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Household energy is peanuts. Solar is peanuts. The big consumers are industry. With a bad economic climate, less energy is consumed. Has nothing to do with "renewable" energy.

kWp does have a standardized definition; it's the output when the module is exposed to 1,000 W per square meter of irradiance at 25 degrees C and an air mass equivalent to 1.5 times the vertical atmospheric air mass.

Several sources reporting that Cuciurgan power plant can consume anthracite coal only and was tuned to get exactly coal from Donbass which is now unavailable for obvious reason. Perhaps Ukraine has some reserves but otherwise it will be practically impossible to supply it. So gas seems the only option for them

Also new here. I have been watching for maybe a month. I love that you know what you're talking about and cover interesting topics and current events in the European energy sector! It really does affect us all.

Magnesium 1.7 g/cm³ Aluminium 2.7 Steel ~ 7.2. There.

You're foing God's work. Debunking bullsh"t is extremely important - there's way too much superficial, and even plain wrong information out there.

Ukraine offered to supply Coal in talks with Moldova. But obviously I don't know how serious they were. But they would import Electricity in exchange. So it would be a win win even if it were not viable on the free market it is viable for Ukraine. And it would be an even better step to cut out Russia in all of this.

Underrated channel for sure, keep up the good work, you definitely deserve at least 100k subs

Wow too bad for those Transnistrian government workers and others having reduced incomes/cold dwellings etc-coal+solar seems good to explore!no free Russian coal!?🙃

im european i do get black outs but that has a lot more to do with how hostile the tarain were i live is. im not entiteled enugh to blame the power companies wen an avalanche or paricularely tall faling tree cuts a power line

8:10 Are you serious or fool?😂 So Canada has no sovereignty Because it is a US puppy, they even set a 100% tariff on Chinese cars and don't even have their own car brand. 😂

2:07 😂Ok it is Ukraine cut the gas, not Rus .This video looks very biased. giving misinformation 2:48 Please don't be a fool.How can Transnestraia get gas if Ukraine blocks gas from Russia? 😂😂Do you think people are stupid?Can't read map And don't know the route of gas pipes

Does it matter if Moldova is neutral? It can do what it wants (within reason of course, eg not invading its neighbours)

World is a weird place 😳.

Weirder than some cobbled together crap in Africa? I doubt it.

When it comes to Russia freezing it's own soldiers, it might not be quite true. I can't verify this myself but I've seen claims that a significant portion of the "Russian" soldiers in Transnistria aren't actually Russians from Russia proper and just stationed there. Rather, nowadays a lot of them are actually just locals who also have Russian passports and have taken contracts with the Russian military. I don't know if that's actually true or not but, if it's true, that might explain a portion of Russia's apparent callousness.

I am a new subscriber. You do really good job with your videos. Keep it up! Greetings from Poland

Oh this is weird :) Looks like russian puppet states are loosing it... I feel bad for the people that believed in Moscow and now have to suffer consequences. Let's hope it all ends up OK. And you are right - energy is everything, without it, you are done as individual, as country, as society. So energy independence and self-sufficiency is the key.

Russia wanted to sell to Europe, Ukraine didn't want to transport and Ukraine wanted to transport to Transnistria (?), Russia didn't want to sell. Frankly, my dear, these two sentences don't make any sense. And I don't give it a damn.

Updates since I started working on this video: Transnistria has sent a diplomatic mission to Russia, and claims to have secured gas supplies as humanitarian aid, but nothing has been delivered so far, and there has been no confirmation from Moscow. The government in Chisinau has taken a more threatening stance towards the government in Tiraspol, pressuring it to either solve the humanitarian crisis, or to get out of the way, and let Moldova and Ukraine deliver the energy and humanitarian supplies. I regard this change of tone as confirmation for my idea that Moldova is trying to take advantage of the situation and make the government in Tiraspol fade into irrelevance, as Chisinau takes over the situation. A coal supply chain has been identified, with Ukraine offering to send coal free of charge, in exchange for exports of electricity, as well as offering to send expertise to manage the power plant, and Moldova is pressuring Transnistria to accept. The situation could become *even more weird*, as the power plant which is ostensibly under Russian military control becomes managed by Ukraine, to the benefit of Russia’s enemies. The nameplate capacity of the power plant is huge, on the order of 2000MW or more. If this could be refurbished and operated at full capacity, Moldova could become not only self-sufficient, but even an electricity exporter, not only to Ukraine, but also to Romania, although Romania’s border-carbon taxes might make the coal electricity uncompetitive as compared to its own CCGTs.

Well "never" is not quite true. I live in Europe and have had no power for 4-5 times in the last 10 years. Most of the times it was someone destroying the cable or some other local thing and one time it was a very old power line failing and the same age backup line also failing after suddenly getting used at full load. But it was always fixed within hours. Mostly within one or two hours, that one time with the old line failing it took a few more hours.

European here, just came out of a 4 day blackout, so I couldn’t resist this nonsense, click baity title. We had another, shorter one, a couple of months back. Uninterruptible power? Yeah, right! Tell that to Atlantic storms.

