Lance Atienza

Energy Analyst.
Mechanical Engineer.
Nuclear for the Youth,
Interest in Energy, Climate, Science, Economics, Politics.
Opinions are my own.

[Lance Atienza @lanceatienza_]

October 6, 2022 the Department of Energy Philippines @DOEgovph announced that all qualified and registered generating units utilizing renewable energy (RE) sources may now enjoy the option of preferential dispatch in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM).

[Lance Atienza @lanceatienza_]

#Energy

How does spot pricing works now with VREs in place then before where baseload power is the thing?

5min/30min?

The only thing I see is negative prices then expensive eletricity bills.

#energytwitter #EnergyTransition

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

That's nothing. Number of U.S. commercial nuclear meltdowns per year:

1980: 0
1981: 0
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[Mark Nelson @energybants]

I'm about to provide the closing comments for the first ever official COP Presidency session on the necessity of nuclear energy.

A session like this has never occurred before at COP.

This is a new era.

I'm ready. We're ready.

Let's make a better world.

[Ben Beattie @EnergyWrapAU]

Residential electricity bill in QLD (not mine).

Old rate: $0.33/kWh
New rate: $0.45/kWh

[Ben Beattie @EnergyWrapAU]

South Australia regularly meets 100% of its demand with wind and solar alone. So why does it have the highest retail prices in the country?

Because high penetration of intermittent generation costs more than baseload.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Amazing: Google partnered with American Airlines, used AI to tweak flight paths to reduce contrails.

The results are in, and if scaled up this could immediately reduce aviation's global warming impact by almost 20%

Technology just keeps beating degrowth! https://t.co/aRrqH6xGgU

[Zion Lights @ziontree]

AC is cool

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

"Renewable Germany vs unsustainable nuclear France"

Let's check in with the data:

[Rod Adams @Atomicrod]

China dislikes Japanese nuclear power

Note: This is similar Russia Today's reporting on nuclear matters in countries outside its borders
Not surprising
Global Times could have been named China Today
(It's a Chinese state-owned publication)
https://t.co/uVfrHHoDYi

[Meredith Angwin @MeredithAngwin]

Peakers Out, Batteries In? Cold water about batteries from the Energy Institute at Haas (U C Berkeley)
..."we should maybe not take it as a slamdunk that batteries are the right way to transition away from natural gas in all cases."
https://t.co/i0f1GWs23g via @energyathaas

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

PARIS: FRENCH MPS VOTE TO REMOVE NUCLEAR-CRUSHING LAW

In 2015 France passed a law limiting nuclear to 50% of national electricity supply by 2025.

In 2022 Europe was hammered by French nuclear dropping from 75% to 68% of supply

Breathtaking self-sabotage
https://t.co/en9g8ah3X0

[ESM2025 @esm2025_eu]

A year ago, researchers have proposed a new model for the land-to-ocean carbon fluxes that, for the 1st time, fully accounts for the contribution of 'blue carbon' ecosystems to the global carbon cycle, in its downstream short-range loop.

Want to know+?👉 https://t.co/dGspiGeL0O

[Ed Pheil @EdPheil]

@flexibledragnet Nuclear can also load follow, it does all the time in France and Ontario. It doesn't follow the jagged intermittency of solar and wind very well but that's not low following that's source following and damage caused by solar wind.

[Johnson Controls @johnsoncontrols]

Proud of our global team of innovators who advance our mission of building smarter, more sustainable buildings and helped us to be named one of the world’s most dynamic innovators by @LexisNexisIP in this year’s Innovation Momentum: The Global Top 100. https://t.co/OKYlUipSRA

[Brian Gitt @BrianGitt]

MYTH: Nuclear energy is dangerous.

Fact: Nuclear is the SAFEST way to generate clean power 24/7.

[Meredith Angwin @MeredithAngwin]

We are having a cold snap. It was minus 4 degrees F at night, but up to 14 when I took this screen shot of ISO-NE. Oil is back on the grid, and there isn't much wind.

[Dan Sideen @sideen_dan]

Remind me again how Germany thinks they can run an industrialized country on renewables?
It's early Sunday morning, with power requirements at their lowest level. No solar & wind at <16% of electricity

[Meredith Angwin @MeredithAngwin]

Oil rules the grid. Grid is stable. Around 6 am
In my town in Vermont, minus 14, wind only 5 mph, wind chill still below 25.

[Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX]

Astonishing intensity of cold smashing through Canada and Northeast USA right now.

Mt. Washington in New Hampshire just recorded a windchill value of -109°F (-78°C), which sets the lowest windchill value ever observed in the USA (including Alaska).

[chris keefer @Dr_Keefer]

Nuclear and Wind/solar - by Jack Devanney https://t.co/Ujlo6DV0Q9