Jenny Chase

@solar_chase

Solar analyst with BloombergNEF, goose keeper. Author of "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon". Opinions expressed are all my own. She/her.

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    Oct 16

    1. Time to make 2021 minor updates to my annual “opinions on ” thread. If you like these, you’ll like my 2019 book, Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, a little old but still valid, five stars on Amazon.

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    Dec 27

    “There’s always more than you think there will be.” More wit and wisdom from ’s career as an analyst in the first episode of , also with guests and .

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  3. Dec 27

    These storks cannot have come back from Africa yet, or even from Spain where they sometimes winter on rubbish tips. I reckon they have done the ultimate nobody-can-be-bothered-in-the-anthropocene move of wintering in Basel and eating out of dustbins.

    Two storks, a long way off in a field under grey skies. Taken in Wolfwil, Switzerland on December 27, 2021.
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  4. Dec 25

    Good news for Europe's energy crisis: it is currently warm enough on Christmas Day for small child to go out looking for beaver sign wearing sandals with no socks and an apron. (We found beaver sign, they are not subtle).

    A three year old child wearing a bicycle helmet, sandals with no socks and an apron saying "Audrey" stands with her father by a large river. They are looking at a half-submerged stump reputed to be a beaver home.
    A medium sized beech tree chunk, recently gnawed halfway through by a beaver.
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  5. Dec 21

    One of the things I genuinely like about this country is that it makes infrastructure decisions for the long term and generally with some concern for the collective good. (I will save disclosing the things I don't like about this country for *after* I get citizenship).

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  6. Dec 21

    I'm not an expert on this but it seems... ok? I'd rather Switzerland, where emissions reductions are expensive, spends money (a thing we have) to help these countries leapfrog to a similar good-infrastructure low-carbon economy rather than chasing hard reductions near-term.

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  7. Dec 21

    That said, apart from transport there aren't many obvious low hanging fruit for emissions reduction near-term, which is presumably why Switzerland plans to cooperate with Peru, Ghana, Senegal, Georgia, Vanuatu, and Dominica to meet net zero targets (ie, offsetting).

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  8. Dec 21

    Switzerland does do well to run a fully developed economy fairly cleanly. It helps to have fantastic hydroelectricity resources and an 80-year commitment to building housing to last and public transport infrastructure good enough for everyone.

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  9. Dec 21

    Surprised to learn from Switzerland's climate plan report that this country has "per capita CO2e emissions below world average" but this appears to be true, barely, by accepted methodologies. Energy industries just 7.3% of Swiss emissions (p.17). Link:

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  10. Dec 21

    Happy Winter Solstice, everyone in the northern hemisphere. Slowly, the daylight will come back.

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    Dec 20

    🎙️Ep64 : "Unstoppable Solar" With , we invite to discuss Merry Xmas! Talk to you in 2022

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  12. Dec 17

    Gas transport logistic problems and shortages, economic recovery and a poor wind year in Europe probably contributed to a record year of coal burn even though, as says here, "coal power will inevitably begin to decline soon".

    The world likely will generate more electricity from the dirtiest source this year than ever before, indicating just how far the energy transition still needs to run in the fight against climate change
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  13. Dec 16

    European energy crisis: is perfect storm of low wind, cold weather, low gas storage, nuclear outages My solar rooftop: is doing its best, but unfortunately it is December. My house made 3.61 kWh and used 55.39 kWh yesterday :S

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  14. Dec 16

    Oh I am LIKING the "obviously drawn on with marker pen" approach to covering the current European energy crisis. They get a follow just for that. (Yes it's probably a simplification! That's ok! We need to read more than tweets to be informed!)

    Cool overview of the underlying drivers of current price differentials across European countries.
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    Dec 15

    EUROPEAN ENERGY CRISIS: A map is worth a thousand words (and in case a few words are needed: that day-ahead electricity price is a record for Germany and much of the rest of Europe) |

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  16. Dec 15

    New podcast from and - the first episode guests are and me talking about why/ how "Energy Predictions are Hard".

    Promotional pictures for The Earthlings Podcast, hosts Lisa Ann Pinkerton and Christian Roselund, guests for first episode Jenny Chase of BNEF and Dr Anna Broughel for "Energy Predictions are Hard".
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  17. Dec 15

    It would make my life easier if Austria and Australia would also agree to have very similar size PV markets for the foreseeable future. (They don't).

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  18. Dec 15

    I have a figure of about 400MW for 2020 new PV installation in Sweden, and that appears to be about right, which is lucky because it's cited to a source about Switzerland :S

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    Dec 15

    🎙️Ep64: "Sol Invictus - unstoppable solar" invite to discuss latest trends. Thanks to !

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  20. Dec 14

    (I remain a bit unclear if this is only about movement of pallets within the U.S., probably due to not listening carefully enough. Do pallets get shipped back to Asia from Europe and the U.S.?)

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  21. Dec 14

    Often I don't find good content from my colleagues until a fantasy book author recommends it on Twitter. This is indeed a good podcast about pallets (7-8 year lifetime, many general purpose ones are rented cos they are expensive, are low-grade hardwood).

    The wood pallet episode of Odd Lots really juices my thinking about how we imagine fantastic fixes to ordinary problems, not ordinary ones.
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