Kees van der Leun

@Sustainable2050

Building Common Futures, a new energy transition consultancy. Energy, climate &more 100% renewable energy globally by 2050 is possible! RT≠endorsement Views=own

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    11 May 2018

    Years it took us to drive up CO2 by 10 ppm: 320 → 330: 12 330 → 340: 8 340 → 350: 6 350 → 360: 7 360 → 370: 6 370 → 380: 5 380 → 390: 5 390 → 400: 5 400 → 410: 4 That’s making the climate crisis worse faster.

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    15 hours ago

    There's a sense of relief in Europe as natural gas prices climbed down from their highest point, thanks to mild weather and LNG coming in. But 105 €/MWh is 6 times the price a year ago, and futures prices are now around 90 €/MWh for all of 2022. This will hurt.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    First two on the list, due to be shut down next year, have technical problems, both after 46 years of operation.

    ***Hunterston B nuclear plant in Scotland to close early*** EDF is to close the site a year earlier than planned, starting decommissioning in January 2022. Reactors at the plant have been offline for much of the last year due to worse-than-expected cracks in the graphite core
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  4. 1 hour ago

    UK closing quite a few nuclear power plants as well these years.

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    By 2024, the Uk will have halved it's production capacity too. First two will stop production in 2022. And will only have three production facility's left until Hinkley point C opens. Was a bit surprised by that too.
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  5. 2 hours ago

    Number of Corona infections growing rapidly again: +36% in a week, globally. Most of the growth in US, UK, France, Spain, and Italy.

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    16 hours ago

    I didn't realize this. Since 2015, France's nuclear power production went down by 3 times as much as Germany's. [France could get back on track if its major maintenance operation is successful, I'd say]

    Germany gets bum rap. Electricity generation from coal in Germany dropped nearly 40TWh in 2020. And while nuclear generation in 2020 fell 11 TWh in Germany, it fell 44 TWh in France (17 TWh in Sweden). Since 2015, nuclear generation fell 28 TWh in Germany, but 82 TWh in France.
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  7. 10 hours ago

    Tennet connecting another 700 MW offshore wind farm to the Dutch grid: transformer for Hollandse Kust Zuid installed on Sunday, 20 km of the coast of The Hague.

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  8. 10 hours ago

    The forecast is now for 5 days in a row (28 Dec - 2 Jan) with 24-hour average temperatures which would be above normal for April (9.9°C) here.

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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 27

    Middle of the winter in the Netherlands: four consecutive days with 13⁰C (55F). Ok, it saves a lot of natural gas.

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  10. 11 hours ago

    These days, Dutch public TV news shows quite some people circumventing recent corona measures. Going to Austria just before travel restrictions kick in, shopping in Antwerp, etc. They generally think they're quite smart and/or deserve the break.

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  11. 12 hours ago

    Crossed it hundreds of times, still never rode it. About time ;) (Unused railway bypass through the east of Utrecht, converted to bicycle highway)

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    Great infrastructure which makes up for bad weather. The Oosterspoorbaan in Utrecht always delivers! 🚲 🌫️ 👌
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    23 hours ago

    Today's filling level of Europe's gas storages: 56% Highest: Poland and UK 87%, Italy and Portugal 77% Lowest: Austria 34%, Netherlands 36%, Slovakia 47%

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  13. 13 hours ago

    Including gas-fired auxiliary boilers (for peak demand), their share in the heat delivered by large networks was 62% in 2019: That needs to change to renewable sources of course, and that's going to take quite some effort in the coming years.

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Dutch public TV news is slightly optimistic about the sources of heat for district heating in the country. "Tilburg gets it from a biomass-fired power plant, but it can also come from greenhouses or data centers." Most of it still from coal and gas-fired cogeneration though.

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    Dec 27

    Unprecedented, there's that word again. This time from NE Brazil, where up to 500 mm of rain fell in 4 days:

    the state of Bahia has 58 cities going through extreme floods, just after trying to recover from the damage made by torrential rain 15 days ago. thousands are homeless, hundreds are injured and many are dead. this is unprecedented in recent history.
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  16. 15 hours ago

    There's a sense of relief in Europe as natural gas prices climbed down from their highest point, thanks to mild weather and LNG coming in. But 105 €/MWh is 6 times the price a year ago, and futures prices are now around 90 €/MWh for all of 2022. This will hurt.

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  17. 16 hours ago

    I didn't realize this. Since 2015, France's nuclear power production went down by 3 times as much as Germany's. [France could get back on track if its major maintenance operation is successful, I'd say]

    Germany gets bum rap. Electricity generation from coal in Germany dropped nearly 40TWh in 2020. And while nuclear generation in 2020 fell 11 TWh in Germany, it fell 44 TWh in France (17 TWh in Sweden). Since 2015, nuclear generation fell 28 TWh in Germany, but 82 TWh in France.
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    18 hours ago

    Exact that. There's almost complete silence in engaging consumers with consumption reduction despite the unheard of prices. No idea why that is. Trying to keep bad news away?

    3. Contingency planning is for a situation in which a physical gas shortage arises, but isn't this too late? Isn't it sensible to call on users before that to use less gas wherever possible?
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  19. 19 hours ago

    Good afternoon!

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  20. 23 hours ago

    Today's filling level of Europe's gas storages: 56% Highest: Poland and UK 87%, Italy and Portugal 77% Lowest: Austria 34%, Netherlands 36%, Slovakia 47%

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  21. Dec 27

    Middle of the winter in the Netherlands: four consecutive days with 13⁰C (55F). Ok, it saves a lot of natural gas.

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