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Advances in Energy System Optimization: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization Editors: Valentin Bertsch @Armin Ardone Dr. Michael Suriyah @Wolf Fichtner @Thomas Leibfried Vincent Heuveline This volume on Advances in Energy System Optimization contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers related to the 2nd International Symposium on Energy System Optimization (ISESO 2018). The symposium was held at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) under the symposium theme “Bridging the Gap Between Mathematical Modelling and Policy Support” on October 10–11, 2018. The papers in this volume are broadly structured according to the sessions within the symposium as outlined below: 1️⃣• Optimal Power Flow 2️⃣• Energy System Integration 3️⃣• Demand Response 4️⃣• Planning and Operation of Distribution Grids. Full document attached below⏬⏬⏬ Follow Integrated Africa Power (IAP) for more updates. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Birkhäuser #Openaccess

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The recent conclusion of the AO5 Sud de la Bretagne tender signifies a significant step in commercialising floating offshore wind technology. The consortium of BayWa from Germany and Elicio from Belgium secured victory with an impressive bid of EUR 86.45/MWh for the 270 MW Pennavel project. In addition to showcasing diverse approaches to costs and turbine sizing, the tender highlights significant advancements in offshore wind sustainability. Four out of six candidates opted for semi-submersible steel foundations, with the winning bid using semi-submersible concrete technology. Candidates committed to reduce emissions during construction and operations, while emphasizing high recycling levels across blades, towers, and foundations. Despite divergent views on pricing and turbine rating within the offshore wind sector, AO5 represents a crucial step forward in the adoption of floating technology. It addresses the industry's catch-22, where governments seek lower prices before tendering capacity, while developers aim for higher volumes to reduce costs. By offering valuable insights and potential solutions for future tenders, AO5 demonstrates the sector's dedication to innovation and sustainability, reaffirming its commitment to progress.

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The world's largest sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS), located in China, has initiated its first phase with a capacity of 50MW/100MWh. Sodium-ion technology is increasingly recognised as a promising alternative to lithium-ion. Its similarity in design allows for easier integration into existing lithium-ion production lines, potentially alleviating supply chain constraints. Despite sodium-ion batteries having lower energy density and higher initial costs compared to lithium-ion, projections suggest they could become 15-30% cheaper by 2025, according to BYD. Technically, sodium-ion batteries offer advantages such as improved round-trip efficiency (RTE) and longer cycle lifetimes in extreme temperatures, as highlighted by HiNa Battery. They also exhibit superior performance in durability tests like acupuncture and impact resistance. China's significant investment in sodium-ion technology stems from concerns about potential future limitations in the lithium supply chain, where China currently holds dominance in manufacturing and refining. However, with only 6% of the world's lithium reserves, China sees sodium-ion batteries as a viable alternative given its abundant reserves of minerals necessary for their production. https://lnkd.in/g9pQR9bd

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New report alert: EIC Scaling Club has released a new market roadmap for the Renewable Energies sector. Europe is positioning itself as a leader in renewable energy innovation, with a diverse range of technologies – from ocean and wave power to deep geothermal energy – showing high growth potential. At the same time, critical hurdles are significantly hindering the rate of innovation deployment. These include: ⚪The ongoing lack of regulatory harmonization and system interoperability across Europe ⚪Access to funding and skilled talent ⚪The looming shadow of international competition from North American scaleups and Chinese corporations ⚪And more The report offers a snapshot of the stakeholder members' vision and insights on the state of the Smart Mobility market in Europe and is designed to help professionals and entrepreneurs in particular to grasp meaningful insights to build their scaling strategy. To learn more about the methodology and participants, as well as deep dive into a trove of further market insights and details, view the report – link in the comments. A huge thank you to the authors and mentors who contributed: Alizée Blanchin Lucas MAURICE Emma Carnus Isabel Rayo Marian Gazdik Laurent Lelait Alberto Toril Castro Yannick Peysson Boris Cvacho Nicoletta Zappatini Aikaterini Liakopoulou Bernd Wacker Cesar Gimeno Primoz Kunaver Valerie Anne Lencznar Yi Jean Chow Timur Topalgoekceli Constantinos Peonides Julie Drapier #greenenergies #europe #entrepreneurship #EIC #EICScalingClub #marketreport

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🌍 H2med project launches Call for Interest — Europe’s first hydrogen corridor aims to connect Iberia with North-West Europe by 2030. 🔗 5 major TSOs — Enagás, GRTgaz, OGE, REN, Teréga — are assessing renewable hydrogen needs along the corridor until 2050. From November 7 to December 18, stakeholders can submit insights on consumption, production, and market dynamics. ⚙️ Goal: Shape optimal hydrogen infrastructure for Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany with local needs in mind. 🌐 Transnational project spans €2.5B, with key links between Portugal-Spain (CelZa) and Spain-France (BarMar). 📅 Expected: Results shared by Q1 2025. #Hydrogen #RenewableEnergy #Decarbonization #EnergyTransition #SustainableFuture

