🚨 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!
🇺🇸 Meta launches RFP for 1 to 4 gigawatts of new nuclear plants
According to the RFP, they are considering Small & Large Modular Reactors
sustainability.atmeta.com/blog/2024/12...
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
7/7
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 👇
6/7
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.
5/7
According to the article, most battery parks in the US have the capacity to provide power for 1-2 hours
Therefore 20 GW of batteries will deliver ~20-40 GWh
This can cover Denmark’s demand for 4 to 8 hours, with the assumption there has been 20-40 GWh of overproduction to charge the batteries
4/7
The article goes even further:
“In Denmark, our consumption is around 5 gigawatts - this means that the batteries in the US can cover Denmark's consumption four times”
This statement is also misleading, as there is no mention of duration that the batteries will cover Denmark’s demand.
3/7
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.
2/7
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 👇
1/7
Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, has just made its first move into nuclear power: it is partnering with PG&E's recently-saved Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant to build AI inside the plant.
The deal is being announced right now.
Here's Reuters on the story:
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
Coming up 🤭
Tremendous idea 👐
Triple Nuclear Energy
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?
a comic showing american forests being cut down to power biomass plants in Europe
🇩🇰 Welcome @sollidnuclear.bsky.social!
America has made Denmark fabulously wealthy by purchasing lots of weight loss drugs from them.
Johan is working on converting that wealth into nuclear energy in Denmark to replace their dirty biomass plants.