Power grids: the biggest bottleneck in the world?
…where should we be looking and what will we find? In the most likely route to net zero by 2050, global electricity demand would grow by 2.5x, transmission and distribution…
Grid connection sizes: residential, commercial and industrial?
…may cause its circuit breaker to trip. Hence some homes may need upgraded grid connections to add electric vehicle chargers or heat pumps. Office buildings that have crossed our screens…
Bottlenecked grids: winners and losers?
…take an order of magnitude longer? The implications of grid bottlenecks extend across every sector that consumes electricity and every energy source that produces electricity (ranked by size on page…
Electromagnetic energy: Planck, Shockley-Queisser, power beaming?
…the synchronized, energy-carrying oscillation of electric and magnetic fields, which moves through a vacuum at the speed of light, which is 300,000 km per second. Most familiar is visible light,…
Power beaming: into thin air?
…with implications across every sector (page 2). Hence what opportunity exists to bypass bottlenecked cables and wires, by transmitting electricity as electromagnetic waves? Far field radiative power transmission, aka power…
Gas power: does low utilization entail spare capacity?
…is available for TSE written subscription clients, while the underlying data behind our assessment of gas power spare capacity are linked below for TSE full subscription clients. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/us-gas-power-generation-by-facility https://thundersaidenergy.com/2024/04/04/energy-and-ai-the-power-and-the-glory https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/06/15/electric-vehicles-breaking-the-ice…
Power distribution: the economics?
…the grid, such as electric vehicle charging points or other electricity-consuming facilities captured in our broader economic models. Please download the data-file to stress test the costs of electricity distribution….
Global heat pump sales by country?
…cooling solutions to 40% from 2013 to 2023, and rose from 15% to 23% of heating solutions (ex electric heaters, where AHRI does not report data) (chart below). Heat pump…
Vehicle emissions of CO, NOx and HCs?
…improving engine technology and the use of PGMs within catalytic converters, as mandated by emissions standards. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2024/09/19/going-platinum-pgms-in-energy-transition/ Continued improvements will come from electric vehicles which do not have any tailpipe…
Long-duration storage: dirtier than gas peakers?
…of energy and emits 100 kg/kWh of CO2. When this battery is installed in an electric vehicle, achieving 2,250 charge-discharge cycles over the useful life of the battery, then the…