I think your descriptions of some of the pipelines, specifically Yamal and NS2, don't seem quite accurate. When it comes to Yamal, deliveries *to* *Poland* were halted by Russia because Poland refused to pay in Rubles but the deliveries *through* *Poland* were halted because Poland didn't renew their transit agreement with Russia in 2022. That might not technically be a sanction but it still seems to be mostly due to the invasion (at least indirectly). And when it comes to NS2, it hadn't yet received an operating license before the start of the invasion (due to various reasons) and after the start of the invasion Scholz announced that it would not be getting the license. Again, that might not technically be a sanction but it was clearly due to the war. However, Germany did still continue importing Russian gas through other routes including NS1.

I have never had a black out in the uk in 44 years...

Thanks France for our 80GW low carbon drivable nuclear Power ❤

hi @SizeMichael your input at 4:30 around heat+power is really interesting. There might be a topic for a future video on this subject alone. In Denmark we have a large rollout of central heating coming from such plants already, but it's actually holding back a lot of the utilization of green energy, something Denmark has in surplus often. The demand for heating and power tends to be not aligned, so on very windy days we use a lot of heating but also get a lot of cheap energy from the north sea. The operators of the power+heat plants cant reduce the load on their plant because demand for heating is high and tend to end up (according to the news outlets) having to pay neighbours to take their excess power. Afaik no heating+power plants have successfully moved to electricity alone, which i suppose would remove some of the initial purpose.

Exellent video, but the price of gas has almost zero effect on electricity price in Finland because Finland uses very little gas for electricity production. Electricity price stabilized because of the the Olkiluoto 3 and big increase of wind energy.

Giveth the affect on indoor air quality, I refuse to live anywhere that even has natural gas piped into it. Which, thankfully, most places where I live don't. This is a great innovation!

Sounds neat! I wonder if they're available for North American 120v/15 amp outlets?

If solar panels are so cheap and getting cheaper, why could we not dimension the inverter and battery to our peak monthly needs (January in cold climates, and rather July in hot climate, where A/C is prevalent), AND dimension the solar panel peak power to the second lowest production day in the entire year (the first lowest being covered by the battery) ? Sure, most household would not have a roof big enough... but a lot would have a garden big enough on top! Furthermore, ground-based installations are cheaper and easier to maintain. In my case, I have 3.6 ha... so, no sweat! I 100% agree it is not financially optimum, but a) the surplus might not be that huge, and b) boy, is it tempting to be independent from the grid! O! I forgot to say... let's factor in the variable of owning an EV with V2H capability!

Good job Michael! But you compared the cost of solar power delivered at night ($78/MWh), i.e. 100% of storage, with the LCOE of CCPP ($56/MWh... which, BTW, is now MUCH higher over here in Europe). But to be fair, only 1/3 to 1/2 (say 40%) of the power has to go to storage, the majority being used in real-time. So, the LCOE of solar + storage, as a daily average is rather: 0.4 * $77 + 0.6 * $40 = 56.4 $/MWh... hence well within the error margin identical to that of the cheapest form of gas-fired power generation! And now, 3 years after your video, solar + storage is DEFINITELY cheaper!

sure and make the story complete your electric meter is a joule meter how the woke left turn things try to make from a kwh meter a joule meter why for fame sorry but it will stay a kwh meter, so sad that you need the son of a brewer to learn that a hour have 3600 seconds x 1 watt just faik know first what volts is a second 230 V x 50 hz is in fact 50 x 4,6 V in one second the same you can do with 60 hz and the hz have nothing to do with rpm but with poles on the rotor. knowing electricity is more than using a word joule in a storry. unbreakable again fake info you are using they can break milions know that

yep a left social picture that shows how they lie.

Huge disappointment... You sound so reasonable in other videos but sadly I will have to reevaluate trust I had put in information you presented there, seeing how you blindly follow silly hype here. Tesla promised something in a year (how is the FSD going, coming this year for sure, right?), and a desperate one other company is trying out their competitor. So we just should assume it is the future. Ridiculous.

We will see about that Tesla profitability in 2025...

Nationalize all power grids and operators. Privatizing essential services is a most unintelligent move.

Great video! Thanks!

If your gas boiler usage is low enough you could also convert your boiler to bottled gas instead of mains and cut the standing charge which is quite expensive in places like the UK.

yet.

In Norway we do not even have any natural gas infrastructure to speak of, so your choices are mostly heatpumps, resistive or burning wood. (burning oil for heating residential homes has been illegal for decades).

That why renewal energy is stupid

It is true that the wind may not be blowing where you are but it is blowing somewhere else. So that’s why we have an electricity grid.

the water reservoir often fuction as battery, with having potencial energy stored in mass of water on higher ground, and time it can start giving back to the grid in around 30s - 1 min.

Most of the fossil fuel subsidies probably go back to politicians by "lobbying", otherwise they wouldn't be so eager to pay them.

It feels illegal to have access to this type of information for free. Please allow monetization through memberships in your channel. And please don't stop making videos!

its extremely cool to watch this, I feel myself so much related to EU...

living in an Apartment, you could install a plug in pv system - in Germany they are now dirt cheap and you are allowed to just plug it in your socket for <0.8kW inverters

Interesting to hear your thoughts. However I would have liked to hear about countries energy reliability, resilience and energy independence.

Wind is hardly cheap and hardly works ta' boot. Why aren't we measuring all the inputs, externalites, maintenance, life span and disposal of these systems?!? When this is done you'll find all isn't roses.

Writing from a year later, Michael's predictions about 2024 were correct.