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Negative power prices have been a huge topic in European power markets this year, as the number of negative price hours has surged in many markets. Our French power markets team has pulled together a public report on this available on link below. Key drivers of negative prices are: - Strong growth in renewables deployment - High renewables generation in some months (this was a strong driver in I Paris in Spring) - Inflexibilities in the system eg nuclear in France, coal in Poland and Germany - Low power demand, partly linked to weak industrial demand - France in particular ‘imports’ negative prices from neighbouring markets in periods of oversupply.

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This is great progress for lower carbon energy in France.

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Earlier this year, Blunomy was pleased to participate to the publication of a ‘State of the Art’ report on green gas technologies in collaboration with GRDF and numerous experts from the relevant sectors. You can find the English version of the report here: https://lnkd.in/emv9Jgvx This week’s brief will discuss how these emerging alternative processes could significantly boost green gas production to meet a significant part of our gas demand. You can find the briefs here: https://lnkd.in/eJ-J3NWD Here are some key insights from this week’s publication: ▪ Renewable methane has surged thanks to anaerobic digestion, but other pathways will contribute boosting green gas production. ▪ Anaerobic digestion is mature and is the focus of continuous improvement efforts to increase global efficiency and the ability to use even more types of feedstock. ▪ Promising alternative production pathways are seeing an acceleration in their scale-up and R&D efforts. ▪ Understanding the transformations underway is crucial in order for players to deploy the right strategic responses. ▪ Combining a blend of technical and strategic expertise, Blunomy supports players across the biomethane value chain in identifying and unlocking new opportunities. #greengas #energytransition #biomethane #biogas

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☀ In a heatwave-struck Rome, HyPEF partners met up for the project’s first General Assembly to touch base on the progress of the project’s activities. 🔎 The discussion around one of HyPEF’s core tasks - the selection of hydrogen product categories (and sub-categories) for which to write up the (first ever) Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules - took centre stage. An extensive brainstorming session offered multiple insights on which criteria to use for the selection of categories to ensure HyPEF's picks: ✅ meet the Clean Hydrogen Partnership's expectations, 🎯 are representatives of likely routes and technologies for the future deployment of clean #hydrogen, 👍 support the qualification of hydrogen products as a sustainable investment! Other hot topics of the meeting included: 🔹Updates on the newly constituted Advisory Working Group 🔹Future stakeholder engagement activities to validate HyPEF’s methodological research 🔹Upcoming communication and dissemination actions to enhance visibility of the project’s methodological advancements in #LCA and benchmarking of hydrogen-related products. 👏 Well done IMDEA Energy | ISINNOVA - Research Innovation Sustainability | EIFER - European Institute for Energy Research | ENEA | Ecoinnovazione srl - spin off ENEA | ENGIE | Hexagon Purus | Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc.| for a productive meeting! 🙏 Thank you Advisory Working Group members Alessandro Arrigoni (JRC - European Commission), Annabelle Brisse & Luiz Paulo Sales (Hynamics), and Diana Barbu (Hydrogen Europe) for attending online and confirming your availability to support HyPEF’s research with your expertise. 😎 A big GRAZIE to Alessandro Agostini and Claudio Carbone from ENEA for hosting us on the banks of the Tiber and to the "locals" from ISINNOVA - Research Innovation Sustainability - Giorgia Galvini, Stefano Proietti, Valentina Malcotti, and Danilo Zaini - for the Roman food experience🍝

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I regularly get questions about electricity production in belgium and surrounding countries and the associated CO2 emissions.  This is a very interesting website with lots of figures and a nice visual representation of where and how electricity is produced and transported in Europe. https://lnkd.in/ejXTYFZF

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📢 New paper is out! Abstract: Nowadays, energy and power companies compete to get the raw materials and equipment they need on time, as project times lengthen, costs spiral, stock-out continues to plague plans to a decarbonized energy future. The risks reflect the impact of uncertainty and volatility on the resilience of the supply chains. Therefore, there is a need for the enhancement of the production planning in Energy Supply Chains (ESCs), as it enables affordable energy supplies and supports the companies transition to a clean, secure and sustainable energy mix. This study aims to understand the interactive behavior among individuals and optimize their production planning under uncertainty scenarios. In particular, we propose a novel framework to couple an Agent-based Modelling (ABM) and a Co-evolutionary Algorithm (CEA), to realize its capacity to solve a Many-objective Optimization Problem (MaOP) where the profits of multiple agents are concurrently maximized in their interactive transaction processes under normal conditions and uncertain disruption events. For demonstration, we illustrate the proposed approach by considering a five-layer oil and gas ESC model, where uncertainties from multiple sources and the structural dynamics challenge the balance between supply and demand. The results obtained by an integration of a Cooperative Co-evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimizer (CCPSO) algorithm into ABM show the pricing and orders of the target agents are optimized while the loss of ESC resilience is minimized under uncertainty scenarios, proving its capacity of improving the diversity and the convergence, compared to the classic evolutionary algorithms. Available online: https://lnkd.in/dUqKvtDB #EnergySupplyChain #ProductionPlanning #Uncertainty #MultiobjectiveOptimizationProblem #AgentbasedModeling #CoevolutionaryAlgorithm

