Niels Madsen
@nielsme.bsky.social
33 years - Copenhagen - day job risk management and sustainability at Danske Bank.
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I useful reminder that European energy from renewables won't be interrupted by geopolitics.
With the news that Iran plans to close the Straits of Hormuz, I thought I'd draw this helpful map.
June 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I useful reminder that European energy from renewables won't be interrupted by geopolitics.
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I know I say this all the time but my number one double standard in modern politics is how liberal political movements are collectively responsible for everyone in their country with vaguely lefty vibes, and conservatives are given a pass for the actions of their self-selected official leadership.
June 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I know I say this all the time but my number one double standard in modern politics is how liberal political movements are collectively responsible for everyone in their country with vaguely lefty vibes, and conservatives are given a pass for the actions of their self-selected official leadership.
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En af grundene til at vi ikke har bedre tog i Danmark er, at venstrefløjen tror, at den primære politiske opgave er at skaffe flere offentlige støttekroner til kollektiv transport i stedet for at finde gode løsninger til at lave bedre offentlig transport. politiken.dk/del/NHW4RlAE...
Kun fire af Danmarks ti største lufthavne kan klare sig uden offentlig støtte
Lufthavnene i Aarhus, Karup, Esbjerg, Sønderborg, Odense og på Bornholm modtager hvert år millioner af kroner i støtte.
politiken.dk
June 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
En af grundene til at vi ikke har bedre tog i Danmark er, at venstrefløjen tror, at den primære politiske opgave er at skaffe flere offentlige støttekroner til kollektiv transport i stedet for at finde gode løsninger til at lave bedre offentlig transport. politiken.dk/del/NHW4RlAE...
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I think Biden (wrongly) thought enough Republican Senators loved 🇺🇸 enough to fulfill their damn oaths in February 2021, & he thought Merrick Garland loved 🇺🇸 enough to do his damn job. He was wrong on both accounts, & therefore 👇 is very likely correct.
wrote about Biden's failure to crush fascism, and why Ds really need to do better next time. if they get a next time. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/biden-shou...
Biden Should Have Imprisoned Trump on Day One
Fighting fascists is messy. If you don’t do it, though, they win.
www.everythingishorrible.net
May 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Biden (wrongly) thought enough Republican Senators loved 🇺🇸 enough to fulfill their damn oaths in February 2021, & he thought Merrick Garland loved 🇺🇸 enough to do his damn job. He was wrong on both accounts, & therefore 👇 is very likely correct.
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We buy out the ethanol industry and repurpose the land for public solar and pollinator plants, and that's the end of local fights over clean-energy development.
~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production.
Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.
May 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We buy out the ethanol industry and repurpose the land for public solar and pollinator plants, and that's the end of local fights over clean-energy development.
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"The association told pv magazine the sharply decreasing cost of BESS is making its inclusion both technically possible and commercially viable, helping African countries to address challenges around grid stability."
Storage is the fossil fuel killer. This is fantastic news.
Storage is the fossil fuel killer. This is fantastic news.
Almost 9 GW of utility-scale solar under construction in Africa
The Africa Solar Industry Association (AFSIA) says utility-scale solar projects are under development in 45 of Africa’s 54 countries, with more projects pairing solar and storage and emerging from dir...
www.pv-magazine.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"The association told pv magazine the sharply decreasing cost of BESS is making its inclusion both technically possible and commercially viable, helping African countries to address challenges around grid stability."
Storage is the fossil fuel killer. This is fantastic news.
Storage is the fossil fuel killer. This is fantastic news.
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"Improvements since 2007 reduced costs by 19%, averaging $5 billion per hurricane. This exceeds the annual budget for all federal weather forecasting."
#NOAA
#NOAA
The economic value of hurricane forecasts
www.nber.org/papers/w3254...
www.nber.org/papers/w3254...
The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
April 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Improvements since 2007 reduced costs by 19%, averaging $5 billion per hurricane. This exceeds the annual budget for all federal weather forecasting."
