Edgardo Sepulveda
@E_R_Sepulveda
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Consulting economist. Telecoms, electricity, inequality and other analysis...all with data...lots and lots of data.
Toronto, Canada
Joined October 2015
"Does renewable electricity hurt the poor?". In Germany, YES. Yet more researchers find that the renewable support levy (EEG) paid by rate payers and used in Germany to help finance wind & solar operators resulted in higher electricity prices and was regressive: increased energy
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What is happening? 😱😱. Deutsche Welle (DW), the German state-owned broadcaster just dropped a 42 minute documentary casting doubt on Germany's wind & solar-driven Energiewende (energy transition), including that it could lead to blackouts: "Power failure in Germany - Horror.
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🇩🇪German electricity⚡consumers paid €320 billion to help subsidize wind, solar & biomass operators. Starting in 2000, the "Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) surcharge" was included in most consumer electricity bills to finance high feed-in-tariffs (FIT) and "premium"
"Does renewable electricity hurt the poor?". In Germany, YES. Yet more researchers find that the renewable support levy (EEG) paid by rate payers and used in Germany to help finance wind & solar operators resulted in higher electricity prices and was regressive: increased energy
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1/3. Ever wondered what dispatchable vs. intermittent electricity generation looks like? #energytwitter.Inspired by @TristanKamin, I charted hourly 2021 data (8,760 points) for Ontario, Canada. Start with 2 largest sources, Nuclear (57% of mix) & Hydro (24%), scaled accordingly.
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During the 41 days from August 1 to September 10 the European wind fleet had an average hourly output of 39.5 GW. Capacity is 255GW, so European wind had an average capacity factor of 15.5% during that period.
Europe wind output from August to present .From ~255GW of wind turbines
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🚨Hot off the presses, important energy economics paper provocatively titled “Energy Saving May Kill”. What if national policy-makers decided to suddenly shut down a generation source providing 30% of your country’s electricity? And in the short/medium term your alternative
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@PeterHavercan @dougbamford @Mining_Atoms @AlScottRational @_DrFred_ For Ontario, Canada for 2021, the charts below show Nuclear and Solar and Nuclear and Wind. Based on hourly observations for 365 days.
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A very welcome public acknowledgement from Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change on the necessity of nuclear energy/technology:. "Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, a former environmental activist acknowledged Tuesday he was opposed to nuclear energy but now.
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Good news from 🇫🇷France & for French nuclear⚡️:. 1) proposal to fiscally ring-fence France from the broader European wholesale electricity market is just another example of nations/jurisdictions recognizing the limits/deficiencies of these neoliberal constructs. 2).
Marché de l’électricité : après des mois de négociations, #EDF et l’Etat s’accordent sur un prix de vente "autour de 70 euros le mégawattheure" . ➡️
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Thx to @Mining_Atoms, my earlier Ontario, Canada (non-) vs. dispatchable radar graphs are getting a second look, including from outside Canada & USA. One recurring question is choice of scaling… for example, original graph shows nuclear and wind on different scales. A 6/6 🧵
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2/3. How does Wind (9% of mix) look? With Nuclear on scaled graphic. Wind has “wind droughts", day-to-day & seasonal variation. Wind produces ≈ 30-35% of theoretical capacity (CF); Nuclear≈85-90%, Hydro≈40-45%.
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#MarcelBoiteux died earlier today, aged 101. So many achievements. (see his Wikipedia entry below). He also may have outlived some of the anti-nuclear terrorists (never identified) that tried to assassinate him in 1977 when he was head of EDF (the French publicly-owned
Belated happy 100th birthday (May 9) to French electricity economist Marcel Boiteux. Former Pres. @econometricsoc, developed Ramsey-Boiteux pricing for monopolies, former DG @EDFofficiel, where he championed electrification & survived assassination attempt.
