David Hunter

Director of Market Studies @ Schneider Electric Sustainability Business. Views my own, RTs not endorsements.

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

All I want for Christmas is a new max #Wind generation record 🎅🎄

Today (21 December), wind generated a new high of 21.8GW electricity ⚡ between 8:00-8:30, providing 56% of the generation mix. This breaks the previous record set in January.

We are still waiting for all the data to come through, so this figure might be adjusted slightly.

[Schneider Electric @SchneiderUKI]

What do we mean by the "energy price cap" and what does it mean for households and businesses? @davidhschneider, Director of Market Studies at #SchneiderElec discusses all with @BBCLauraMac from @BBCRadioScot [12.26-20.10] - https://t.co/gQ0Y8q6TrE

#Sustainability

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Average global temperatures per year since 1880 until 2023

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

In the midst of an energy price crisis, this may seem rather strange, but rampant solar generation at the weekend caused European power prices to go strongly negative - as low as -€500/MWh in Germany at one point.

Negative prices…https://t.co/AfqnXG7D5m https://t.co/wbQ07cJJxL

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

CHINESE SOLAR: Chinese installed capacity from the sun is growing rapidly, and last year reached around the equivalent of 8 TIMES the total peak electricity demand of the UK.

Total wind & solar capacity there is planned to hit 1,200 GW by 2025. Exceptio…https://t.co/TORiQPqrYW

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

Despite the very significant and growing installed capacity UK wind generation right now is delivering only 2.4% of our electricity demand. It's sunny, so 14% is coming from solar - but gas is picking up the slack, with 52%.

The energy transition is bot…https://t.co/845Bv5uGLQ

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

@robflett Stunning, Rob

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

CHINA COAL: How depressing. Coal power in China is still increasing in absolute, if not proportional, terms.

With 100 new coal plants planned to be built, the only bright spot is that these may end up being loss-making, stranded assets - Reuters specula…https://t.co/tJ2yAH8BYV

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

LOW CARBON GENERATION: Renewables currently generating 62% of UK electricity - with 51% coming from wind (~18 GW).

In total, 80% of demand is being met by low carbon sources (adding nuclear & French imports).

All this results in a very low carbon intens…https://t.co/tPFHb2a3ug

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

UK ENERGY IMPORTS TOP £100 BILLION: A wake-up call for those unsure about the need to produce our own energy to reduce dependence on imports...

We need to accelerate investment in renewables, nuclear, hydrogen, and energy storage.…https://t.co/xjUF0nEEVP https://t.co/WcfqS7xcuO

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

The ESO has issued an additional notification that we will warm four of our five winter contingency coal units for potential use on Tuesday 7 March.

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

On Sunday #wind produced 49.4% of British electricity, more than nuclear 15.7%, gas 15.4%, imports 10.4%, biomass 4.3%, coal 2.0%, hydro 1.6%, solar 1.1%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

EUROPEAN GAS PRICES / STORAGE: The weather gods continue to be kind to Europe as temperatures are set to rise next week, alleviating pressure on storage levels, already at the top of their 10 year range.

Storage levels and benign…https://t.co/RUhq8XOreQ https://t.co/z1UhTM7kCK

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

As part of cautious measures to ensure we continue to have adequate operational reserves tomorrow evening the ESO has activated the Demand Flexibility Service for Tuesday evening between 4:30pm-6pm.

[Jean-Pascal Tricoire @jptricoire]

12 years in a row! @SchneiderElec has once again been named one of the World’s Most Sustainable Corporations by @corporateknight, ranking #1 in our peer group. Thank you to all our stakeholders for coming on this journey with us.

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

Yesterday #wind produced 53.7% of GB electricity followed by nuclear 15.3%, gas 11.2%, imports 9.8%, biomass 5.2%, hydro 2.9%, coal 1.8%, solar 0.2%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

Yesterday #wind produced 56.1% of British electricity followed by nuclear 16.3%, gas 11.2%, imports 8.7%, hydro 3.2%, biomass 2.8%, coal 0.9%, solar 0.8%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

US total oil exports (crude + refined products) surged last week to a fresh all-time high, reaching almost 11.8m b/d. The export boom has triggered a large drop in domestic commercial inventories. The US remains the barrel of last resort to the global economy | #OOTT

[David Hunter @davidhschneider]

@SamGhib @bryanadams Despite it being co-written by genius rock producer Mutt Lange, I agree - along with Love Is All Around, overplayed would be an understatement.

And I thought my first job was cool - John Menzies 'record department', Inverness... ;-)

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

Yesterday #wind generated 51.0% of GB electricity, more than gas 20.9%, nuclear 15.9%, imports 5.6%, hydro 2.4%, biomass 2.2%, solar 1.8%, coal 0.1%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation