My article on "Texas and Germany: Energy Twins?" has been picked up by The Globalist, a world affairs news site. You can read it here.
The benefit is that it is much shorter than the version in POWER Magazine, and with fewer pesky graphics. Enjoy.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Going Globalist
My article on "Texas and Germany: Energy Twins?" has been picked up by The Globalist, a world affairs news site. You can read it here.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Tracking the Energiewende
The good wonks at Agora Energiewende, the think tank in Berlin devoted to the German energy transition, have introduced new tools to track the German energy system.
The new "Agorameter" tracks electricity production hourly by fuel source, wholesale prices, and imports and exports. It is currently all in German, but easy enough to understand once you remember a few key words and colors.
For starters, Kraftwerk is not only an awesome band from the 1970s, it also means "power plant." Strom is electricity, and Strompreis is the price of electricity. Stromerzeugung and stromverbrauch means power production and consumption.
For renewables: Wind and solar are the same in English, biomasse is what I like to call biopower, and laufwasser is hydropower.
The conventional fuels are gas, nuclear (kernenergie) and two types of coal, both aptly named: lignite they call braunkohle; sub-bituminous, or black coal, is called steinkohle, which I like to pronounce "stink-hole."
Pumped storage hydro is pumpspeicher und speicherwasser.
The graphic embedded here shows power production for the last couple of days, with conventional Kraftwerk in gray, wind in blue, solar in yellow, and biomass and hydro running flat on the bottom in green and blue.
Click on it to go to the Agora website for more detailed information on prices and exports.
The new "Agorameter" tracks electricity production hourly by fuel source, wholesale prices, and imports and exports. It is currently all in German, but easy enough to understand once you remember a few key words and colors.
For starters, Kraftwerk is not only an awesome band from the 1970s, it also means "power plant." Strom is electricity, and Strompreis is the price of electricity. Stromerzeugung and stromverbrauch means power production and consumption.
For renewables: Wind and solar are the same in English, biomasse is what I like to call biopower, and laufwasser is hydropower.
The conventional fuels are gas, nuclear (kernenergie) and two types of coal, both aptly named: lignite they call braunkohle; sub-bituminous, or black coal, is called steinkohle, which I like to pronounce "stink-hole."
Pumped storage hydro is pumpspeicher und speicherwasser.
The graphic embedded here shows power production for the last couple of days, with conventional Kraftwerk in gray, wind in blue, solar in yellow, and biomass and hydro running flat on the bottom in green and blue.
Click on it to go to the Agora website for more detailed information on prices and exports.
Then everybody dance with Kraftwerk!
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