Two days left in “later this month” and nothing in the news so far.

There was an EU energy summit in early February. I see nothing on line about one in March.

Pons and Fleishman ring a bell with anyone?

Yes, it really is a reality!

According to Andrea Rossi and his Energy Catalyzer, which he presented to a closed group in Italy, January 15th, despite lack of theoretical knowledge, the results of one unit in and twenty units out, is outstanding.

Links to http://www.lenr-canr.org, http://www.peswiki.com, http://www.nyteknik.com, http://www.talefta.blogspot.com, journal-of-nuclear-science.com are a good start to read up.

Official comments can be obtained.

That really changes the argument used here against wind, that we shouldn’t add any because it “has to be exported.”
(Watch the argument change to “fossil fuel is the real money-maker as it can be consistently exported” !!)

Denmark’s Energy Plan 2025•Foresees stabilisation of energy consumption•Increasing renewable contribution to 30% of demand–Across all sectors•A high fraction of renewable energy will be wind power that is intendeddisplace imported coal and gas in the electricity sector•Wind generated hydrogen used in transport can displace oilSuccessful implementation will demand new thinking and new techniques.

West Denmark has the World’s highest wind capacity, kW per capita

•West Denmark0.88 kW
•Ireland (end 2006)0.34 kW
•Spain0.34kW
•Germany0.22 kW

Measures announced are consumer-friendly

•East –West inter-connector will deliver up to 600 MW more wind power to East Denmark
–Which has less wind capacity because it blows less
•Use of over-flow electricity to provide district heating
–Will save fuel and CO2emissions
•Demand will be encouraged at periods of high wind output…
–…by demand-side pricing
–…saving fossil generation and/or imports across the inter-connectors.

EveryMWh of Danish wind power is subsidized by the Danish consumer…
•Wind energy that is exported at a low spot price exports both subsidy ANDCO2emission reductions directly to Norwegian, Swedish and German consumers
•…whereas every MWh of wind energy consumed insideDenmark ”returns the subsidy to the consumer”, saves fuel imports and really reduces Danish CO2emissions(Source:.incoteco,VRB Power Systems).

Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
Wind Energy Expert
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

Re hydro fluctuations and exports: there are at least two separate things going on, at different timescales – please allow me to distinguish them.

1) At the minute-by-minute level, Denmark exports its variations in wind, but even more so it exports its variations in demand, to its neighbours who, as Bill Woods says, can turn their hydro up and down quickly.

2) At the year-by-year level, when Norway/Sweden/Finland have had a dry year, then they import a lot of power, including from Denmark – so Denmark’s electricity exports have a large spike lasting many months, driven by the higher prices from their neighbours. These exports come from thermal plant (biomass, coal, gas) that runs higher and longer because it’s profitable for them to do so.

Being part of a larger system is a very good way to integrate lots of renewables: wider geographic dispersion smooths variability (see papers by Hannele Holttinen and Gregor Czisch for details). ISTM that the Tres Amigas project is a key element in American energy security, for this very reason. Each new interconnector, contributes to the grid at each end of it becoming a small part of a larger grid. It’s one of the most economically efficient ways to deliver energy security, and the world will move increasingly towards (multi-)continental-scale grids.

I don’t agree with comparing a nation with just one (productive) county in Texas. It is more like countries in the EU are comparable with states in the US, where it is a bit easier to count production and consumption than in counties. The interconnections are not between between counties in Texas. That is how we can definitively say that Iowa produces 20% of its power from wind, that Texas makes more wind power than Germany, etc.

“[W]ind generation … balances variations in demand in neighboring countries, due to fluctuating hydro power in neighboring countries.”
This is confusing cause and effect. Hydro power fluctuates on command, to follow variability in wind power and demand.