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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1h

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1h

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

14/ Listen to the Lapland's Green Gold - Unlocking the Arctic's Sustainable Energy and e-Fuel Potential paper in the podcast on our research results: youtu.be/cWuLJrcWIBs – this is AI-generated using Google NotebookLM.

Lapland's Green Gold - Unlocking the Arctic's Sustainable Energy and e-Fuel Potential

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

13/ The insights are valuable for policymakers & industrial developers, showcasing how regions with abundant RE resources, existing industrial infrastructure & access to biogenic CO2 can support the energy transition. This strategy could attract new energy-intensive industries.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

12/ The large-scale RE build-out will also generate substantial fiscal revenue for local municipalities (UN SDG 8), and position Lapland to help Finland phase out net electricity imports, enhancing national energy security within the EU.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

11/ PtX units generate 5000 GWh waste heat annually. About 1226 GWh are recovered for district heating, the remaining surplus can create further value. Following Iceland, low-cost heat could be used for agriculture, powering greenhouses to enhance food security for Finland & EU.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

10/ e-Methanol production is enabled at a competitive 96 €/MWh, offering an edge over other potential Arctic energy hubs by leveraging existing industrial infrastructure.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

9/ The study on Lapland projects a 28% decrease in annual energy system costs and a 53% drop in electricity generation cost by 2050 compared to 2020. Lapland's existing pulp and paper industry offers biogenic CO2 for cost-effective e-hydrocarbon production.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

8/ By 2050, Lapland's total power generation capacity can reach 7.5 GW, with 4.5 GW wind dominating generation, alongside a jump in solar PV capacity. This mix leverages the complementary profiles of solar PV (summer sun) and wind power (winter wind) for a stable #100RE system.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

7/ The energy system in Lapland is strongly dominated by industrial energy demand. Expansion of power generation is largely done by wind power with solar PV investments in the 2040s.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

6/ We used LUT-ESTM to simulate Finland’s energy transition & analysed Lapland’s transition within the broader national energy system. LUT-ESTM is an optimisation model with a target function to minimise annualised system costs. Today, Lapland operates a near #100RE power system.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

5/ Despite this growing interest, there's a research gap in understanding the techno-economic feasibility of RE in remote Arctic regions like Lapland, which possess rich onshore wind power but limited low-cost solar PV potential.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

4/ EU needs considerable amounts of e-fuels, maximising domestic production in regions with abundant renewable resources, like the Nordics. This enhances energy security & reduces dependency on external suppliers. Such regions leverage low-cost power for domestic fuel production.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

3/ The EU targets 55% emissions reduction by 2030 & climate neutrality by 2050. However, hard-to-abate sectors, i.e. chemical industry, marine and aviation transport require energy-dense fuels, leading to a significant demand for e-fuels & e-chemicals via a #PtXeconomy

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

2/ This research belongs to a stream of energy transition research for #Finland: main transition study doi.org/10.1016/j.en... , the role of heat pumps doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... , and the role of new nuclear doi.org/10.1016/j.en....

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2h

1/ New @lut.fi study shows that remote, sparsely populated #Lapland can transition to a #100RE system by 2050 doi.org/10.1016/j.en..., becoming a key Arctic energy hub with a very low LCOE of 28.2 €/MWh and can contribute to global defossilisation efforts

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 1d

To put this in context, German ratepayers pay and average 0.28-0.40 euros/kWh through the year.

Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

Germany wraps up solar-plus-storage tender with average price of €0.0531/kWh www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/08/g...

Germany wraps up solar-plus-storage tender with average price of €0.0531/kWh

Germany has concluded a new renewables tender for innovative projects, securing 485 MW of capacity at final prices ranging from €0.0479 ($0.0557)/kWh to €0.0559/kWh

www.pv-magazine.com

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 22h

Podcast on Grand Inga's Troubled Past - Why Africa's Energy Future Might Not Need This Hydropower youtu.be/i53O8ZabrQ0 for this article from 2018 doi.org/10.3390/en11...
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Grand Inga's Troubled Past - Why Africa's Energy Future Might Not Need This Hydropower

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

Germany wraps up solar-plus-storage tender with average price of €0.0531/kWh www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/08/g...

Germany wraps up solar-plus-storage tender with average price of €0.0531/kWh

Germany has concluded a new renewables tender for innovative projects, securing 485 MW of capacity at final prices ranging from €0.0479 ($0.0557)/kWh to €0.0559/kWh

www.pv-magazine.com

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

Berlin solar mandate drives rooftop PV installations www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/08/b...

Berlin solar mandate drives rooftop PV installations

Berlin’s mandate for solar installations on new and renovated roofs has spurred rapid rooftop expansion, but the German capital remains far from its 2035 clean energy goal.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

Australian researchers hit 27.06% with triple-junction perovskite cell www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/08/a...

Australian researchers hit 27.06% with triple-junction perovskite cell

A team of researchers led by the University of Sydney has fabricated a triple-junction perovskite-perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell that achieved a power conversion efficiency of up to 27.06% and s...

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 2d

New study looks into stabilizing 100% renewable energy systems over multiple bad weather years.

It concludes that the best approach is a little more overcapacity (e.g. 3.5% extra) as that is much cheaper than excess seasonal storage.

Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 3d

1/ New research @lut.fi presents the first global analysis of inter-annual storage for #100RE systems in 145 regions doi.org/10.1016/j.ap.... Strategic generation overcapacity is a significantly more cost-effective solution than building massive storage.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

nein. Was sich nicht direkt elektrifizieren lässt hat dann meist mit power-to-hydrogen-to-X Umwandlungsketten zu tun. H2 selbst ist in der Tat nicht besonders wichtig, aber e-fuels & e-chemicals ist schwer ohne H2 herstellbar - Lösungen mit noch geringen TRLs brauchen auch noch etwas

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

Bitte unsere Arbeiten lesen, da findet sich sehr viel zu Elektrochemie, mit power-to-chemicals, also e-chemicals. Nur geht es hier nicht um die Chemieindustrie sondern um inter-annual balancing und das für das gesamte Energiesystem, was Elektrizität und chemische Energieträger betrifft.

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 1d

bitte die Arbeit lesen, dann wird auch klar wie's gemeint ist - man kann speichern, man kann auch mehr Kapazitäten bauen ... das ist dann nötig wenn es fossile Energien nicht mehr gibt.

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