Results: A more integrated energy system needs far less back-up capacity & less new infrastructure than a more national, sectoral approach. The study also shows accelerated #renewableenergy build-out replacing #fossilfuels and sets a clear priority for #electricitygrid investments.

This underlines the central role of electrification in decarbonising transport, buildings and industry 🚗🏠🏭
To fully capture these benefits, high-level, transparent and cross-sector planning at EU level is key. 💡2/x

Pulsar time does not need to receive satellite signals to create a time scale. This can be used to synchronize the electricity grid.

7/8

#ElectricGrid #ElectricityGrid #PulsarTiming #FPGA

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1835209

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10273718

@RuthMalan this happens even far from silicon valley, even in old industrial domains which used to care and not break important things.

I just experienced it first hand with a ~36h electricity outage in the small village in French Alps where I was born. It never happened when I was young or actually in the last 60 years. In winter, yes, because of avalanche, and even then it was not so long.

But the cause is mind blowing: two trees fall in lines in two days (with only tiny August storms, we can't even blame climate change here), each time causing a several-hours long fault, and the first one also causing a secondary failure in an old equipment extremely hard to locate, diagnose and workaround (repair isn't possible without week-long work).

That happened during the most critical period for the valley economy, the week before 15th August is the biggest one for tourism. Restaurants lost their fresh food and weren't able to serve clients. Phones and 4g or internet relays stopped working (which wasn't the case with copper link of old times). People flew away. A woman asked us (my mother has an autonomous electric generator, because I inherited my prudence from somewhere) to keep her lifesaving medicine in our fridge. Etc.

And all the three failures are avoidable with routine maintenance. Once upon a time, we used to clean trees around lines. We used to have an exceptionally well maintained electricity grid in France, even in remote villages.

3 decades of privatisation of old public service and cost reduction on infrastructure to allow exploitative capitalistim on top of them lead to that costly, dangerous fiasco.

This is a shame. Experiencing first hand collapse resulting from extractive policies labelled as progress is daunting.

#france #enedis #electricityGrid #collapse #lateCapitalism