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Everyone subsidizes something in energy. but what & how much?. In 🇩🇪 Germany, producer subsidies for renewables (EEG)⚡️electricity (see below) are greater than all fossil fuel🛢️(FF) subsidies. That is on a per unit basis and includes "implicit" FF subsidies from
🇩🇪German electricity⚡consumers paid €320 billion to help subsidize wind, solar & biomass operators. Starting in 2000, the "Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) surcharge" was included in most consumer electricity bills to finance high feed-in-tariffs (FIT) and "premium"
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3/3. The scaled graph shows Solar (2% of mix) has seasonal (weakest in winter), and day-to-night variation so CF≈15%. Intermittent non-dispatchables require "backup", role currently played by gas (≈6%) in Ontario. Stay tuned for more graphs, inc. of gas, and other combinations
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In just one month in early 2022 more than 10,000 Canadians signed a Parliamentary petition initiated by @Dr_Keefer and sponsored by @ctochor to have the 🇨🇦 Green Bond Framework revised to include #nuclearenergy and today that revision was announced!. Congrats!
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Nuclear, you know, like the reactors at Indian Point 3 (IP3) and FitzPatrick, both of which you @NYPAenergy owned, and then decided to privatize by selling them to Entergy for a cool $1 billion in 2000.
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Bruce Power, that operates one of world's largest nuclear facilities right here in Ontario, has just issued another Green Bond to finance their refurbishment process. That is $600 million in ESG nuclear financing, on top of 2021's $500 million Green Bond.
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With virtually no hydro resources, Belgium reduced emissions intensity by 60% due to nuclear rollout; went from well above to well below AVG emissions, maintaining below AVG prices. Emissions have stayed below AVG, as gas displaced coal.Prices have stayed below AVG until recently
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Wow, that was fast @GrantChalmers! From just-released (ex BP) Statistical Review, one of the better ways to present a standarized comparison of sustained increase in clean electricity generation by technology!. Hydro & nuclear make up 16 of the top 20 spots; wind and in.
Largest 10-Year deployments of electricity generation via Statistical Review of World Energy 2023. More solar entries, Australia moves past half way. Can Finland, Norway and Sweden maintain the wind momentum?.#electricity #energy #rstats #ggplot2.h/t @EnergyInstitute
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So given Ontario's🇨🇦 generation⚡️mix (2nd figure), what is the average cost/price (RPP) faced by consumers (1st figure)?. Hydro & nuclear are low-cost, always below average cost; gas at or above average; solar, biofuel & wind are high-cost, always above average cost. Ontario
Ontario, Canada🇨🇦 as a clean-electricity⚡️case study highlighting differences between ACTUAL PRICES to CONSUMERS (RPP) versus the oft-cited MODELLED levelized COST of energy (LCOE) to PRODUCERS based on Lazard financial modelling. Actual vs. Modelled.Price vs. Cost.Consumer vs.
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Spotted one of these @DavidSuzukiFDN (DSF)-funded billboards in Toronto. While DSF and its founder have made very significant contributions to environmental awareness in Canada, this “100% renewables by 2035” electricity policy proposal for Ontario is irresponsible and should be
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Nuclear energy is a "no regrets" good option - even if humanity does NOT take climate change seriously, or we cannot agree on climate change, nuclear energy still makes sense.
Si l'humanité prenait le changement climatique au sérieux, elle s'accorderait à conduire un programme mondial de nucléarisation, en commençant par les pays stables en déficit d'infrastructures électriques et bas carbone. Tout le reste n'est que littérature et gaspillages.
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Important new article providing assessment of US experience with deregulated electricity markets by current FERC Commissioner @ChristieFERC. Through a series of Orders starting in late 1970s FERC enabled the introduction of competition, the creation of (inter-state) regional
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Great to see this in Canada's just-announced 2023 Budget - a level playing field for the application of the ITC: all clean electricity generation investment - including large & small nuclear, refurbished & new, public & private!
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Is your electricity unionized? 🧑🏽🏭🧑🏾🔧. Today I add Canada to the USA (from May 10): the beginnings of a cross-national database of %union workers by type of electricity generation!. Figure includes national %union rates for context and a secondary axis to adjust for much lower USA
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1/3. "Measure What Matters": public vs. private ownership of nuclear generation across globe. GW-weighted public ownership in top 8 countries (by reactors: 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇳) is 63%. For remaining 24 countries ≈75% public (TBC). So global public ownership is ≈65%.
