New set of #PyPSA-Eur introduction presentations from our recent workshop at #DTU with @martavictoria.bsky.social, @iriepin.bsky.social and me. #pypsa #energysky 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAm...

@nworbmot.bsky.social is doing really important stuff again, simulating how methanol (instead of hydrogen) could be the fuel to power a system otherwise mainly running on solar, wind and batteries. SUPER interesting paper. arxiv.org/html/2505.09...

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...

It really was a fascinating conversation. He's very good on Russia and decarbonisation, and stood his ground when I pushed him pretty hard on energy costs and hydrogen. youtu.be/BsK-MhUH09c?...

🇪🇺🏢🚄 This week I’m travelling to the Brussels European Sustainable Energy Week to talk about integrating electrolysers in Europe‘s net zero economy power system. Reach out if you’re around! sustainable-energy-week.ec.europa.eu/index_en interactive.eusew.eu/eusew-2025/s...

As the hydrogen bubble deflates, what are the alternatives? We present a "minimal methanol economy": using methanol as a gap-filler for the few sectors electrification can't reach. New working paper together with Philipp Glaum, @fneum.bsky.social, @millinger.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09277

New work from Hofmann and colleagues shows how hydrogen and carbon dioxide networks influence whether CO2 is transported to renewable hubs and sequestration sites, or H2 is delivered to industrial sites for producing clean fuels from captured CO2.

We are offering a new free, hands-on, two-day workshop on PyPSA-Eur, this time in Copenhagen! 📅 Dates: June 26-27, 2025 📍 Location: DTU - Lyngby 👨‍🏫 Instructors: @fneum.bsky.social, @iriepin.bsky.social, @martavictoria.bsky.social Aleksander Grochowicz Registration: forms.gle/4559UPat7NtM...

✈️🚢🧪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...

Cool new paper from the PyPSA core team 👏🔽

✈️🚢🧪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...

👉 New publication that draws on our openly accessible online tool: 🧮 PtX Business Opportunity Analyser www.agora-industry.org/data-tools/p... developed with @oekoinstitut.bsky.social , optimization implemented in pypsa @nworbmot.bsky.social @emircolak1.bsky.social @janke.bsky.social

🗞️🗞️🗞️New study on #hydrogen supply chains in Switzerland in the case of abundant and niche hydrogen Hydrogen production is best located near hydropower, wind power or hydrogen demand clusters. Domestic hydrogen production can be cost-competitive compared to import doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Join this year's Energy Innovation Summit on optimization to accelerate climate action on 24-26 June at Auditorium Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. "Participants will benefit from in-depth technical sessions, hands-on training with #Gurobi Optimizer and #PyPSA" www.gurobi.com/microsite/20...

🤖 Bonus: Sneak peek at the slides from the previous workshop: docs.google.com/presentation...

If you're considering using PyPSA-Eur in your company to model energy systems and help with strategic decisions, we invite you to another free, hands-on, two-day workshop on PyPSA-Eur, a sector-coupled, open-source infrastructure planning tool for the European energy system.

New PyPSA-Eur training offer in Berlin! ☀️ 🎫 🧭 🇪🇺 📅 Dates: May 22-23, 2025 (Thu-Fri) 📍 Location: Technische Universität Berlin 🗣️ Language: English 👨‍🏫 Instructor: me and others 🔗 Register by April 30, 2025 🎟️ Registration: forms.gle/yrPnzeGtVQLt... #pypsa #energysky #energy

New PyPSA-Eur training offer in Berlin! ☀️ 🎫 🧭 🇪🇺 📅 Dates: May 22-23, 2025 (Thu-Fri) 📍 Location: Technische Universität Berlin 🗣️ Language: English 👨‍🏫 Instructor: me and others 🔗 Register by April 30, 2025 🎟️ Registration: forms.gle/yrPnzeGtVQLt... #pypsa #energysky #energy

Vorschlag: Anstatt die Übertragungsnetze dauerhaft zu subventionieren, lieber kosteneffizienter bauen und ein Teil der Kosten mit einem Amortisationskonto um ein paar Jahre verschieben Nach unserer Berechnung kann man mit kluger Planung etwa 92 Mrd. EUR (einen ,,Wumms'') sparen

Wenn ihr euch so richtig in die mögliche Zukunft der Energiewende reinnerden wollt, dann lest ihr den Ariadne-Szenarienreport. In nicht komplett epischer Länge zentrale Aspekte zu Wegen & deren Kosten. Sollte eigentlich Pflichtstoff für MdBs sein. ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/...

Die neuen Szenariorechnungen zur Klimaneutralität 2045 aus dem @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social sind da! 🔽 Wie schon in früheren Studien zeigt sich, dass erneuerbarer Strom der wichtigste Energieträger wird. Ein schneller Ausbau von Windkraft & PV und ihre Nutzung für Mobilität und Wärme sind essenziell.

#Ariadne-Report kalkuliert Pfade zur #Klimaneutralität 2045 in Deutschland: Der Zusatzaufwand der #Transformation lässt sich durch kosteneffizienten #Klimaschutz je nach Szenario auf jahresdurchschnittlich 16 - 26 Mrd. Euro bis 2045 begrenzen, 0,4 - 0,7 Prozent der heutigen #Wirtschaftsleistung.