#NOAA
#NOAA
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Imagine you’re an oil executive who hates ESG and loves LNG. It’s 2022. Your company is more profitable than ever. You despise Mark Carney’s GFANZ racket, but at least he’s out at BoE. Biden’s old and feckless but ignorable. Now time to sit back and enjoy steadily rising feedstock exports to China…
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Imagine you’re an oil executive who hates ESG and loves LNG. It’s 2022. Your company is more profitable than ever. You despise Mark Carney’s GFANZ racket, but at least he’s out at BoE. Biden’s old and feckless but ignorable. Now time to sit back and enjoy steadily rising feedstock exports to China…
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Hi guys it's Mr Beast and I have a few (still rough) videos slouching towards Bethlehem to be born - there's a gyre that's turning and turning and if the center can hold they get $100k. I also trained a falcon to not hear the falconer
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Hi guys it's Mr Beast and I have a few (still rough) videos slouching towards Bethlehem to be born - there's a gyre that's turning and turning and if the center can hold they get $100k. I also trained a falcon to not hear the falconer
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China just made its “Old for New” EV trade-in subsidies even sweeter! 🚀 Any petrol car (pre-2012), diesel (pre-2014), or EV (pre-2018) now qualifies. Immediate RMB15k for ICE, RMB20k for EVs—plus stackable local subsidies (RMB4k-12k). Expect a huge BEV sales surge in the coming months! ⚡🔥 #EV #China
How China is doubling down on trade-ins to boost sluggish consumption
Authorities in China pledged on Sunday to "vigorously boost consumption" and "expand domestic demand in all directions" as they seek to cushion the impact of weak external demand amid an escalating global trade war.
www.reuters.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
China just made its “Old for New” EV trade-in subsidies even sweeter! 🚀 Any petrol car (pre-2012), diesel (pre-2014), or EV (pre-2018) now qualifies. Immediate RMB15k for ICE, RMB20k for EVs—plus stackable local subsidies (RMB4k-12k). Expect a huge BEV sales surge in the coming months! ⚡🔥 #EV #China
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Indeed. Join the Copenhagen Contrails Conference to push on this actually happening: copenhagencontrails.org
March 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Indeed. Join the Copenhagen Contrails Conference to push on this actually happening: copenhagencontrails.org
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Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from #Denmark, where the 2021 darling of the #Copenhagen stock market, electrolyser maker Green Hydrogen Systems, files for restructuring. Sympathy for the employees, no sympathy for those who should have known better. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Once-Hyped Hydrogen Company Is Latest Nordic Green Hope to Fail
Green Hydrogen Systems A/S will go into a restructuring process, the latest sustainable energy company in the Nordic region to collapse, following last year’s traumatic demise of Sweden’s Northvolt AB...
www.bloomberg.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from #Denmark, where the 2021 darling of the #Copenhagen stock market, electrolyser maker Green Hydrogen Systems, files for restructuring. Sympathy for the employees, no sympathy for those who should have known better. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Oh dear.
So why do EU politicians say the EU import 80% of weapons and researchers think it's under half?
In October the IISS figured it out.
The IRIS paper forgot to include domestic sales of weapons. So it didn't count German industry selling to the German army as "EU" defence sales.
A basic mistake.
In October the IISS figured it out.
The IRIS paper forgot to include domestic sales of weapons. So it didn't count German industry selling to the German army as "EU" defence sales.
A basic mistake.
March 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Oh dear.
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China having almost no oil or gas reserves may end up being one of the luckiest breaks in human history.
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
China having almost no oil or gas reserves may end up being one of the luckiest breaks in human history.
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Good morning with good news: Global offshore wind deployment will skyrocket 147% in 2025, compared to 2024. It will likely set an annual record high of 19 GW.
Global offshore wind adds:
2025: 19 GW
2024: 7.7 GW
2023: 10.2 GW
2022: 9.3 GW
2021: 18 GW
electrek.co/2025/03/03/o... #energysky
Global offshore wind adds:
2025: 19 GW
2024: 7.7 GW
2023: 10.2 GW
2022: 9.3 GW
2021: 18 GW
electrek.co/2025/03/03/o... #energysky
Offshore wind roars back in 2025 with 19 GW of additions and China in the lead
Global offshore wind is gearing up for a comeback in 2025, with new capacity additions expected to hit 19 GW, according to Rystad Energy.
electrek.co
March 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Good morning with good news: Global offshore wind deployment will skyrocket 147% in 2025, compared to 2024. It will likely set an annual record high of 19 GW.