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From the Toronto Sun's editorial of April 26: "Trudeau is right on nuclear energy":. "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau supports the increased use of nuclear power because, without it, it will be impossible to reach his goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.
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1st time I see "baseload" nuclear vs "variable" wind & solar generation presented this way. I make/like electricity graphs & I find this stunning: hourly generation over 28 days (weeks 47 to 50 of 2021) in France. Sharing with other e-graphists: @GrantChalmers @lowcarbonpower.
Nombreuses sont les critiques sur la soi-disant « intermittence » de l’énergie nucléaire. Pour rappel, la seule énergie intermittente, c’est l’énergie renouvelable. La démonstration en trois graphiques.
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4/6. So now we can see context for choice of scale, with left (original) scaled to show 2 maxima in one graph, and right (new) on same scale. Wind has “wind droughts", day-to-day & seasonal variation, but this is much more evident in left. The right emphasizes the relative size.
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1/5. More Ontario, Canada visuals following-up earlier thread #energytwitter .How do nuclear, hydro, gas & wind work to meet Market Demand in one of the cleanest multi-tech grids in world?.It has cost us dearly to get here, pity some of it is now at risk🧵.
1/3. Ever wondered what dispatchable vs. intermittent electricity generation looks like? #energytwitter.Inspired by @TristanKamin, I charted hourly 2021 data (8,760 points) for Ontario, Canada. Start with 2 largest sources, Nuclear (57% of mix) & Hydro (24%), scaled accordingly.
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France reduced emissions intensity by 80% in 11 peak years of nuclear rollout of late-1970s. Went from AVG to very low emissions, maintaining AVG prices. Emissions have stayed very low with stable nuclear & some hydro, sup. by small non-hydro renewables. Prices remain below AVG.
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Ontario, Canada🇨🇦 as a clean-electricity⚡️case study highlighting differences between ACTUAL PRICES to CONSUMERS (RPP) versus the oft-cited MODELLED levelized COST of energy (LCOE) to PRODUCERS based on Lazard financial modelling. Actual vs. Modelled.Price vs. Cost.Consumer vs.
Latest Ontario Energy Board electricity generation supply costs RPP report for the next 12 months just dropped. and here is my update going back ten years. this time trying it with a log scale. Hydro remains our lowest supply cost generation technology, followed by nuclear
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On video availability. I have been told that Youtube link I included above does not seem to work in Germany. It could be that it is geo-blocked there (and perhaps elsewhere?). The direct DW also does not appear to work in Germany, but perhaps this is a general DW (which is.
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Finland reduced emissions intensity by 70% in 8 years due to nuclear rollout of late-1970s. Went from AVG to low emissions, maintaining below-AVG prices. Emissions have stayed below AVG with stable nuclear & hydro stable, supplemented by non-hydro renewables recently.
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“Power at cost” was the slogan used by Sir Adam Beck, the Conservative MPP and first chair of Ontario Hydro, created in 1906, to campaign against expensive private power in favour of public, low-cost electricity such that even the “poorest working man will have electric light
The spirit of Sir Adam Beck is alive and well in Ontario. Abundant, reliable inexpensive electricity, this will be the foundation that underpins electrification in the province. 💪.
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🚨New Blog🚨: Tracks 100 years - a CENTURY of data - of public ownership of generation in Canada's electricity sector. 20% in 1917, peaks at 87% early-1990s, now 64%. Next blog, how could ownership impact our ability to meet our electrification challenge?.
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5/6. But the reduced intermittency comparibility of same-scaling really gets lost for solar in Ontario because of the order of magnitude size differences. The seasonal (& day to night) intermittency for solar is evident in left (scaled to show 2 maxima), but lost in right!
