| Energy policy | |
| China energy | China energy policy analyst since 2010 |
| Renewables | Wind, solar, storage |
| OIES | Senior Fellow at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
This is the largest heat pump in the world (60MW).
It is located in Esbjerg, DK and provides heating for 100,000 people.
The heat pump replaced coal-fired thermal generation using Denmark's electricity which is 2/3 from wind and solar.
The Belt-and-Road Initiative ( #BRI ) has reached the ripe old age of 10 this month. Is it really greener than ever, as mentioned in a recent Reuters story?
Here's a new Environment China podcast to help you prep for this week's Belt-and-Road forum on this critical anniversary:
"It is almost a patriotic duty to replace boilers that once depended on Russian gas."
Hard to believe but it is a line from the Telegraph acknowledging the innovation happening with heat pumps right now across the world.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/22/heat-pump-technology-soon-hot-even-britons-tempted/
China recently introduced a major reform of its green certificate market. I wrote about the changes here:
This post by @adrianco
is a really good summary of where Amazon is in terms of decarbonising its digital infrastructure - they have just released their latest sustainability reports, and clarified which regions that count as 100% renewable, an annual basis.
https://mastodon.social/@adrianco/110735937807717846
Also! This is the first year ever that Amazon's carbon emissions have reduced year on year.
You don't need to be an Amazon fanboy to recognise this as progress along a pretty important dimension.
Heat pumps and the chocolate factory:
Forget about Oompa Loompas. The real heroes are heat pumps.
Chocolate makers around the world use heat pumps to cut energy use and carbon emissions.
A 🧵 with examples from across the globe.
Latest Environment China #Podcast with Prof Hu Jianxin of Peking University, an expert on the potent greenhouse gas known as HFCs.
1️⃣ Who needs to take action to reduce emissions of HFCs
2️⃣ Near-term strategies for reducing and recycling HFCs
3️⃣ Substitutes for HFCs (HFOs) - costs, efficiencies and timelines
4️⃣ What does it mean when your air conditioner breaks and the repair person (工师傅) says you need more refrigerant (制冷剂)
Really loved this episode and learned a ton!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/travel/ev-road-trip-ideas.html
Nice to see a positive, accurate, and travel-section-worthy article about EV road-tripping, along with practical advice on apps and routes. Though it’s fair to focus on the charging issues for policy-oriented articles, for those without EV experience it doesn’t capture the experience to just focus on the problems.
Jan Rosenow
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