Renewable-heavy grids: dividing the pie?
…accountable, driven by numbers, per pages 16-21. The work draws on five-years of modelling of solar costs, onshore wind, offshore wind, gas turbines, coal plants, nuclear plants, hydro and diesel…
Power grids: when will wind and solar peak?
…peak at 50-70% of future renewable-heavy grids. The leading backstop, for the other 30-50%, in our view, will be natural gas, followed by nuclear and hydro. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
Solar and wind: what decarbonization costs?
…answer depends on context. Obviating the need to construct a new coal-fired power plant (negative CO2 abatement cost) yields a very different answer from causing a fully depreciated nuclear plant…
Energy transition from first principles?
…transformers, transistors, harmonic filters, capacitors, reactive power. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/05/25/power-grids-down-to-the-wire/ The new age of volatility due to renewables, geopolitics, politics, policies. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2024/01/11/energy-market-volatility-climate-change/ Latest views on global energy, solar innovation, wind recalibration, nuclear, grid bottlenecks, shale and how AI…
Global solar: absorption spectrum?
…is the LCOE of constructing new solar versus the LCOE of constructing new wind, hydro, nuclear, gas, coal, biomass, diesel gensets and geothermal (as discussed on page 3). However, when solar growth starts exceeding total electricity demand growth,…
Global energy demand by end use?
…oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar, biomass and other. A breakdown of global energy demand is more challenging. But we have slowly been building up a library of…
Offshore oilfields: development capex over time in Norway?
…cleaned data-set is available for download below. Across all energy sub-sectors, there are benefits to counter-cyclical investment, whether we are considering oil, gas, LNG, nuclear, wind, solar or power grids….
Bottlenecked grids: winners and losers?
…the outlook for other generation sources, across natural gas, smaller-scale gas, diesel generation, batteries, coal and nuclear (pages 12-13). A growing number of facilities need ratable, round-the-clock power, yet are…
Electric adventures: conclusions from an EV road trip?
…grid (65% nuclear). Combined with the prevalence of onshore wind in Northern Europe, you can easily convince yourself that you are charging using very low-carbon electricity. (2). Chargers benefit retailers….
General Fusion: magnetized fusion breakthrough?
General Fusion technology review. General Fusion is developing a magnetized target fusion reactor, to fuse heavy isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium). It confines 100MºC plasma within a vortex of liquid…