There is no need to shift energy from summer to winter except in a country far from the equator where all electricity sources except solar would be forbidden by law. In real life, summer production is consumed in summer (or curtailed).

The prices will really depend on much there is flexibility in the system vs how much PV, and on the rate of electrification. It’s not sure at all that prices will be mostly zero during sunny hours in 2030.

Do people still listen to Tony Blair in the UK, that he’s worth a debunk?

On doit utiliser les réseaux de façon plus intelligente => faire passer plus de kWh à réseau constant. Donc même si le coût total du réseau augmente fortement, le coût par kWh n'augmente pas autant.

It didn't age well

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Here the CEO of Total and EDF that agree in 2019 that long distance is no possible with EV's, which can only work in cities, and that "we should speak about hydrogen". youtu.be/18QDlkivfkc?...

"notre système électrique est déjà fragile, comme le souligne RTE, en annonçant de probables coupures de courant en plein cœur de cet hiver." www.linkedin.com/pulse/d%C3%A...

@mliebreich.bsky.social if you meet any of those executives who needs a consultant to explain the basics, feel free to give my contact info 😉

Indeed, it reminded me of Pouyané who was confusing amps and volts or Clamadieu who wrote that the French grid was on the brink of collapse. Do oil & gas executives really not understand electricity or they’re just spreading FUD?

Good question, I don’t know of any online course on the topic. I would go through the grid code of interest (RfG - regulation 2016/631 - if it’s for generators in Europe) and use an LLM to ask questions and get clarifications. Or ask LLM to generate a course?

Good point, I didn’t know this. It seems it can be solved with proper control design? Anyways, grid-forming inverters are not prohibited but they if course have to meet the requirements.

Inverters are required to disconnect in case of clear outage but (starting at Type B units) to stay connected in case of short disturbance (LVRT). But that’s for voltage disturbance. In case of *frequency* deviation, I don’t see what negative role a grid-forming inverter could have.

Grid-forming inverters are not prohibited afaik, otherwise can you point to the corresponding part of grid code? In Belgium, DSO’s require an external decoupling relay anyways, so we have disconnection in case of outage whatever the type of inverter.

Il suffit de voir le vocabulaire utilisé par les médias européens. Un civil palestinien qui commet une attaque est un « terroriste », mais ce mot n’est jamais utilisé pour qualifier les colons. Idem pour « otage » vs « prisonnier ».

La Shoah est principalement instrumentalisée politiquement par le lobby pro-israélien.

First of all, discovery. We can't stop finding lithium. In October, USGS shared a 5-19 million ton estimate in Arkansas (Smackover). The US already had the 3rd-largest lithium resources in the world. This new discovery could push us to the top (for now). www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...