Zoltán Marić

Energy Optimisation Engineer | Was one of the 25 guns at Tesla | posts represent my own personal views.

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Dear Internet,
I made this pretty pretty 🎀✨ map of the European power grid. Because the world needs more #gridporn.
👋

https://t.co/V0kIcL3ROw

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Najažurniji izvor koji sam našao za nestanak struje u Dalmaciji: https://t.co/gwzqP53T9c #hep #hops #cedis

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@dhh Teehee, I use "dark mode just at night" for my operating system and browser, but my IDE is in dark mode all the time, because that's the only cool way to code :)

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@BettiolLindsay @MLiebreich @MLCleaningUp @malvera1 @TES_H2 Specifically @MLiebreich calling out that this model abuses US tax money intended to get to net zero faster, only making money on subsidy arbitrage while shifting emissions from US to German soil - to which @malvera1's answer is a very dishonest "we have to try everything"

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@BettiolLindsay @MLiebreich @MLCleaningUp @malvera1 @TES_H2 Yeah, I strongly disagree with the impression that @malvera1 "held his own" here. I listened to the podcast long after it got published, and the amount of dishonesty from Mr. Alverà in this episode inspired me to go out of my way looking it up on Twitter and calling it out.

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@MLCleaningUp @UndecidedMF @MLiebreich @MLiebreich I don't know if you just coined the term Nuancist in this podcast, but I'm sure ready to sign up to that cult 🙇

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@MLiebreich @MLCleaningUp @yanisvaroufakis In any case, thanks a lot for this episode - I also thought that *having* power markets was non-controversial (aside from marginal pricing), but it's good to be reminded that they're very complex and vulnerable to emotional politics.

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@MLiebreich @MLCleaningUp @yanisvaroufakis Also, on "innovation", it would have been worth clarifying that you were rather talking about implementation of innovation on a societal level like @g__j & @OctopusEnergy, and @yanisvaroufakis was talking about inventions (e.g. a student can code up time-of-use tariffs)

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@MLiebreich @MLCleaningUp @yanisvaroufakis Capitalism is bad because of profiteering, but it successfully abuses greed to motivate people to innovate and improve technology and resource use way faster than other systems. I would have liked an argument from @yanisvaroufakis on what would drive that in a centralised system.

[MaxParzen @maxparzen]

We just completed the rebranding of our #opendata and #opensource energy system modelling initiative. 🎉 Our new website: https://t.co/LO6hzH6u0y But why did we do that? Why did we extend the scope from Africa to the Earth?

#energytwitter @MacroEnergySys

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@gschivley Yeah, those 0/0 lines have been a thorn in my eye too, I'll have a look. You can change the tilt by right-click-dragging up or down on the map 🤓

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Dear Internet,
I made this pretty pretty 🎀✨ map of the European power grid. Because the world needs more #gridporn.
👋

https://t.co/V0kIcL3ROw

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Assuming future dynamic, location-based grid fees, it shows top candidate locations based on available excess renewable energy over a year at each substation, simulates the change in line loading with the added load using #PyPSA & @plotlygraphs, and suggests load shifting.

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

I'm happy to share that team Milkshake🧋won first prize in Challenge 3 (Visualising the impact of energy-intensive consumers on the grid) at #eliahack yesterday, and a big congrats to team Cozy, the winners of the cross-challenge first prize 🙌

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Team Milkshake🧋 is bringing some freshly baked #gridporn powered by #PyPSA to @eliacorporate's #eliahack pitch day tomorrow 🙌 🍭

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Team Milkshake🧋 is bringing some freshly baked #gridporn powered by #PyPSA to @eliacorporate's #eliahack pitch day tomorrow 🙌 🍭

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@ENTSO_E Did the live streaming just not start yet, or am I the only one who can't find where it is?

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@HighsOpt @nworbmot @TUBerlin @JesseJenkins Where can we read more about what you guys are celebrating? :)

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

I thought I was being clever with my little Copper Sushi 🍣, but just a week in, someone beat me at my own game 🙈🥹

https://t.co/V0kIcKMgWY

#coppersushi #gridporn #PyPSA #vegan

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@JavkhlanEnkhbo2 Yeah, #PyPSA is really great. I actually had the honour to meet Prof. Brown last week :) I didn't know about the open-source lectures though. That's very useful!

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

Copper Sushi 🍣 just got *even* prettier - showing high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links!

Connections in the model loaded 99%+ of capacity are shown in thick purple 🍇 Most HVDC links are 99%+, hence more 🍬🍭 for your 👀
https://t.co/V0kIcKMgWY

#coppersushi #PyPSA #gridporn

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@InfosReseaux @nworbmot Yes, I was referring to Nant de Drance. It's nice to get more insight on that, thanks! I'm hoping to hook in the fetching of actual capacity & pricing data from somewhere and then update the map daily. That's going to take me a while though.

[Zoltán Marić @zoltanmaric]

@Esmann_privat @PerviDarko Oh that's great to hear! I would love to hear more about all the kinds of conversations this map can support, so I can decide better what additional features I should focus on for the future 👀👂