Chatgpt generated illustration showing how transmission buffering batteries store excess solar generation and release it later through the same transmission line.
Buffering batteries placed near transmission constraints are rarely listed among grid enhancing technologies. The usual list includes advanced conductors, dynamic line rating, and power flow control devices. All of those technologies increase the instantaneous capacity of transmission lines. Batteries do not do that. A battery cannot turn a 500 MW … [continued]
There’s been some buzz in the past few days about Tesla sales rising in Germany, after much press in the past year or two on declining sales there and in Europe more broadly — and across the world even more broadly. One could say that, yes, Tesla sales rose in … [continued]
Chatgpt generated image of a hydrogen refueling station illustrating the infrastructure built ahead of demand.
Someone recently pointed me at a chart published by H2 Mobility that shows hydrogen dispensed per month across its German refueling network climbing steadily over time. The chart is visually persuasive. The blue area rises from near zero in 2017 to roughly 59 tons per month in early 2026. It … [continued]
There has been much good news about electric vehicle charging recently, ranging from 8,000 new EV chargers to be installed in Canada and 10,000 planned for the UK. Now comes even more: 12,000 fast charging ports (400 kW) for Germany, and in just the next four years. German energy company … [continued]
At a time when various automakers are struggling to meet their EV sales targets (including EV giant Tesla itself, which just can’t find a way to return to sales growth), Volvo Cars has a big hit on its hands and is actually expanding production as a result. Naturally, the bulk … [continued]
A union vote at the Tesla Gigafactory in Germany this week could determine the future of the company and the brand in Europe.
Aberdeen’s hydrogen double decker buses are being withdrawn, and a German municipality was left with seven hydrogen garbage trucks that could not refuel. Paris saw Hype’s hydrogen taxi fleet collapse after years of public claims about scale. Liverpool is trying to convert its abandoned hydrogen bus fleet. More hydrogen fleets … [continued]
Doing the math on Aberdeen’s abandonment of hydrogen buses led to a question from someone living in Düren, Germany about their hydrogen program. On the surface the situations look different. Aberdeen was a city trying to build a hydrogen ecosystem largely on its own. Düren, a district of about 270,000 … [continued]
Transport & Environment’s latest European city bus market report glossed in an article in CleanTechnica caught my attention for a reason that may not be obvious at first glance. Battery-electric buses now dominate new city bus registrations across the EU, and vastly ahead of schedule. That is the headline, and … [continued]
ChatGPT generated: Comparison of useful energy cost multipliers in Germany showing hydrogen and RFNBO fuels as structural multiples of electrification for freight and heating
The German Bundesrat’s recent plea to Brussels to double green hydrogen-based fuel quotas is less a bid to accelerate decarbonization than a request to manufacture demand for an infrastructure program that never made economic sense and had weak demand signals from the start. The upper chamber’s proposal to increase mandated … [continued]
