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#energystorage via smart #battery systems is key for future sustainable #electrification. Paschalis, Dr. Papagrigoriou explains why, how and what we need to do to move faster forward. “Batterie-Energiespeicher: Europas Markt vor dem Durchbruch“ by Dr. Papagrigoriou, Pascal on Medium: https://lnkd.in/dy7cQN4g

Good news! "A total of 413 GWp new solar capacity in 2023! Bloomberg NEF expects growth of 58% again compared to the record year!" Now it's time to use the momentum in Africa to further accelerate the energy transformation. Because: We at EWIA Green Investments GmbH care about a sustainable energy supply for companies in Africa and the environment! We must use every single day to do something about climate change. At EWIA Green Investments GmbH, we do this by helping small and medium-sized enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa to obtain affordable and reliable green electricity. For our triple impact business model, we are still looking for investors to participate in our funding round on FunderNation until 6 December. Christmas campaign: Give the gift of the future 🎁 And because Christmas is just around the corner, you can not only invest in our future by investing in EWIA Green Investments, but also give your loved ones a piece of the future - for as little as €100. It's very simple: visit our company profile on FunderNation and click on "Gift an investment now". After completing your investment, you will receive a gift certificate by e-mail. There you can enter the name of the recipient and put the certificate nicely wrapped under the Christmas tree and make a real impact! Find out more here. Link: https://bit.ly/47Pk1Rb WE would therefore be delighted if you would also support us with our impact investments in Africa!

"The world needs a rapid transition to clean, renewable energy to address air pollution, climate, and energy security issues. Here, roadmaps to transition 145 countries to 100% clean, renewable WWSenergyandstorage across all energy sectors are developed. The full transition should occur no later than 2050, but ideally by 2035, with no less than 80% by 2030. Grid stability analyses are performed after the countries are divided into 24 world regions. No-load-loss solutions are found in all regions for the three-year period, 2050–2052. Costs are estimated, and sensitivity tests are performed to examine the impacts of several factors on them. Across 145 countries, a transition to 100% WWS reduces the annual base-case private energy cost by 62.7% (from $17.8 down to $6.6 trillion per year in 2020 USD) compared with BAU. This is due to 56.4% less end-use energy consumption and a 14.3% lower private cost per unit energy. WWS reduces the annual social energy cost (private cost plus health and climate costs) by 92% (from $83.2 to $6.6 trillion per year) because WWS eliminates health ($33.6 trillion per year) and climate ($31.8 trillion per year) costs along with reducing private energy costs. These results suggest a substantial private and social cost benefit of transitioning. The results are consistent with previous studies despite the new data and the differences in approach compared with those studies. Robustness across independent studies strengthens the case that a clean, renewable energy future is possible."

So true, maybe reality is catching up 🤔? Some quotes: “ Not only for German consumers, the green energy transition has so far turned out to be extremely expensive. In addition to Denmark, electricity costs nowhere in Europe as much as in this country.” “ The green transformation has not been a good deal for investors either so far. All German listed companies that are involved in the energy transition have destroyed a stock market value of a good 30 billion euros from the respective high in recent years.” “ Siemens Energy may also be a particularly blatant example of the values that the energy transition companies have sunk in recent years because of mismanagement. But other companies could not benefit from the fact that billions were invested in Germany's green conversion.” Losses in all ends, by consumers, investors and with no Trilemma solutions in sight. And the answer Ladies and Gentlemen is: More of the same 😖 What did Einstein say about repeating the same mistakes and expect another outcome?😇

🎤 I will be speaking at the VERBUND AG INSPIRE Energy Summit in Austria later this month and presenting some of our Aurora Energy Research analysis on the outlook for power sector flexibility and storage needs in the EU and Austria 📈! Looking forward to discussing key topics of the energy transition with stake holders and energy experts. https://lnkd.in/eZfxN4ME #energytransition #flexibility #storage #conference #energyanalysis