In our new paper @bmcwilliams.bsky.social, @tagliapietra.bsky.social and myself argue that without reliable date on the state and development of the energy system, decisions on market design, grid development, targets, standards, ... will be biased and inefficient. www.bruegel.org/sites/defaul...

⏳⚡🌍 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...

New research by @millinger.bsky.social and team highlights the primary value of biomass use under stringent emissions targets to be as a renewable carbon source for chemicals, fuels and negative emissions. https://bit.ly/40N6qIg

What is the value of biomass 🥬 in future energy systems 🔌💡💨😎? TL;DR: it's more important to provide renewable carbon than energy, thus saving on expensive direct air capture Featuring PyPSA-Eur with biomass extensions and some fun near-optimal analysis!

🚨 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

⚡ New PyPSA-Eur Training Workshop Offer! ⚡ Since tickets to our upcoming workshop in Stuttgart sold out almost more quickly than tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, we will offer another workshop. 📅 February 25-26, 2025 📍 Gasunie Headquarters, Groningen, Netherlands 🔗 forms.gle/Jb1uPd1HBnfs...

🚨New Paper and Policy Brief🚨 How has green hydrogen developed recently? How much hydrogen is needed for 1.5°C? And what are plausible future pathways? In a new Nature Energy study, we look at these questions. 🔗Article: https://buff.ly/3WeOh3G 🔗Policy Brief: https://buff.ly/3C2F6wm #EnergySky

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...

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

The energy-only electricity market paradigm will continue to serve as a useful foundation for electricity market design in highly renewable power systems. @nworbmot.bsky.social @fneum.bsky.social and Iegor Riepin's paper explains this well: arxiv.org/abs/2407.21409. #EnergySky 🤓

🔌💡Interested in learning the ropes for our open source European energy model PyPSA-Eur? Come join our training event in Stuttgart! 📅 Dates: January 27-28, 2025 📍 Location: TransnetBW Offices, Stuttgart, Germany 🗣️ Language: English 🔗 Registration Deadline: January 17, 2025

Energy Exemplar has blocked all TU Berlin students from academic licences for their energy modelling tool PLEXOS because competitor PyPSA is developed here. While deeply shocked, we believe in turning the other cheek. So we are offering all Energy Exemplar employees a free licence for PyPSA.

Tough few days for our simulation of a future German renewable electricity system. The dreaded dark wind lull forces the model to rely on stored electrolytic hydrogen. But fortunately hydrogen storage was full at the beginning, and has only dropped to a level of 85% so far. model.energy/future/

Interested in open energy modelling with PyPSA? 🤔 🤓 Then join us on zoom on Monday 27th May for the 2nd user meeting, 1500 German time (CEST). 13 talks, every continent is represented! (except Antarctica - we're working on that 🐧) forum.openmod.org/t/2nd-pypsa-...

📄💡 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

Do you sometimes wonder who else uses your favorite open-source energy modeling tools and what they do with them? Come join us at the 2nd PyPSA User Meeting (online) on May 27, 2024, from 3 to 6 pm (CEST)! forum.openmod.org/t/2nd-pypsa-...

Research software engineer sought for open-source energy system modelling with PyPSA!

Where is wind power the most abundant and most reliable? Was the European wind drought of 2021 due to climate change or are winds in Northern Europe just that variable? A new paper by Enrico Antonini and colleagues has the answers. www.nature.com/articles/s43... @CarnegieScience

Hier gibt’s was auf die Ohren! Mit Andrea Herbst und Natalia Pieton habe ich neulich im #HYPAT Podcast über die Modellierung von Energiesystemen und der Rolle vom Wasserstoffnetz gesprochen. hypat.de/hypat/podcas... (sorry German only)

If you want to build and run a PyPSA (pypsa.org) network with little programming knowledge, give Table PyPSA a try! You can build the network from an Excel table, and it returns main outputs in an Excel table. Especially suitable for teaching and stylized analyses with limited network complexity.

Software engineer looking to contribute towards the energy transition? 🌞🌬️🔋 Come to TU Berlin and develop PyPSA, one of the leading open energy system tools. PyPSA is used around the world to model our path to climate neutrality. jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... Deadline: 15.3 Duration: 3 years

🚨 new web app 🚨 future renewable power system running on today's market data 🌬️🌞, scaled up model.energy/future/ - updated each day ⏰ - wind, solar, hydro, batteries, hydrogen storage 🔋 - Germany as an island 🏝️ - coming soon: interconnectors, new electric demands 🚗

Given uncertainty in future technology costs, we cannot predict with confidence what technology mix will be in a least-cost zero-emission electricity system. This suggests a portfolio approach to cost-reduction, and iterative decision-making with learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Modellers sought! 🚨 PhD or postdoc modelling uncertainties for European energy infrastructure, focussing on industry, PtX, carbon management and sustainable biomass usage We need robust infrastructure planning! www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti...

IEEE Spectrum just published a really nice profile on my work with REPEAT Project and ZERO Lab and the role of #macroenergysystems modeling in shaping energy & climate policy and supporting decision making spectrum.ieee.org/jesse-jenkins Thanks @pfairley.bsky.social for this! 🔌💡