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Latest Ontario Energy Board electricity generation supply costs RPP report for the next 12 months just dropped. and here is my update going back ten years. this time trying it with a log scale. Hydro remains our lowest supply cost generation technology, followed by nuclear
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Super pleased to have my first @TheAgenda article, discussing the $6.9 billion/year (yes BILLION) Ontario Government electricity subsidies, how we got here and what the parties are proposing to do about it!. A shorter update from my 2018 election article:.
Ontario election: The $6.9 billion budget item that (almost) no one is talking about — by @E_R_Sepulveda #onpoli #onelxn
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Which #OECD countries have lowered #electricity #emissions? How did they do it, at what pace, at what price? #COP26. My 5th round of 4-country profiles: #Denmark, #France, #NewZealand, #Slovakia . Include emissions & price averages (AVG) from 24-country sample 4 comparison!. 🧵.
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4/5. Wind is “out of sync” in Ontario; “wind droughts” during summer peak….e.g. during peak 14-day August 13-26, 2021 period Wind produced only of 2.2% mix, at capacity factor of 8.4%. So Gas had to do heavy-lifting (21% of mix) during two weeks to keep lights on & AC humming….
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"The declaration will call on the World Bank & other [IFIs] to include nuclear energy in their lending policies. The US will likely be joined by UK, France, Sweden, Finland and South Korea". Will Canada🇨🇦, a top-tier nuclear nation, not also sign this declaration at COP28?.
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A banner day!.
not sure I've ever seen electricity maps estimate the carbon intensity of Ontario's electricity below that of Quebec's!.
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The @AtmosphericFund is a City of Toronto agency with a mandate to reduce local GHGs. Endowed with $100M, TAF has a strong record funding local efficiency projects, but has stumbled in recent advocacy to influence provincial electricity policy. Extended 🧵.
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"Nuclear power is a safe, reliable, and clean energy source. It is also a critical input in life‐saving medical technology. Ontario is fortunate to be a global leader in the nuclear industry.".
The Ontario government tabled its 2023 budget today, which clearly reaffirms its commitment to supporting the cornerstone of the province's #cleanenergy and economic advantage, #NuclearEnergy present and future. #CANDU #BWRX300.
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6/6. I had already shown hydro before. For completeness here is Gas, scaled & descaled. Gas in Ontario has low CF because use is for peaking & fill in gaps when Wind/Solar not producing. Check out August during peak summer demand (AC) and a "wind drought". THE END
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On this day, September 4, in 1882 the Pearl Street generation station opens in New York City, the world's first centralized commercial electricity station. "The station was built by the Edison Illuminating Company, under the direction of Francis Upton, hired by Thomas
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Super pleased to have been one of the first signatories, now with a total of 9,123 other Canadians, of petition urging Federal Government to include homegrown CANDU tech in Clean Technology Investment Tax Credit. Thx to @Dr_Keefer for initiating & @viraniarif for sponsoring it.
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After adding CL, CZ, IL, KR, MX & PL to now have 30 OECD countries in sample. An update of sustained material peak rollout (SMPR); any period in which N or WS expanded gen%mix >1%/year over ≈10 yrs. Shows sample countries on average rolled out N (3.6%) faster than WS (2.0%).
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5/5. Gas will increase if nuclear Pickering goes offline in 2025. Even with LARGEST batteries, more Wind cannot reliably replace Pickering & eliminate Gas by 2030. Reliable & lowest-carbon abatement cost option = refurbish Pickering & keep Gas for backup
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Belated shout out to @fredstaffordcs & @Matthuber78 for @jacobin public power in USA article - highly recommended!. As a complement, and to provide analysis of how Canada come to be an “existing highly decarb grid . mostly powered by public centralized hydro & nuclear". 🇨🇦🧵.
Large-scale public ownership of utilities, supported by strong union power, is the only way to avoid a decentralized renewable energy industry that runs on deregulated markets, tax shelters for corporations, and an insecure and transient workforce.
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The one chart I would've liked to have had when I started researching electricity in Ontario, Canada:. Generation and ownership/control (public or private enterprise) mix by tech. Evolution of unit costs by tech; how and by whom are those prices/costs set?. #energytwitter #onpoli
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@Klaus_W_W Other Germans have also confirmed that it geo-blocked in Germany. Solution is VPN to access from other country/region.