Global offshore wind adds:
2025: 19 GW
2024: 7.7 GW
2023: 10.2 GW
2022: 9.3 GW
2021: 18 GW
electrek.co/2025/03/03/o... #energysky
Global offshore wind adds:
2025: 19 GW
2024: 7.7 GW
2023: 10.2 GW
2022: 9.3 GW
2021: 18 GW
electrek.co/2025/03/03/o... #energysky
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GOOD NEWS: Europe’s biggest battery storage project goes live in Scotland today!
www.zenobe.com/news-and-eve...
www.zenobe.com/news-and-eve...
Europe’s Largest Battery Goes Live in Blackhillock, Scotland
Zenobē's Blackhillock battery is live, supporting the grid, cutting wasted wind power, and saving consumers £170M over 15 years.
www.zenobe.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
GOOD NEWS: Europe’s biggest battery storage project goes live in Scotland today!
www.zenobe.com/news-and-eve...
www.zenobe.com/news-and-eve...
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If it’s so easy to back out of your net-zero and DEI commitments, they were never real commitments anyway.
BlackRock’s ‘Woke’ Era Is Over
The asset manager has dropped out of climate groups and eliminated diversity targets as it tries to put ESG controversy behind it.
www.wsj.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If it’s so easy to back out of your net-zero and DEI commitments, they were never real commitments anyway.
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Rasende over Trump og J.D Vance uanstændige behandling af Zelenskij? Støt Den Danske Ukraine-komités indsamling på Mobilepay 924084!
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Rasende over Trump og J.D Vance uanstændige behandling af Zelenskij? Støt Den Danske Ukraine-komités indsamling på Mobilepay 924084!
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I would hope for the following.
1) Defence fund of €200bn to spend quickly.
2) Deficit limit that "ensures debt sustainability around 60%" acc to an independent assessment (would be 1-1.5% of GDP atm)
3) Investments that demonstrably increase growth should be exempt.
1) Defence fund of €200bn to spend quickly.
2) Deficit limit that "ensures debt sustainability around 60%" acc to an independent assessment (would be 1-1.5% of GDP atm)
3) Investments that demonstrably increase growth should be exempt.
February 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I would hope for the following.
1) Defence fund of €200bn to spend quickly.
2) Deficit limit that "ensures debt sustainability around 60%" acc to an independent assessment (would be 1-1.5% of GDP atm)
3) Investments that demonstrably increase growth should be exempt.
1) Defence fund of €200bn to spend quickly.
2) Deficit limit that "ensures debt sustainability around 60%" acc to an independent assessment (would be 1-1.5% of GDP atm)
3) Investments that demonstrably increase growth should be exempt.
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"Avg production costs have fallen steeply, thanks to plummeting material prices & incremental improvements in manufacturing efficiency
LFP battery costs are already approaching $50 /kWh
Combined w/ price competition, this is now enough to drive profound growth in demand for electric vehicles (EVs)"
LFP battery costs are already approaching $50 /kWh
Combined w/ price competition, this is now enough to drive profound growth in demand for electric vehicles (EVs)"
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Avg production costs have fallen steeply, thanks to plummeting material prices & incremental improvements in manufacturing efficiency
LFP battery costs are already approaching $50 /kWh
Combined w/ price competition, this is now enough to drive profound growth in demand for electric vehicles (EVs)"
LFP battery costs are already approaching $50 /kWh
Combined w/ price competition, this is now enough to drive profound growth in demand for electric vehicles (EVs)"
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China invested a staggering $940B in clean energy in 2024, nearing the $1.12T global fossil fuel investment. Massive shift highlights China’s dominance in renewables, accelerating the global energy transition. If the trend continues, fossil fuel investments could soon be overshadowed. #CleanEnergy
Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy technologies made up more than 10% of China’s economy in 2024 for the first...
www.carbonbrief.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
China invested a staggering $940B in clean energy in 2024, nearing the $1.12T global fossil fuel investment. Massive shift highlights China’s dominance in renewables, accelerating the global energy transition. If the trend continues, fossil fuel investments could soon be overshadowed. #CleanEnergy
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A great dataset from @ember-energy.org
EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash.
data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...
EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash.
data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...
February 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A great dataset from @ember-energy.org
EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash.
data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...
EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash.
data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.