Author: Bengt J. Olsson

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos Model– Generation– Load– Hydrogen productionSimulation– Battery– Battery + fossil gas– Battery + green hydrogenConclusionsUpdates– Storage for gas backup This LinkedIn post spurred a great deal of interest so I’m putting it here as a blog post also with some more detail: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/beos_wind-solar-battery-activity-7217099047092817920-5J9r Here I investigate the properties of a Solar, Wind and…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos Fixed casesCost optimized casesResultConclusionsUpdates– Wärtsilä case This tweet created some waves on X. Let’s look at the details. The background was this post on LinkedIn by Michael Caravaggio : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-caravaggio_a-colleague-asked-me-based-on-the-last-5-activity-7197421216071041024-cI_c In the post Michael presents, upon a question from a colleague, an answer to the question: “How many GW of wind + solar…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos ModellSimulering– EF 2045– EP 2045SammanfattningUppdateringar– Större vätgaslager– Bonusscenario: EK – Elektrifiering Kärnkraft– Feedback från Svenska Kraftnät– Errata– Reglerbidrag I den här blogposten görs en djupdykning i EF (“Elektrifiering Förnybart”) och EP (“Elektrifiering Planerbart”) scenarierna från Svenska Kraftnäts senaste rapport, “Långsiktig marknadsanalys 2024“, LMA2024. Dessa två scenarier förutspår mer än en fördubbling av…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos What if Europe had a perfectly connected power system in 2050? With no transmission network limitations. This will be a long post, juggling large numbers, and with many assumptions that will make this investigation rather speculative. Anyway, you have been warned! What I have done is to use Energy Charts combined data…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos BackgroundThe modelSimulationsDiscussionConclusions Background Following the same trend as many other countries, Portugal plans to increase its power generation to support more electrification, especially for hydrogen production to support a Power-to-X industry. In the so-called “conservative scenario” almost all the increase in power consumption targets the latter industry, while “classical” consumption is projected…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos BackgroundThe modelSimulationsDiscussion and ConclusionsUpdate: Nuclear-only alternativeHydrogen storage in Denmark Background Denmark has plans to massively build out wind and solar power and also to produce hydrogen for PtX purposes. Here is a simple model and simulation of how such a power system could behave under three years, based on wind and solar…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos IntroductionModelResultsConclusionsUpdate 2023-12-02 Introduction Offshore wind power and nuclear power are both complex and costly animals. Both are proposed to provide power in bulk to many regions. Just based on LCOE for each power type, offshore wind power has the upper hand based on a slightly lower LCOE in general. But what happens…

Datum Tråd 2024-05-18 Firming wind + solar power with battery or hydrogen storage (English) 2024-05-04 Levelized cost of… tomatoes! 2024-04-30 Överslag på LCOT (kostnad att flytta elektricitet) 2024-04-14 Kostnad för framställning av grön vätgas 2024-04-07 Uppföljning av analysen av LMA2024 med ett tredje scenario, EK för (“elektrifiering kärnkraft”) 2024-03-24 Analys av Svenska Kraftmäts EF och…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos IntroductionModelResultsDiscussion and ConclusionsUpdate 1: Hydrogen store instead of Battery storeUpdate 2: Nuclear power instead of Biopower Introduction The South West Interconnected System (SWIS) power system in Western Australia (WA) is quite interesting for a couple of reasons Here is a balance model for a optimized SWIS power system consisting of Wind, Solar…

Bengt J. OlssonTwitter/X: @bengtxyz LinkedIn: beos This post will be in Swedish since it pertains to specific Swedish conditions. It is a continuation on the previous blog post that is in English. BakgrundKostnaderResultat och diskussionSammanfattning och slutsats Bakgrund I den tidigare bloggen undersökte jag fyra varianter för att tillgodose målet att kunna konsumera 300 TWh, varav 100 TWh…