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Great to see Ontario's union-strong world-leading nuclear sector highlighted in today's Fall Economic Statement. and that the newly-created Ontario Infrastructure Bank could support the expansion of nuclear power.
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I am no longer grumpy.
In 2022 the Director General of @NRCan thought there was never any chance of Canada’s Green Bond framework including non-emitting nuclear energy. Today ⚛️ was included, another example of growing public support for nuclear energy projects
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Follow-up to Nov.16 thread of (non-) vs. dispatchable generation in Ontario, Canada. For nuclear & wind, left scaled so both have same linear-hour max, while right on same scale. Graphs highlight intermittency. Known issue: radial areas will not reflect annual totals. A 5/5 🧵
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2/6. In Canada, provinces set electricity policy. Ontario is largest (pop≈15m), with low emissions (≈25-50 gCO2/kWh), due to legacy nuclear & hydro. Gas, wind, solar, biofuel are more recent. Achievement: elimination of coal (≈25% in 2003) mostly via restart of some nuclear.
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Why are nuclear jobs union jobs?. Check out the breadth and depth of unions involved in building, supplying and operating a nuclear generating plant!.
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3/6. How about prices/costs? Complex mix econ. regulation (some nuclear & hydro), expansion agreement (rest nuclear), Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for gas & feed-in-tariffs (FITs) for wind, solar & biofuels (. Graph shows 10-year evolution of cost mix.
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Great @mattgurney Pickering refurbishment article, focussing on electricity reliability (looking at you Germany, of the dimming street lights, for starters); complements earlier article by @jm_mcgrath looking at Pickering from a political perspective.
There’s a lot to like about the idea of extending the service life of Ontario's Pickering nuclear reactors — and adding a whole bunch more of them, according to @mattgurney. #nuclearpower #ClimateAction #onpoli.
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Not only that, @fredstaffordcs, but initial data analysis shows that renewables, mostly rolled out by private entities, are associated with price increases that are more than five times higher than that of nuclear, for example, that was mostly rolled out by public entities.
Why do socialists have to pray at altar of renewables when making otherwise useful, necessary crit of privatization & profit-seeking in ⚡️ industry. The point is to develop clean, cheap, expanded electrical grid according to pub need, long-term planning; not just more renewables!.
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⚡️Is your electricity publicly- or privately-provided?⚡️ Ownership (& control) of electricity generation by technology in Canada 🇨🇦 and US 🇺🇸. In Canada publicly-owned enterprises like the provincial (crown) corporations (OPG in Ontario, Manitoba Hydro, etc.) are the norm,
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Yesterday I discussed new CFD-type regime for existing (& planned 10GW new capacity) French🇫🇷 nuclear fleet, at €70/MWh in 2022 prices. For new capacity pricing context, UK🇬🇧 just announced a CFD at £73/MWh in 2012 prices for upcoming AR6 offshore wind auction (capacity could be.
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Yes, Liberals leaving it to the "market". Because COP26 is about markets, not policy. Because the Liberal carbon tax does not impact markets. Because the Liberal purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline ($4.5b) was all about free markets. Because we get to pick & choose.
Liberals leaving nuclear's future 'to the market' while other countries bet big
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1/2. Another well-written piece by @nukebarbarian, this on Germany's energy policy and its path dependence to current geo-strategic conundrum. Results? Billions of Euros, high consumer prices, dirty grid. My target? Feed-in-tariffs (FIT) & how they increase economic inequality.
Happy to be in @compactmag_ writing about the insanity of Germany's commitment to shutting down its nuclear reactors. Thanks to @Edwin_Aponte_Jr for the masterful edits.
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@fredstaffordcs @Matthuber78 @Leigh_Phillips @TUED_global @CVOUICNI @IBEW @SPEACanada @TheSocietySays @collectifission @_cosatu By popular demand. the figure with the same vertical axes - highlights the difference between the absolute levels across both countries!. Also, allows me to add further description to the differences in level of vertical coverage between two surveys.