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A nice article about increase in share of clean energy in Europes's power mix and the role of #hvdc and related #powercable demand.

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Needed: Cumulative Impact Studies of the Combined Offshore Wind Monster https://lnkd.in/e2FrarBE #OffshoreWind #Wind #CumulativeImpact #Whales #NOAA

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The rapid #decarbonization of the global electricity systems is driving a steep rise in requests to interconnect new clean energy generation resources like solar, wind, and battery storage to the transmission system. This is particularly pertinent if there is a #roadmap identifying a #netcarbonzero path, and it has to be reached by 2050, that is enshrined in the legislature. When the 2035 grid based #solarelectricity need is 70GW or more in the #UK and the current annual additions is closer to 1GW ... it does not take much addition to realise a major boost in solar electricity supply is required in the next decade. This is why the #solartaskforce was set up and we look forward to its contributions ... Now in the US ,,, the story appears to be very different .... The Transmission Interconnection Roadmap (PDF) published in April 2024 identifies solutions to enable interconnection processes to meet the growing demand for renewable energy resources from the rapid, widespread clean energy transition. Produced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X), this roadmap provides the diverse group of interconnection stakeholders with near- to long-term solutions to address current challenges in transmission system interconnection. https://lnkd.in/eSBPaXVC

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🔍 Spotlight on Europe's Energy Future: New Climate Risk Study Our recent collaboration with Guidehouse reveals critical insights for Europe's power sector: 🔥Heat waves: A game-changer for plant operations by 2060 💧Precipitation extremes: Reshaping infrastructure needs 🌎 Regional disparity: Southern Europe in the climate crosshairs These findings emphasize the need for forward-thinking risk management in energy infrastructure. Curious about the implications for your assets? Explore the in-depth analysis: https://lnkd.in/gFbJkemd #ClimateAdaptation #EnergyResilience #RiskManagement #ClimateRisk #EnergyInfrastructure #ClimateResilience #SustainableEnergy #Sustainability #CSRD #JupiterIntelligence

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Cogeneration has a key role to play in delivering the EU’s decarbonisation plan (Press Release - 17 June 2024) Today, Environment Ministers from the 27 EU Member States met in Brussels, where they discussed the European Commission's communication on Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050, which recommends reducing the EU’s net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 relative to 1990. Below is a statement by COGEN Europe’s Managing Director, Hans Korteweg. "COGEN Europe welcomes today’s Environment Council discussion on Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality. In this context, we wish to underline that #cogeneration has a key role to play in delivering the EU’s #decarbonisation plan, addressing systemic challenges relating to flexibility and adequacy, and making the most efficient use of precious energy sources such as renewable #biogas, #biomethane and clean #hydrogen. "The EU must now ensure a level playing field for clean energy solutions and support the necessary innovation and investments in order to reach the ambitious emissions reduction targets that have been agreed, whilst also fostering the #competitiveness of Europe’s industries. A balanced and integrated policy is needed at European level, in order to support investments in energy efficient solutions and secure affordable access to clean energy.  "The implementation of the 2040 target and plan will require a comprehensive impact assessment, looking at all energy efficient, flexible and renewable solutions, including cogeneration, and their contribution towards reducing emissions and enhancing the EU’s industrial competitiveness, as well as the affordability and resilience of the entire energy system.  "Currently, cogeneration is embedded in Europe’s economy and communities, across district heating and key industries such as chemicals, pulp and paper, alumina, food processing and ceramics. In the future, smart and innovative #CHP* will continue to play a vital role for industrial competitiveness, system efficiency and resiliency across increasingly integrated carbon neutral energy systems, complementing intermittent #renewables such as wind and solar (PV), and supporting #electrification." * CHP (Combined Heat and Power) is another name for cogeneration For further information, see COGEN Europe’s contribution to the European Commission’s Consultation on an EU climate target for 2040 (23 June 2023) ➡ https://bit.ly/PP-230623

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Evaluation Of Damage Performance In Offshore Floating Photovoltaics-Based Hydrogen Production System Due To Potential Hydrogen Release

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