To address the monumental task of moving the world towards a zero-emission, safe, resilient, and affordable energy system, all hands must be on deck. Just back from a long vacation I attended an interesting event. On July 25 in San Ramon, California PG&E presented their newest R&D Strategy to a group of more than 1,500 …
A. The Story of Smog and the Catalytic Converter in CA The first episodes of ‘smog’ occurred in Los Angeles in the summer of 1943 and it got so bad that it was outright dangerous to your health to be outside when the bad smog events occurred. CA then in 1966 established the first tailpipe emissions …
Capacity factor is defined as (using Wiki instead of the long and winding explanation from ChatGPT): “The ratio of the electrical energy produced by a generating unit for the period of time considered to the electrical energy that could have been produced at continuous full power operation during the same period.” The capacity factors for …
Let’s Take a Look at the Capacity Factor for EV Batteries Read More »
Lately, there has been much focus on new shining objects like AI(ChatGPT), PtX, hydrogen, energy islands, and the massive European expansion of offshore wind. However, we should not turn our attention away from the fact that: There will be 1+ million EVs on the roads in Denmark by 2030. It will require heavy lifting and …
Is Denmark Prepared for V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything)? Read More »
My latest educational posts dealt with grid services in the Nordic Synchronous Area: – FCR-D – A Dream V2G Service? – FCR-N – The Tough V2G Service. This – my last post in this series – deals with FFR – Fast Frequency Regulation. It poses the question: Could it be a “V2G service”? From Energinet (Danish …