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Re-upping this on Canada Day from my site - how does Canada's electricity grid compare?. Based on zero-direct emissions, centrally-provided hydro and nuclear generation, the grid has low emmisions AND low prices. AND the grid is majority publicly-owned
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Update on Canada & US electricity sector union rates. Updated figure now includes distribution and transmission, in addition to the high-level generation technologies. One question that came up from the June 1 tweet was the "relatively" low hydro union rates in Canada. I
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@brorurban @TristanKamin Until the early 1950s we were almost all hydro, after which we ran out & started building coal & then nuclear, which we used to phase out coal. Now, nuclear and hydro is baseload (cover 80-90% avg. demand), with wind & solar on top and gas covering the gaps and peaks.
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25. Local energy efficiency solutions do not always translate well into electricity policy. TAF could improve its advocacy by: 1) doing its scientific research first; 2) more accurate comms; 3) following the science on electricity tech/systems, rather than its “usual allies”. END.
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Today we first get news that organized workers in Ontario - @OFL - endorses #nuclearenergy and now in the fall economic statement we get the 🇨🇦Federal Green Bond Program Framework revised to include #nuclearenergy, including to reflect "evolving investor preferences". This
NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS AND REFURBS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR GREEN BONDS! . Per Fall Economic Statement, released just 20 minute sago
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Switzerland has had decarb. electricity for 60 years! First relying on hydro, kept very low emissions by adding nuclear in 1970s, with no non-hydro renewables. Prices have stayed low. For 2019, non-emit hydro & nuclear = 99%, emissions<50 kg/MWh & HH prices= USD$182/MWh
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Another great piece of writing from @nukebarbarian, arguing "efficiency is not generation"; exposing degrowth dreams for the nightmares they would be for most of humanity.
You can read my latest piece on why the Democrats are so obsessed with transmission schemes as a "solution" to power generation problems in @Gen_Atomic's The Kernel. Thanks to @ecopragmatist for giving me a shot!
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Very nice graphics, cutting through the PR hype. Thank you @GrantChalmers.
Carbon Intensity of Electricity consumption in 2021. Monthly minimum vs maximum readings over the last 12 months, overall median represented by a blue asterisk. #rstats #ggplot2 #gganimate #carbonneutrality #ESG #cleanenergy #energytwitter @electricityMap
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Which #OECD countries have lowered #electricity #emissions, by how much, at what pace, with which tech, & at what price?.6th of 4-country profiles: #Belgium, #Germany, #Greece, #Netherlands. ANNOUNCEMENT: new web-site with all 24 profiles - check out 🧵.
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2/2. F7 combines F3, F5 & F6. Multivariate regression forthcoming. For now, set of simple regressions show that during RESPECTIVE peak roll-out periods, each %-point increase in Nuclear was associated with HH price increase of $1.66 on avg; that figure was 5X for RE, at $8.74
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Nice. Could not find a poster/pamphlet for the "Atoms not Dams" campaign, but how about this earlier (1955) USPS stamp commemorating the "Atoms for Peace" programme?
Sierra Club California had an “Atoms not Dams” campaign in the 1960s to build a nuclear plant in San Francisco, with the goal to promote conservation in California.
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Yet another great piece from @fredstaffordcs, this time in @TheBTI arguing for the benefits of public power, of nuclear power, and of public nuclear power in the USA. In contrast, in Canada public power is the norm, & all nuclear power to date has been built as public power. 🧵.
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, @fredstaffordcs argues it’s time to revive a New Deal politics of public power—one in which nuclear energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority should be front and center:.
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The Board of @AtmosphericFund, a City of Toronto agency with a $100 million endowment, will meet Tuesday November 21, inc. to vote on proposed investments. On the agenda is a $3.5 million investment to provide a type of line-of-credit for an unknown proponent so that this
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No. Not in France. Not in Canada. Not anywhere.
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🚨New blog🚨 looking at declining USA nuclear capacity since 2008, by ownership:. Overall change: -6.1 GW.Privately-owned capacity: -7.1 GW.Publicly-owned capacity: +1.0 GW. Can private nuclear stabilize? Is increased public ownership viable in the USA?.
