Brian Vad Mathiesen

Maura Healey welcomed the Danish delegation & signed an economic partnership agreement w Jesper Møller Sørensen to deepen MA–DK collaboration in life sciences
Robotics
AI
offshore wind
energy efficiency
district heating
electrification
+ Smart Energy Systems

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Europe is accelerating North Sea and Baltic offshore wind for a simple strategic reason: energy security.
- 9 North Sea countries backing a build-out aligned with the 300 GW by 2050 ambition
- DK–DE burden sharing to advance Bornholm Energy Island + cross-border power 🌬️⚓️
politiken.dk/danmark/art1...

Link: www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Positioned as a global first: a practical model for cross-border burden + benefit sharing in offshore wind. Bornholm Energy Island (DK–DE) signals
shared costs & upside
- state-backed risk sharing model
- template that can scale to ~100 GW in North Sea countries⚡️🌊

US LNG is now roughly a quarter of EU gas imports, so US cold snaps increasingly transmit into EU prices. Jan 2026 saw Europe’s gas surge ~40% above €40/MWh on cold weather, low storage and tight LNG. Volatility remains the baseline. #Energy #LNG

Fortescue’s 133 MW Nullagine wind farm will use 17 self-lifting Nabrawind towers. Highlights: 188 m hub height + 7.8 MW + 182 m rotor; claimed 15–30% lower total tower cost and 40% lower GHG vs traditional; installable up to 15 m/s winds. #RenewableEnergy
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Overskudsvarme fra nyt datacenter i Ballerup skal opvarme lokale hjem Vestforbrænding og den nordiske datacenter-virksomhed atNorth har indgået en aftale om at udnytte overskudsvarme fra et nyt datacenter i Ballerup til fjernvarme. Initiativet betyder, at op til 8.000 h...

Link : vestfor.dk?canvas=%2Fbl...

• Convert gas & oil boilers to DH
• Build low-temperature DH
• Integrate large heat pumps & thermal storage
• Recover surplus heat where cost-effective
• Ensure thermal infrastructure evolves in parallel w electricity, Without heat grids, EU cannot capture these resources
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Without DH integration, Europe locks in higher heat losses and higher system costs. With integration, digital growth becomes a thermal resource, not a burden.
The agreement aligns with the broader strategy in Heat Roadmap Europe.
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• Sector coupling must happen on the ground, not only in policy papers
• Recovered heat reduces fuel use, emissions and peak electricity demand

AI-ready datacentres mean rapidly rising electricity consumption – and large volumes of local waste heat.
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It is a textbook example of the Heat Roadmap Europe findings:

• Europe has massive, untapped surplus-heat resources (>2 PWh) • Datacentres are among the fastest-growing sources (up to 200 TWh) • Low-temperature DH is the enabling infrastructure
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Surplus heat from atNorth’s new Ballerup datacentre will heat up to 8,000 homes on the outskirts of Copenhagen – and it is exactly the type of solution Heat Roadmap Europe has highlighted for a decade.
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Climate-neutral, secure and competitive energy systems, needs EU to treat electricity, hydrogen and heat infrastructure as complementary pillars, not separate silos.

..for system integration, competitiveness, and reducing fossil-fuel imports - EU needs a parallel infrastructure thermal mechanism for heat, similar to PCI.

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Large heat pumps, district heating/cooling, thermal storage, and industrial waste-heat recovery are among EU's most cost-effective decarbonisation and energy-efficiency options. Yet they remain outside the TEN-E PCI framework.

Given the scale of heating and cooling demand and their importance..
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A major improvement compared to earlier TEN-E cycles, which over-prioritised natural gas w risks locking in higher consumption.

One major gap remains in PCI/PMI: thermal energy infrastructure.
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Europe’s security-of-supply challenges is on the electricity side, driven by deep electrification, large onshore/offshore wind deployment.
The emphasis on hydrogen and electrolyser infrastructure also supports industrial decarbonisation and sector coupling - though not without considerable risks.
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The new EU PCI/PMI list is an important strategic correction in Europe’s energy infrastructure priorities. But we’re still missing half of the picture: heat.

The stronger focus on electricity transmission, offshore grids, interconnectors, storage and smart grids is essential.
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Efter vi skal rose Kæbenhavn Kommunes Klimaplan 2035 - skal vi lige afværge en enkelt - ret stor - katastrofe.

Del opslaget - Vil i ikke hjælpe med at afværge et projekt, som vil binde os til biomasse i for stor en udstrækning i København?

Det er Punkt 4 i planen. Jeg har editeret teksten her:

Standalone and system-level perspectives on hydrogen-based sustainable aviation fuel pathways for Denmark Aviation is one of the most challenging sectors to electrify directly due to its high energy density demands. Hydrogen offers a pathway for indirect e…

• >70% of e-SAF costs come from electricity for hydrogen
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SustainableAviationFuel #ESAF #Hydrogen #Aviation #EnergySystems #DistrictHeating #Denmark

• SOECs improve efficiency via heat integration, but higher CAPEX and shorter stack life still favour alkaline electrolysers today
• In a 2045 100% renewable Danish system, large-scale e-SAF requires major offshore wind and electrolyser rollout – and strict additionality for the power used
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• With wind power at ~30 €/MWh + by-product revenues (especially excess heat to district heating), e-SAF can reach ~0.5–1.1 €/L and compete with fossil jet fuel
• Biomass gasification is most energy-efficient but increases biomass demand; point-source CO₂ needs more renewables but less biomass
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New open-access paper out in Energy (Elsevier) 🚀

8 hydrogen-based e-SAF pathways for Denmark – from point-source CO₂ and DAC to anaerobic digestion and biomass gasification, using both methanol-to-jet and Fischer–Tropsch routes as assessed.

Key insights 👇

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Ny analyse: Fremtiden byder på færre store udsving i elprisen Udviklingen med svingende elpriser kan toppe i disse år. Det er konklusionen på Green Power Denmarks nye Elpris Outlook, som viser, at et grønt energisystem baseret på vindmøller og solceller sammen m...

Udsvingene i elprisen kan toppe i disse år ⚡️ Det er konklusionen i vores nye Elpris Outlook 2025, som viser, at vind, sol og batterier giver mere stabile priser. Se, hvordan fremtidens elmarked udvikler sig👇🏼 #dkgreen greenpowerdenmark.dk/nyheder/ny-a...

Zero and negative prices ARE part of any future. The real question is: what happens in all the other hours?

📉 Negative prices are both a sign of success and a wake-up call. They show that we are producing plenty of electricity - but also that we must accelerate large flexible demands - and the largest potential i in district heating across Europe.

In that light, it’s even harder to see how nuclear could be profitable in this environment, with much higher capital costs.

The record is also a signal: consumers with flexible demand can win — from EVs and smart charging to industries and large-scale heat pumps.
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👉 This is not just a market curiosity. It is a real struggle for new wind power projects. Revenues become harder to predict, financing costs rise, and investors hesitate. PPAs are becoming essential to make projects thrive. 👇

✅ On one hand, it shows the success of renewables: wind and solar are pushing prices down, sometimes below zero. Great for competitiveness + electrification.

❓ On the other: who will invest in new generation capacity — whether backup plants (via capacity mechanisms) or new wind farms.
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