise: Die nächste Eiszeit fällt aus taz.de/Studien-zur-... iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy Land use is a critical factor in the siting of renewable energy facilities and is often scrutinized due to perceived conflicts with other land demands.

Worried about the extensive land-use of renewable energies? Well, apparently we are using more land for golf courses in Europe than for wind power or for solar PV. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Découvrir l'étude : "Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

[ #EnR ] Dans certains pays, dont la France, la surface équivalente à celles des terrains de golf pourraient accueillir d’énormes volumes de capacité d’ #énergie #solaire et #éolienne tout en réduisant les conflits d’utilisation des terres.

🚀 Join Our Team – We’re Hiring! Our institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich is excited to announce three open positions in the field of energy systems modeling and negative emissions:

@jannweinand.bsky.social has recently done the math. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Weltweit wird mehr Land für Golfplätze genutzt, als für Wind- oder Solarenergieanlagen. Jetzt gönnen die "pösen Grünen" Trump nicht mal mehr seine Golfplätze. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

🌍 Golf vs. Green Energy 🏌️ A new study finds that countries like the US and UK use more land for golf courses than for wind or solar energy. Repurposing this space could significantly boost renewable energy capacity. 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #SciComm #Renewables 🧪

Global golf courses take up more land than solar, wind plants www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/24/g...

How should we choose which societal factors to include in #energy #models? And do societal factors make the models really better? Some evidence: www.nature.com/articles/s41... by V. Fisch-Romito, M. Jaxa Rozen and X.Wen @natureenergy.bsky.social @unigeenergy.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social

🌍 More land is allocated to golf courses than renewable energy, a new study in our journal Environmental Research Communications shows: ow.ly/y6WR50V4l8c. We don’t suggest eliminating golf courses, but it highlights the potential of rethinking land use to boost renewable energy. 🌱

1/ What takes up more land: renewable energy or golf courses? ⛳⚡ Surprisingly, in countries like the U.S. & U.K., golf courses cover more land than wind & solar energy combined. Our latest study reveals just how much land could be repurposed for renewables. 🧵👇

Der Tagesschau-Beitrag unten enthält eine gute Zusammenstellung der wissenschaftlichen Evidenz zur Bedeutung der Windkraft und möglichen lokalen Auswirkungen. @jannweinand.bsky.social verweist dabei im Beitrag auch auf unseren jüngsten Review-Artikel dazu:

Was ist dran an den Behauptungen über Windkraft? www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...

1/ How can we ensure transparency & reproducibility in renewable energy potential assessments? 🏗️⚡ ETHOS.REFLOW is an open-source Python workflow manager tackling this challenge! A thread on our latest work in @cp-patterns.bsky.social: 🧵👇 Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa... #renewable #energy #systems

0/ 🚨 New Paper Alert! 🌍💧🌱 Towards water-conscious green hydrogen & methanol production: A groundbreaking techno-economic review. 🚀 Let’s talk about sustainability, innovation, and the future of energy. 🧵 www.cell.com/nexus/fullte... doi.org/10.1016/j.yn... More infos in the thread below 👇

🚨 New Article and Policy Brief in Nature Energy 🚨 📄We examine the value of biomass in the European energy system and its interplay with other technologies under stringent emissions scenarios. 🔗 Article: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔗 Policy Brief: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @natureenergy.bsky.social

Austria has the ambitious goal of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Until recently, no climate neutrality scenarios were available for the energy sector. Today, our four scenarios and the accompanying analysis have been published. A thread with key insights 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #research team leader #job in #energy #system #analysis For my department ‘Integrated Scenarios’ at the institute ‘Juelich Systems Analysis‘ I am looking for a new team leader for the team ‘Methodology Lab’ (www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...).

Great summary of a new paper in Joule reviewing the system impacts of wind power. I had the pleasure to contribute a tiny bit.

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...

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

Für den Chef der CDU und wahrscheinlichen Kanzler #Merz ist sie eine „Übergangstechnologie“, für die rechtsextreme #Weidel sind es „Windmühlen der Schande“. Ich fürchte, die #Windkraft wird einen schweren Stand haben in nächster Zeit. Und das gerade jetzt wo die Genehmigungszahlen endlich anziehen.