Nuclear capacity: forecasts, construction times, operating lives?
…only added around 6 GW per year of new capacity in the past decade. However, there is precedent, as the world installed 25-30 GW pa of new nuclear reactors at…
Power grids: opportunities in the energy transition?
…TWH pa of global electricity demand is supported by 275km of power transmission and 4,000km of distribution (data here). Connecting a new project to the grid usually costs $100-300/kW over…
Vehicle fleets: service life and retirement age by vehicle type?
The weighted-average combustion vehicle in the world has a current age of 12-years and an expected service life of 20-years. In other words, a new combustion vehicle entering the global…
Jevons Paradox: what evidence for energy savings?
…to fall, but to rise +18x to 80MTpa, and +6x in per capita terms. The Jevons Effect is a particular type of rebound effect. All rebound effects involve new demand…
Electric vehicle cost breakdown by component?
This data-file disaggregates the $30k total cost of a typical new ICE and the c$45k total cost of a typical new EV, as a sum-of-the-parts, across 25 cost lines. Drive…
Energy Transition Technologies?
…and nature based solutions to climate change (reforestation, conservation agriculture, blue carbon). How much will new technologies change our roadmap to net zero? We are constantly writing about new technologies,…
Lost in the Forest?
In 2019, Shell pledged $300M of new investment into forestry. TOTAL, BP and Eni are also pursuing similar schemes. But can they move the needle for CO2? In order to…
Global LNG supply model: by project and by country?
…the past decade, global LNG production has risen at +17MTpa each year. This data-file breaks down global LNG production by facility, across each of 140 LNG plants, assessing recent news…
Do refineries become bio-refineries?
…advantage of this process is cost, which is said to be 80% lower than constructing a new facility. For example, the Porto Marghera project was budgeted at €200M. In its…
Disrupting Agriculture: Energy Opportunities?
…of new US food products with added protein doubled from 2013 to 2017. Protein-enriched milk is becoming popular with baristas as it’s easier to froth. Halo Top was the most…