Yes, this is a concern with some older inverter designs. They use phase-locked loops which are meant to lock to the grid frequency but if you and your neighbours on the feeder are generating and consuming a roughly…
My reason for assuming that they would have made the same choices or in any case a broadly equivalent one is the fact that the BNetzA, the BMWE, and political stakeholders knew from the beginning of the renewable…
I know how re-dispatch works. The issue is that the physical reality of the network and the location of generators and loads is fixed at time of [re-]dispatch. Regardless of how you reconfigure the dispatch mechanism,…
Not all markets, and not even all European markets, assume a single trading zone (i.e. a copper plate network). Re-dispatch costs are high because policy choices have created a physical reality that drives high…
The Idirans were right all along.
It's fine but a proposal to do something without the political will to make any of the difficult compromises required to achieve them is meaningless.
I mean, ok, fine guys but this is just more empty gestures from a club of empty heads in the GroenLinks/PvdA clown-car. I don't recall that they were against (in fact they were in favour) of the removal of the 30% tax…
Which of those references are obscure?
This is a terrible article, written by someone who is either dishonest or doesn't know what they're talking about and has never been to London, covering a paper that appears to be reasonably well done but has some…
>And while they are shutting down coal, they still have a huge former coal plant that is now burning biomass in London. That's a single plant that powers most of London. Do you mean Drax? That's nowhere near London.…
Part of the problem is that heat pumps aren't really well suited to a use case where you frequently have to bring a house up to temp in the way you're describing. If you have a big overnight set-back and then the…
London as well, or at least broke even. (Although of course this is complicated to assess and contested). Same reason, all infrastructure was either already there or usable after (the Olympic stadium was sold to a…
There's a huge amount of North-South capacity being built as part of the holistic network design programme which will unlock a lot of capacity and substantially reduce curtailment.
We (an engineering consultancy, so not software but physical infrastructure) have an internal ChatGPT so that people can use it for work. I find that it is quite good at answering textbook type questions and giving…
Plea bargains are heavily restricted in the UK and many of these cases were heard in Crown courts. I agree about getting rid of private prosecutions though.
There's broadly two reasons for this: One, the evidence for it being a carcinogen remains relatively weak compared to many other substances we know of. It's in that category of chemicals where possible effects show up…
The Polish wholesale power price is above even what nuclear power costs to deliver in higher-cost UK and US markets on an LCOE basis (not that LCOE is a great way of comparing power costs but there it is).
PGE will finance it on-balance sheet, the way they would a coal plant. Most likely there will be US export finance for the elements coming from the US but most spend on big nuclear plants is local. >The recent nuclear…
In many places (but not the US because of thermostat standards) HVAC systems are now typically inverter driven as well so that does remove some of the advantages of three-phase since any individual load is single-phase…
There are no "EU citizens" only citizens of EU member countries. None of those countries have freedom of speech as expansive as Americans but Americans in practice also don't have absolute freedom of speech. 1) Certain…
To be fair, while all of those things are true (and in fact the poor state of many rivers is more due to farming and to fully consented but still high-nitrate effluents from waste water treatment than to CSOs) the…
Nobody will build a heat-pump system with an on/off control system like that because the performance will be awful. Certainly not an air-to-water system.
In fact, on (2) this isn't even something an exchange can do through their Ts&Cs. Local law will decide creditor priority so in the absence of a regulatory framework that treats exchanges as "bank-like" and makes, as a…
Hydrogen is extremely easy to store underground. It is expensive to make (i.e. inefficient and capital intensive) and to move around with compressors but actually storing it if you have access to salt domes and depleted…
The challenge here is at what point in your life is one making the gamble to live in the US vs Western Europe? If I had to pick one or the other to be born in, but knew that I would be born randomly within each of these…
Yes, this is a concern with some older inverter designs. They use phase-locked loops which are meant to lock to the grid frequency but if you and your neighbours on the feeder are generating and consuming a roughly…
My reason for assuming that they would have made the same choices or in any case a broadly equivalent one is the fact that the BNetzA, the BMWE, and political stakeholders knew from the beginning of the renewable…
I know how re-dispatch works. The issue is that the physical reality of the network and the location of generators and loads is fixed at time of [re-]dispatch. Regardless of how you reconfigure the dispatch mechanism,…
Not all markets, and not even all European markets, assume a single trading zone (i.e. a copper plate network). Re-dispatch costs are high because policy choices have created a physical reality that drives high…
The Idirans were right all along.
It's fine but a proposal to do something without the political will to make any of the difficult compromises required to achieve them is meaningless.
I mean, ok, fine guys but this is just more empty gestures from a club of empty heads in the GroenLinks/PvdA clown-car. I don't recall that they were against (in fact they were in favour) of the removal of the 30% tax…
Which of those references are obscure?
This is a terrible article, written by someone who is either dishonest or doesn't know what they're talking about and has never been to London, covering a paper that appears to be reasonably well done but has some…
>And while they are shutting down coal, they still have a huge former coal plant that is now burning biomass in London. That's a single plant that powers most of London. Do you mean Drax? That's nowhere near London.…
Part of the problem is that heat pumps aren't really well suited to a use case where you frequently have to bring a house up to temp in the way you're describing. If you have a big overnight set-back and then the…
London as well, or at least broke even. (Although of course this is complicated to assess and contested). Same reason, all infrastructure was either already there or usable after (the Olympic stadium was sold to a…
There's a huge amount of North-South capacity being built as part of the holistic network design programme which will unlock a lot of capacity and substantially reduce curtailment.
We (an engineering consultancy, so not software but physical infrastructure) have an internal ChatGPT so that people can use it for work. I find that it is quite good at answering textbook type questions and giving…
Plea bargains are heavily restricted in the UK and many of these cases were heard in Crown courts. I agree about getting rid of private prosecutions though.
There's broadly two reasons for this: One, the evidence for it being a carcinogen remains relatively weak compared to many other substances we know of. It's in that category of chemicals where possible effects show up…
The Polish wholesale power price is above even what nuclear power costs to deliver in higher-cost UK and US markets on an LCOE basis (not that LCOE is a great way of comparing power costs but there it is).
PGE will finance it on-balance sheet, the way they would a coal plant. Most likely there will be US export finance for the elements coming from the US but most spend on big nuclear plants is local. >The recent nuclear…
In many places (but not the US because of thermostat standards) HVAC systems are now typically inverter driven as well so that does remove some of the advantages of three-phase since any individual load is single-phase…
There are no "EU citizens" only citizens of EU member countries. None of those countries have freedom of speech as expansive as Americans but Americans in practice also don't have absolute freedom of speech. 1) Certain…
To be fair, while all of those things are true (and in fact the poor state of many rivers is more due to farming and to fully consented but still high-nitrate effluents from waste water treatment than to CSOs) the…
Nobody will build a heat-pump system with an on/off control system like that because the performance will be awful. Certainly not an air-to-water system.
In fact, on (2) this isn't even something an exchange can do through their Ts&Cs. Local law will decide creditor priority so in the absence of a regulatory framework that treats exchanges as "bank-like" and makes, as a…
Hydrogen is extremely easy to store underground. It is expensive to make (i.e. inefficient and capital intensive) and to move around with compressors but actually storing it if you have access to salt domes and depleted…
The challenge here is at what point in your life is one making the gamble to live in the US vs Western Europe? If I had to pick one or the other to be born in, but knew that I would be born randomly within each of these…