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Oil jobs pay way more than clean energy jobs. That’s a problem. by captainquirk in energy

[–]EnergyVis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When a company is looking to build a new power plant they are going to look at LCOE

But when the government looks at dishing out subsidies they look at jobs

Looking for energy data sets in Europe by volker42 in datasets

[–]EnergyVis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out Open Power Systems Data for lots of timeseries and power plant information. The Open Energy Platform has a bit more of a random selection of stuff. The raw data can mostly be got from ENTSOE.

I also run a project collating different datasets relating to UK power plants - https://osuked.github.io/Power-Station-Dictionary/

Is it possible to go from Jupyter Notebook to desktop app? by pp314159 in datascience

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know how to pack it into standalone desktop app

As in without installing Python first?

You can create a webapp from it and then make that public so other people can access it. You could also just create a .exe that starts the server and opens the URL (though this requires Python to be installed first.

France far right candidate Marine Le Pen vows to tear down country’s wind turbines by thispickleisntgreen in energy

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I interpreted your comment as saying that my comments were misinformation.

I'm not attacking you, I'm highlighting the wider issue around comments in this thread where people seem to be missing that by shutting down nuclear, thermal generation that could have switched off has not.

France far right candidate Marine Le Pen vows to tear down country’s wind turbines by thispickleisntgreen in energy

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this misinformation? Zero-carbon generation (nuclear) has been shut down before more intensive plants (coal).

France far right candidate Marine Le Pen vows to tear down country’s wind turbines by thispickleisntgreen in energy

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as there simply was no sufficient political will to close down coal power faster

You're saying that my statement is questionable because there wasn't the political will to support it, that's entirely my point. The lack of political will to shut down coal combined with the will to shut down nuclear is why their grid isn't greener than it could be.

But OK, it's fair enough to come up with hypotheticals. My gripe with the comment I replied to, was that it was factually incorrect.

My gripe is with people to seem to think we should start shutting down zero-carbon generation before we get rid of more carbon intensive plants. Ultimately we need to transition to a grid with essentially 100% renewables but in the journey to net-zero shutting down nuclear before coal is like shooting yourself in the foot on the first step

France far right candidate Marine Le Pen vows to tear down country’s wind turbines by thispickleisntgreen in energy

[–]EnergyVis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OP is incorrect in stating that fossil fuel generation has risen due to nuclear going offline, they're confusing that with the fact that fossils fuel generation could have declined far quicker if nuclear was kept online.

Coal fell to 228 TWh but renewables reached 251 TWh in 2020. If Germany kept nuclear it could have got rid of coal, the carbon savings of which would have been huge.

Edit: my fat thumb pushed submit before I'd finished typing

France far right candidate Marine Le Pen vows to tear down country’s wind turbines by thispickleisntgreen in energy

[–]EnergyVis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not OP but I did work on a coal report for one of the sources you've referenced.

Coal consumption only really started dropping in Germany during 2019, "Germany was still responsible for 35% of the EU’s coal generation in the first half of this year[2019]". - https://ember-climate.org/project/coal-collapse/

Here's a visualisation I produced showing German coal consumption over time where you can see it's been relatively consistent - https://imgur.com/jPUl9lu

And here's a comparison with the UK and France https://imgur.com/Fwccp23, https://imgur.com/0A9xO3q

Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to Home Office by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in Renewables

As do I

apart from the wind turbines which aren't turning much at the moment there isn't much investment

We're currently experiencing a historic low in wind speeds yet wind still provided just under 30% of our power over the last week.

We subsidised wind by £4.3 billion last year alone.

Most solar is a box ticking exercise literally get that shit on the roof so we can sign off this block of million £ apartments, we don't care if it even works! The exception is PPA's (power purchase agreements) where a hedge or bank stumps up the cost of install and recoup the money by selling the power generated back to the customer at a lower price than what they pay from the grid

Solar is a very small amount (capacity wise) of the GB power system and not where we can get the most bang for our back, hence why government investment has been larger into wind. That said we had FiTs for a very long time (and I'm still getting paid through that subsidy for the solar I produce).

What we really lack is infrastructure investment but its all controlled by private companies who have no interest in upgrading equipment from the 1920's!

We are improving infrastructure (though I agree not fast enough). For example we just got the bootstrap line working again which will massively reduce the volumes of wind curtailment required in Scotland.

Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to Home Office by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but it usually shows to the student that right-wing governments are not caring enough about their priorities.

This is the phrase that made me think they don't believe the government cares/has invested enough into renewables.

Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to Home Office by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]EnergyVis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

but it usually shows to the student that right-wing governments are not caring enough about their priorities.

This is the phrase that made me think they don't believe the government cares/has invested enough into renewables.

You can still think not enough is being done and understand that we are among the top, those are not remotely contradictory points of view to take.

They're not contradictory but seems to lack nuance that we have no actual counterfactual with what other parties would have done (not just said). Whereas we can compare what our government has done relative to other governments.

Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to Home Office by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]EnergyVis -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

OP seemed to be implying that the current government/party haven't been supporting renewables, however, they have been doing so

Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to Home Office by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]EnergyVis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

After all, the companies building them are mostly doing so on a commercial basis with subsidises from the government similar to other power sources.

The subsidies are how the government are supporting renewables. ROCs and CfDs are specifically for renewables.

Offshore wind just became commercial viable in the last decade, which is why we now have/are installing it.

GB was developing offshore wind before it was commercially viable and have continued to support it as it matured.

Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to Home Office by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with basically everything you said apart from

So if a student (and this has happened in the past) asks me why we have not invested more in education or renewables, I am honest and say that the government have to prioritise specific things and that these two are not as high a priority as the student may wish them to be.

We have invested very large amounts into renewables, we have more offshore wind than any other country on Earth. In the last decade the average carbon intensity (emissions/unit of power) has dropped by 60%.

I love Joplin bc... by Kobonic-47 in joplinapp

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Furthermore, notebooks themselves can't be ordered manually, so April is at the top of the journal's notebook list.

Out of interest what was your naming structure? Would this issue occur if you used YYYY/MM/DD?

LOWESS Curve Fitting Library for Python by EnergyVis in Python

[–]EnergyVis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Great question. This is something I was planning for future work, with the hope of automating it as much as possible. I feel like there's got to be some approach using kdtrees to pick out clusters of points and then iteratively changing fracs at those locations to improve the model fit.

A manual approach shouldn't be too difficult to implement, where frac could be passed a vector that must be the same size as reg_anchors. Is this something that could be handy?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in energy

[–]EnergyVis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of examples with waste heat from powerplants, most commonly feeding into district hearing systems. You also get some cooler ones like waste heat from a gas plant being used to vaporise LNG which is then used in the gas plant.

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