TAILWIND. I am looking forward to the documentary. Due to their outstanding properties, composites have become indispensable in the construction of wind turbines. However, various wastes and high energy consumption along the process chain offset the positive prerequisites of composites. Maintaining the energy and material value is the aim of paradigm-shifting advancements in composites recycling including wind turbines. Microwave chemistry has the potential to revolutionise wind turbine recycling and we at Microwave Solutions GmbH are excited to bring it's full potential into #CircularValley batch#5: ✅ selectively cutting and disassociating bonds and links through selective microwave excitation by creating molecular-level, energy induced differences in vibration and collision frequency allowing for selective depolymerisation - creating various monomers, oligomers and hydrocarbon products closing material loops and opening the next chapter of #MolecularRecycling ✅ recovery of high quality #carbonfibers and #glassfibers ✅ capturing CO2 and converting the carbon into nanomaterials such as graphite for batteries or graphene for next generation wind turbine blade composite materials ✅ ability to recycle entire wind-turbine blades avoiding shredding and sawing ✅ agile, modular and containerised systems operated on trucks, vessels or on-shore - avoiding transportation Connecting the energy transition and circular economy through bits & atoms deeptech. #composites #recycling #sustainability #windturbines

The future belongs to #directcurrent This was the headline of an article from November 2012 by Bernd Schöne in the daily newspaper Welt. Although the article was written almost twelve years ago, it is still highly relevant. Due to technological developments, but above all due to the political, economic and social developments of recent years, the topic of #directcurrent is more relevant than ever. If the German government's goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2045 is to be achieved, the generation of a large proportion of energy from green energy sources will be a basic requirement. And the establishment of direct current will play a decisive role in being able to utilise this generated energy so efficiently and sustainably. "In future, it will be very important to be able to adapt electricity demand to the current supply of renewable energy sources. This will require intelligent control and regulation technology. The DC buildings of the future are a component of the so-called smart grid of the electricity supply. By combining information and electrical technology, different energy sources and electricity consumers can be networked in such a way that both security of supply and a high proportion of renewable energy can be achieved." (Bernd Schöne, 2012, Die Zukunft gehört dem Gleichstrom, Welt) As a member of the Open DC Alliance (ODCA), Querom is part of an alliance of national and international companies that have set themselves the goal of helping to build an international DC ecosystem. Here you can find more information about the work of the ODCA: https://odca.zvei.org/ Let's work together towards a more sustainable world with DC. Querom Elektronik GmbH www.querom.de kontakt@querom.de #dcdc #odca #directcurrent #gleichstrom #querom #leistungselektronik

"The #solar #industry will be larger than the global #auto #industry by 2035." A statement made at the #IAA in #Germany today. Herbert Diess, ex Volkswagen Group CEO, wants to revive the #German and #European #Solarindustry with a consortium lead by non other then #China's JA Solar. In M&A terms one would speak of a #ReverseTakeover, I guess. Some may argue that this defies the purpose. BSW - Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft e.V. SolarPower Europe German Energy Agency (dena) Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action Claudia Kemfert Volker Quaschning Andreas Loeschel Agora Energiewende Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE https://lnkd.in/dQuiKmTX

In the context of the German “Kraftwerksstrategie” we answered the following questions in our H2-readiness study:   👉 Do we need new thermal power plants (in Germany) in the next 10 to 25 years? 👉 Do they need to be politically incentivised? 👉 Why can’t they be built as hydrogen power plants in the first place? 👉 Is there a H2-ready definition in European and German regulations? And what could be H2-ready in technical terms? 👉 What are the differences in the conversion of different power plant types from H2-ready to H2-capable. 👉 Does it have to be renewable (green) hydrogen or can we use blue hydrogen as well to reduce the GHG emissions? 👉 Does the planned hydrogen piping infrastructure (European Hydrogen Backbone) consider power plant sites as consumers? Here is the link to the english version of the study: https://lnkd.in/exweG86d

One more important milestone for the successful energy transition in Germany