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🚨My first Substack (sort of)!. BF Randall has included some of my Ontario, Canada quantitative and graphical electricity analysis in his Substack!.
Latest Substack article: Huge respect for the work of @E_R_Sepulveda .
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24. In its PA Report comms TAF notes that it “learned” from its “usual allies” & Argyle study, that a “modern” grid is not “just about” reducing GHGs but also about creating an approach to reduce “reliance on large, centralized facilities”.Why? Based on what scientific rationale?
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Congrats Kurt for this organizing effort, and to the NDP riding associations across the country that supported this important policy initiative, making it one of the top 1% most-submitted resolutions. The internal "Resolution Prioritization" process to determine which.
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🚨Electricity & unions data request🚨. I am interested in compiling an international database of current (and historical) union density rates by type of electricity generation technology. I would make any findings available here. This could be at the utility level
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My latest Ontario hydro blog, first @OntarioPCParty edition, where: 1) I assess @GregRickford options on more borrowing to maintain below-cost prices; 2) analyse cancellation of #renewables projects; 756 by Directive & White Pines by legislation. #onpoli
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With no zero-emission gen, Hungary initially had rel. very high emissions, until large 1980s nuclear roll-out halved emissions, further progress in last 15 years, during which prices have increased. For 2019, non-emit gen.= 56%, emissions = 320 kg/MWh, HH prices = USD$248/MWh
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"La Conquista de la Energia" wall mural at #Mexico's UNAM university, by José Chávez Morado, completed 1953. from darkness/fear on the left, progressing rightwards to a new era of light, guided by the atom.
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Interesting to see the comparions across the Atlantic. Ontario, Canada's 18 🇨🇦CANDU reactors are rate-regulated/contracted at average of CAD$101/MWh (about €68/MWh), which includes operation & maintanance AND additional cost of refurbishment to extend life of 10 units by
Good news from 🇫🇷France & for French nuclear⚡️:. 1) proposal to fiscally ring-fence France from the broader European wholesale electricity market is just another example of nations/jurisdictions recognizing the limits/deficiencies of these neoliberal constructs. 2).
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Who said Doomberg is all doom and gloom?. This is ultimately an optimistic thread on the power (pardon pun) of political advocacy (with a little help from an energy crisis) to influence, and hopefully change, prevailing soft-energy policies in Germany and California.
1/ By systematically shutting down baseload-critical nuclear power facilities and replacing them with intermittent renewable energy, Germany has left itself – and by extension, the entire European Union – vulnerable to shortages of reliable sources of electricity.
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@CER_REC That Report "explores possible energy futures" including "six possible electricity scenarios". There is no "will". These are all POSSIBLE scenarios. Your question should have been "in our Report, under our scenarios, what are the generation sources. ".
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📘Look what just arrived in the mail from @VersoBooks: 📕Adolph Reed Jr's "The South" and 📗@Matthuber78's "Climate Change as Class War". choices, choices.
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@pjanik_otm Thx, I had not seen this before, but very pleased to see that the cumulative EEG numbers to 2021 in this report are €304 Billion (constant, 2022), which are consistent with my estimates of €320 billion to 2022 (constant, 2022). Agreed, these are the narrowly-defined EEG costs.
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1/3. The ⚡️electricity⚡️sector in Canada is highly unionized, with a 70% national average, compared to 29% for all workers. But as this new custom Labour Force Survey data shows, there is significant union variation across provinces. What are some of the possible drivers?
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Back to EU, Slovakia reduced emissions by 50% in 8 peak years of nuclear rollout of late-1970s; from well above to AVG emissions. Increase nuclear & hydro lowered emissions further to below AVG. Prices increased from 1999 to well above AVG & have stabilized/decreased recently.
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Great overview of failure of "restructured" electricity markets in USA to deliver on promise of lower prices & increased reliability (& unicorns). Thx @UtilityDive for publishing this insightful article by former head of IL PUC, a restructured state!.
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