🚨 BREAKING: No bids for Danish offshore wind farms

The Danish Energy Agency (@Energistyr) has not received a single bid for any of the three offered offshore wind farms in the North Sea.

Denmark needs to rethink its energy transition!

In the same article, Climate Expert and Meteorologist Andreas Nyholm claims that if we just build enough batteries, we’re able to store electricity.

But if wind and solar don’t produce anything, then batteries are useless.

In a dunkelflaute we need production, not storage

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In these scenarios, batteries will not help a bit as there is no surplus generation.

0 X 1,000,000 is still zero

Batteries will only be able to cover the residual demand for a couple of hours in the start of a dunkel flaute. Power system simulation of the danish grid in 2033 👇

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Even in Denmark with 11 GW installed wind and solar, batteries will not help a future dunkelflaute.

If we look at the latest dunkelflaute in Europe, we experienced days where the 11GW installed wind and solar production were near 0 in Denmark. Same happened in the surrounding countries.

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Don’t get me wrong. Batteries are great.

But comparing the most energy dense way of producing electricity with a storage technology is not only wrong, but also misleading.

Nuclear power plants in the US have a capacity factor of ~93%, why 20 GW on average pumps out 446 GWh daily.

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Batteries don’t produce electricity

On Wedensday, Danish national broadcaster @tv2.dk.web.brid.gy published a story comparing 20 GW of batteries with 20 nuclear power plants…

This is one of the reasons why the public has a misconception about energy.

Let me explain 👇
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200 GW of new nuclear in the US by 2050!

Will Trump follow?

Today the Biden administration put forward a roadmap for the deployment of 200 GW new nuclear capacity by 2050.

But one big questions lingers:

What will Donald Trump do, when he steps into office next year?