Apparently Germany lacks money to reduce the tax burden on electricity prices for everyone, but has the money to pay for a few short years (until the next election) subsidies to the electricity bills of a few selected industries. #NotSoGreatEnergyPolicies

Green imports and Europe’s net-zero blueprint 🏗️🌍 Steel 🔩, methanol ⛽, ammonia 🌾, hydrogen 🫧, electricity ⚡ - What to bring in and what to keep local? New #pypsa study in @natcomms.nature.com with @nworbmot.bsky.social and @euronion42.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Article w/ @euronion42.bsky.social looking at using methanol for long duration energy storage is out of the paywall! Liquids = ultimate resilience. Openly accessible from now until forever. doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... More thoughts on methanol below...

📄💡 New paper published in Nature Energy estimating the “renewables pull” for green value chains of basic materials (steel & chemicals)! Read online (open access): nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01492-z

10th #GDU FIGURE: How to optimally locate different volumes of new PV across Ukraine? Our first #PyPSA-runs indicate: distributing deployment resolves constraints and boosts overall resilience and lessens variability in generation. www.linkedin.com/posts/green-... thx to @robertcarr.bsky.social

Job posting: Please apply or share. At @pik-potsdam.bsky.social we are looking for Postdocs and PhD candidates to model and explore circularity and industry transformation scenarios of energy-intensive industries (steel, cement, and plastics). www.pik-potsdam.de/de/aktuelles...

#hydrogen 🇬🇧 💰: 12$ per kg H2 Strike price of first Hydrogen Allocation Round (HAR1) www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/u... @janke.bsky.social @mathiaskoch.bsky.social @emircolak1.bsky.social @paulmuennich.bsky.social @andreasgraf.bsky.social @ulfneuling.bsky.social 1/

OPEC’s letter. #COP28

Interactive map of IEA's hydrogen project database, sort by (planned) commissioning date and project status: www.iea.org/data-and-sta... 🔌💡 💧

There's a cool new report by @gnievchenko.bsky.social on SOEC and how it compares to other electrolysis technologies on the other side. Would be a shame it people in energysky miss it, because its not here. *hint*

(Co-)firing of ammonia is known to lead to increased NOx emissions. German metal company trialed co-firing NH3 + fossil gas and decided against it due to NOx emissions (and degradation of product quality): www.hydrogeninsight.com/industrial/c...

Is green methanol an overlooked storage option for the electricity grid? @nworbmot.bsky.social and @euronion42.bsky.social argue that it sometimes has advantages. Storing H2 is difficult. Methanol is liquid and much easier to store. #methanol #storage industrydecarbonization.com/news/should-...

1/ Wie sind vor dem Winter die neuen #LNG-Terminals in Deutschland ausgelastet? Das lässt sich Anhand der Daten von #GIE gut nachvollziehen. Starten wir mit #Wilhelmshaven: Das Terminal läuft mit einer durchschnittlichen Auslastung von 76% ganz gut.

A renewable power system that is reliable whatever the weather? 🌬️ ⛅️ The case for e-methanol with carbon cycling ♻️: liquid storage that can be built anywhere 🚨 New impulse paper 🚨 in Joule with @euronion42.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... Slides: nworbmot.org/energy/brown...

Webinar: "Ultra-long-duration energy storage anywhere: methanol with carbon cycling" Join on Nov 1st at 1830 GMT (1930 CET) for a talk on a new paper with Johannes Hampp (that should drop the day before) Organised by Engineers Ireland See you there! www.engineersireland.ie/Events/event...