“Anything that exists is possible” as Boulding’s first law prescribes. I was wondering why, in some places of the world, district energy systems were very flexibly integrated with the electricity system – while in other parts, they were not. So I set out to explore the existence of flexible sector coupling. This resulted in the study that is the fo…

A world premiere for your ears! Nordic Clean Energy Scenarios by Nordic Energy Research is the most comprehensive study of decarbonisation of the Nordics so far – out 7 September 2021. Energy Policycast is lucky enough to host two of the main authors, Klaus Skytte (CEO, Nordic Energy Research) and Kenneth Karlsson (CEO, Energy Modelling Lab and Sen…

Our music and jingles are based in energy technologies - see for yourself in this short clip. Best wishes for the summer! Sound design by Dea Cisar. Hosted and produced by Daniel Sneum, Sustainability Division, Technical University of Denmark - comments welcome. Please rate + share with your colleagues, so we can get fresh research into new ears an…

How does the beauty of the landscape, i.e. scenicness, play into the deployment of wind power? And how can we measure scenicness? Those questions are addressed by Professor Russell McKenna and his co-authors in the study Quantifying the trade-off between cost-efficiency and public acceptance for onshore wind (working paper) and journal paper Scenic…

What happens when old wind projects are replaced with new capacity? Associate professor Lena Kitzing from DTU Wind Energy discuss her recent study - Multifaceted drivers for onshore wind energy repowering and their implications for energy transition - showing previously unknown aspects of repowering. Also worth reading is the affiliated policy brie…

What should we do with waste - dump it nationally or ship across borders to burn? Does it make sense economically - and how about climate? This rare and very interesting topic is discussed by PhD Amalia Alonzo and Professor Marie Münster, based in their two studies The climate footprint of imports of combustible waste in systems with high shares of…

How will various degrees of deployment of data centres impact a small country’s energy system? In this 2020-interview, Stefan Petrovic, now special advisor at the Danish Energy Agency, explains a very interesting study on Denmark by Stefan Petrović, Alessandro Colangelo, Olexandr Balyk, Chiara Delmastro, Maurizio Gargiulo, Mikkel Bosack Simonsen an…

Are markets mature for trading green gases like biomethane? Tara Amirkhizi, PhD from DTU, gives a status and describe her research within the FutureGas project on markets for biomethane. Florence School of Regulation's taxonomy on green gases James Buchanan: An Economic Theory of Clubs Tara's Florence School of Regulation article Status quo of rene…

In today’s study, we take a look into the pockets of European citizens and find 176 BEUR of potential renewable financing. Enough to cut in half the investment gap of reaching 32% European renewable energy by 2030. PhD researcher Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer from DTU Wind presents his and his colleagues' study Analysing the potential of citizen-f…

Get dressed for the buzz on sector coupling with professors Brian Elmegaard and Marie Münster from Technical University of Denmark. We discuss our work on the white paper Sector Coupling: Concepts, State-of-the-art and Perspectives. The study was commissioned by the European Technology and Innovation Platforms on Smart Networks for Energy Transitio…

Which transmission architecture is the most beneficial to integrate large shares of renewable energy in the North Sea region? And what are the consequences of the planning horizon when planning such a system towards 2050? PhD researcher Juan Gea-Bermudez from DTU Management elaborates these questions in the study Optimal generation and transmission…

After a small hiatus including finalisation of a PhD thesis and paternity leave, we're back with more informal and geeky discussions on energy policy, regulation, economics, systems and anything in between. Stay tuned and share our podcast with you friends and colleagues. Your host is Daniel Sneum, Sustainability Division at Technical University of…

Research associate Holle Wlokas/Stellenbosch University presents her research on renewable energy in South Africa and beyond - including the TENTRANS project. In the episode, Holle recommends this social performance podcast. Illustration: The multi-talented Luigi Bottecchia Host and producer: Daniel Sneum (dasn@dtu.dk)/DTU Management's Sustainabili…

Senior researcher Lena Kitzing/DTU on AURES and AURES II. In the episode, Lena recommends the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Illustration: The multi-talented Luigi Bottecchia Host and producer: Daniel Sneum (dasn@dtu.dk)/DTU Management's Sustainability Division Music: Raindrops by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons …

Flex4RES leader Klaus Skytte/DTU on results in the pipeline. Flex4RES - Shift - Negative CO2. Illustration: The multi-talented Luigi Bottecchia Host and producer: Daniel Sneum (dasn@dtu.dk)/DTU Management's Sustainability Division Music: Raindrops by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig…

Prof. Peter Lund/Aalto University on the Flex4RES policy paper. Illustration: The multi-talented Luigi Bottecchia Host and producer: Daniel Sneum (dasn@dtu.dk)/DTU Management's Sustainability Division Music: Raindrops by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/2…

New study on power purchase agreements by Felipe Fausto/Flex4RES. In the episode, Felipe recommends this work on PPAs. Illustration: The multi-talented Luigi Bottecchia Host and producer: Daniel Sneum (dasn@dtu.dk)/DTU Management's Sustainability Division Music: Raindrops by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution …

Energy Policycast: a new podcast on energy policy research covering economics, regulation, modelling + anything in between. Illustration: The multi-talented Luigi Bottecchia Host and producer: Daniel Sneum (dasn@dtu.dk)/DTU Management's Sustainability Division Music: Raindrops by morgantj (c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu…