Aluminium producers: company screen?
…overhead transmission cables for power grids, for light-weighting vehicles to improve their fuel economy, for aircraft frames, for the frames of solar panels, and in the heat exchangers that enable…
Green hydrogen: can electrolysers run off renewables?
…alongside the electrolysers, in a trade off with up-front capex, in order to mitigate against degradation. Our roadmap to net zero still sees relatively more potential in large-scale transmission infrastructure,…
Sentient Energy: smart grid breakthrough?
…includes our overview of how power grids work, overview of reactive power compensation, long-distance power transmission, transformers and how hot temperatures strain power grids. We think optimization of the power…
Hydrofluoric acid: the economics?
…power transmission lines. It is used to make refrigerants, as used in fridges, AC and heat pumps. UF6 is used in upgrading uranium for nuclear fuel. And HF is used…
Cable installation vessels: costs and operating parameters?
This is a database of cable installation vessels for offshore wind and power transmission; tabulating costs (in $M), contract awards (in $/km), capacity (in tons), installation speeds (in meters per…
Energy storage: top conclusions into batteries?
…in long-distance power transmission, decarbonized gas, next-gen nuclear; fully decarbonizing future grids while keeping costs below 10-20c/kWh. (7) Density will improve, but not enough for mass deployment of battery trucks,…
Internet energy consumption: data, models, forecasts?
…estimates, but uncertainty is high. The energy intensity of internet traffic spans across data-centers, transmission networks and local networking equipment. Again, different estimates from different technical papers can vary by…
What is the energy consumption of the internet?
…data servers in data centers (page 4) and transmission and networking (page 5). It is a minefield. Different studies disagree by five orders of magnitude over the energy intensity of…
Global electricity prices vs. CO2 intensities?
…transmission and 10-20% covers other administrative costs of utilities. The CO2 intensity of the global average power grid is 0.45 kg/kWh. Variations are wide. And there is a -35% correlation…