Lowest subsidy of 0,37 €/kg was claimed by #RenGas project in Lahti, #Finland, producing 12kt H2 p.a. and combining with CO2 from nearby bioenergy plant to produce methane for traffic.
The waste heat from the H2/CH4 process is sold as #districtHeat which yields more proceeds (10M€ p.a.) than the subsidy (4M€ p.a.). The 60-90MW electrolyser can also bid in reserve market.
Yesterday #Fortum, the local heating utility in Espoo, Finland, has shut down their last remaining coal plant at #Suomenoja.
One year ahead of schedule.
Climbing the #EnergyAccess ladder at a Finnish #offgrid summer cottage:
The first PV panel 15yrs ago was 40W and ok for phone charging and 2 LEDs (tier 1)
The current 160W panel has been ok for using a laptop for several hours a day (tier 2)
Now I brought two additional 400W panels in order to power a fridge (tier 3).
A new battery might not be necessary if I keep the thermal mass inside the fridge high with water bottles etc and install one of the new panels towards east and one west.
The average turnkey price of a typical 7 kWp household #rooftop#solar system in #Finland has dropped to 7.700 €, as demand slowed down and there are no more shortages in component supply or skilled installation personnel.
Households can also apply for a 40% tax rebate on the installation work, which probably brings the total cost to below 1 €/Wp.
Demand for batteries and DSM automation exceeds expectations. There is no feed-in tariff so consumers try to avoid feed-in. https://yle.fi/a/74-20079845
@osma@burger_jaap Your claim was that the most likely times of excess solar energy are those with lowest spot prices. I was expecting more empirical data to support that claim.
This might be a nice place for my next #SolarPower installation. South facing barn roof, almost no shading. Easily fits 10kWp. It would mostly feed to grid as the farm itself has very low power demand.
Just 5 km behind those birches in the background is #Russia, where 70% of Finnish primary energy used to come from. This could be my tiny contribution for #independence.
Yesterday 26.3.2024 was a bad day for #windPower in #Finland. With over 6.000 MW total installed capacity, net generation was negative by about 20 MW for a few hours around noon.
In the evening winds increased and at the moment wind is the largest source of power providing over 3.000 MW, covering more than a third of total domestic generation. https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market/power-system/
The share of #Spotpriced electricity in households in Finland has quickly increased to one third (red line in graph below). This allows households to participate in #demandSideManagement thus improving grid balancing and integration of more wind power. The introduction of 15-minute resolution in spot pricings also helps. https://yle.fi/a/74-20077503
New #Fingrid CEO Asta Sihvonen-Punkka:
Today Finland has five 400kV #Transmission lines between windy north and consumers in south. In 10 years it will be eleven. #Uusiutua2024
This new 11 MW(th) Air-Water #HeatPump in Vermo, Espoo is the largest of it's kind in #Finland and a first step to 100MW Air-Source HPs on the #Fortum#DistrictHeating network in Espoo, Kauniainen and Kirkkonummi.
It was built last year next to a 160 MW oil-fired peak boiler. This week temperatures plunge below the design temperature -15°C of the #ASHP, so the peak boiler takes over. Luckily only for few days annually, and using bio-oil. #SectorCoupling#Wärmewende
@nemobis On the other hand, Fortum does have some bad experience with the failed 6km #DeepHeat borehole in Otaniemi. And they do recover heat from wastewater in Blominmäki and Suomenoja treatment plants, so that source seems exhausted.
Meanwhile in Finland, companies line up to offer AI tools for households and businesses to exploit the hours of very cheap electricity, enabled by cheap wind power. https://yle.fi/a/74-20065437
The commute to #Viikki campus in northeast #Helsinki has excellent #cycling infrastructure. If snow ploughing is prompt as promised, cycling on this #Pohjoisbaana can be safe, healthy, quick and very enjoyable year round.
Tomorrow #Raidejokeri, the first inter-city light rail line, finally starts operation, connecting east Helsinki and #Espoo, the capital's western neighbor.
These tracks left in the picture will serve 90.000 daily passengers: https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000009902854.html
Construction at the #Fennovoima#nuclear project site in northern Finland ended a year ago after russian invasion in Ukraine, with 800 million euros lost so far. The supplier was #Rosatom, the russian nuclear company. There are 5 lawsuits in progress, dealing with various claims for compensation. Claims are not public, but are likely in the billions.
Some still believe that a new developer could build a nuclear plant at the site but it certainly won't be Fennovoima.
There are some good items in the programme:
-utilities must provide customers with demand response automation
-citizen's participation in small scale generation increases, including through Energy Communities
-end double taxation when charging/discharging electricity storage
-support long and short term heat storage
-support pumped hydro
-R&D increase to 4% of GDP with focus on energy transition
-independence of Russian imports
-fossil fuels phased out in heat and power generation by 2030
But there are some silly entries, particularly on wind and nuclear energy. There is an unsubstantiated claim that Finland needs more nuclear energy. Despite repeated calls for competitiveness and technology neutrality, nukes will benefit from public financing and capacity markets.
Wind power will be penalised by distance minimums and the requirement to include dispatchable capacity. This is precisely the nonsense that the industry feared.