Agilyx: plastic recycling breakthrough?
…Agilyx is a public company listed on the Oslo Euronext Growth, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with presence in New Hampshire, Oregon, Switzerland and Denmark. The company has 90 employees at…
Established technologies: hiding in plain sight?
…Sleipner project off of Norway, which reliably sequestered 1MTpa of CO2, for twenty years, starting in 1996. Other case studies are reviewed in our database here. In 2020, we were…
Cool customers: AI data-centers and industrial HVAC?
…matters. For example, how are the PUEs and capex costs of data-centers different in cool locations such as Norway and Calgary, versus hot, arid locations such as West Texas and…
Floating offshore wind: what challenges?
…capex and levelized costs, compared with traditional offshore wind. The potential for floating offshore wind is also location dependent, with inherent advantages, for example, in Norway relative to China, due…
Floating production systems versus subsea tiebacks: the costs?
This model estimates the line-by-line costs of an FPSO project, across c45 distinct cost lines, in order to quantify the potential savings of a tieback or a ‘fully subsea’ development….
Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s
We presented our ‘Top Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s’ to an audience at Yale SOM, in February-2020. The audio recording is available below. The slides are available to…
European gas and power model: natural gas supply-demand?
…reliance on imports over the past 20-30 years, rising from a 40-45% share of final demand in 1990-2004, to an 80-85% share in 2021-25. Thank god for Norway, which is…
Renewables: share of global energy and electricity by country?
…however, belong to Norway (87% hydro, 10% wind) and Sweden (40% hydro, 30% nuclear, 19% wind, 1.5% solar), where nuclear and hydro can also buffer renewables (note here). China, India…
Hybrid horizons: industrial use of batteries?
Gas and diesel engines can be particularly inefficient when idling, or running at 20-30% loads. At these levels, their fuel economy can be impaired by 30-80%. This is the rationale…
CO2 intensity of natural gas value chains?
…plus 15-20% lower combustion emissions. Different resources are compared using our methodology. The lowest CO2 profile is seen for well-managed piped gas (e.g., Norway to Europe). Actual data on US…