Yesterday, the Netbeheer Nederland Scenarios Edition 2025 have been published!
📄🔗 www.netbeheernederland.nl/publicatie/n...
For datacenters, we see a strong short-term growth in contracted capacity passing 4 GW by 2026 📈⚡
The consumption growth follows with a few years delay to 24-29 TWh by 2030 📊⚡

Tomorrow is the 9th consecutive afternoon with negative or very low Day Ahead electricity prices (≤ €5/MWh) in the Netherlands.

Is this new normal for spring and summer? 🤔

This “DC-coupled” hybrid project with 600 MW of solar☀️ and 600 MW, 2,400 MWh of battery🔋will be making dual use of grid forming inverters placed at each solar array. 🤓
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-batter...

Waar in Nederland afgelopen week het IBO-rapport over de bekostiging van de elektriciteitsinfrastructuur tot 2040 werd gepubliceerd, kwam er in Duitsland het rapport 'Die Energiewende kosteneffizient gestalten' uit. Ik plaatste een korte beschouwing op LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

This week on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social, my friend @jigarshahdc.bsky.social was back, having just stood down from leading the US DOE Loan Programmes Office. No one understands the Bridge to Bankability better, but will his work stick or will Trump trash it? www.cleaningup.live/the-future-o...

@davidfickling.bsky.social:
The world installed 599 gigawatts of solar panels last year, according to #BloombergNEF, up by about a third from '23

It’s hard to comprehend numbers on that scale

Generating power only 15% of the time, those panels should produce about 787 terawatt-hours of electricity

As I have always said, if green steel is ever to achieve globally meaningful scale, it will happen in a country with unlimited high-grade ore, unlimited cheap renewables, and unlimited cheap money. That sounds a lot more like Australia than Sweden. #Hydrogen
reneweconomy.com.au/green-iron-f...

⏳⚡🌍 How do we scale advanced energy technologies before it’s too late? New Joule commentary by
@nworbmot.bsky.social @devonswezey.bsky.social @jessejenkins.bsky.social & me shows how companies doing 24/7 carbon-free energy matching accelerate energy transition for everyone
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

A common criticism of energy system models is their reliance on single weather years, despite significant year-to-year variations.

But how can we ensure robust infrastructure planning in this case? What happens during rare events like the once-a-decade Dunkelflaute?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍✨ What if your computing jobs could chase the sun and the wind, reducing your carbon footprint as they go?
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After a 3 day Dunkelflaute in North West Europe with nearly no wind and solar but not even very cold, lets talk about adequacy and scarcity prices. ⚡📈🇪🇺
At Dec 12th prices peaked at 17-18h with highest prices in Germany at €936/MWh 💸🇩🇪, even with:
35 GW fossil 🏭
13 GW imports 🔌
7 GW hydro 💧
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Hi Bluesky, Emiel here 👋🏼

After handing over my #EnergyTwitterVrijMiBO sessions and leaving Twitter, I found LinkedIn just not being the same. I hope to find the good old #energytwitter nerd vibes here at Bluesky ⚡🤓.

Follow me for nerdy insights into Dutch and EU energy systems. 🇳🇱🇪🇺