Jörn Richstein

The myth of the single market Why Europe’s internal barriers are higher than Trump's tariffs

"There's a paradoxical evolution in the European Commission's role. As it has taken on additional functions in areas like housing, defence and geopolitics, it has retreated from its core task of policing the single market." www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-myth-o...

For training the models yes, for inference (running the model to give answers) latency matters. This article discusses trade-offs for attractiveness of DC in remote locations, if operators want to keep some flexibility in the use case down the road: www.alvarezandmarsal.com/insights/ret...

Vorschlag: Anstatt die Übertragungsnetze dauerhaft zu subventionieren, lieber kosteneffizienter bauen und ein Teil der Kosten mit einem Amortisationskonto um ein paar Jahre verschieben

Nach unserer Berechnung kann man mit kluger Planung etwa 92 Mrd. EUR (einen ,,Wumms'') sparen

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Paul!

As Germany is heading to the ballots, here is again what to watch out for today as Europeans.

Two things will be important: 1) Will a stable two-party coalition be possible? 2) Will a constitutional blocking minority emerge against a debt brake reform and/or another special fund for defence?

The map displays the Baltic Sea region with a dark blue background representing the sea and lighter blue areas showing landmasses of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The title "PLUGGED INTO EUROPE" is prominently featured in white text at the centre with country flags above. Thin blue lines illustrate energy infrastructure, while icons in yellow and red denote specific locations. Administrative boundaries are outlined in subtle contrast, with a European Commission logo in the bottom right corner.

Plugged into Europe! 🔌

The Baltics 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 have disconnected from the Russian power grid and fully synchronised with the 🇪🇺 continental one, marking their energy independence.

After two decades of preparation, it is now time to benefit from our common energy system.

The part on pardons as showing a lack of trust in institutions I found convincing (no need for them with trust in institutions, checks & balances?). However, the bi-partisan blame seems a very conscious choice. Is it out of conviction, signalling historical distance or to achieve bi-partisan appeal?

The Netherlands is no longer Germany's 17th federal state in economic terms.

New Commission research shows that once strong NL-DE correlations in macro variables (GDP, investment) have become insignificant.

A couple of observations on the stunning divergence between the frugal bulwarks.

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Meinem Gefühl nach sind Medien oft schlecht darin, sich entwickelnde Ereignisse angemessen zu greifen.
Wenn zahlreiche kleine Bausteine ein großes Bild ergeben, wird das unmittelbar oft verpasst.
Beispiel hybrider Krieg zB in der Ostsee. Viele kleine Einschläge, die man in Zusammenhang setzen muss

The EU CBAM methodology implicitly has the assumption that the world follows the EU's carbon pricing & CBAM approach.

A long list of EU ETS experts, incl. @karstenneuhoff.bsky.social, Misato Sato, @philippequirion.bsky.social, & many more argue for a complementary instrument if that's not the case.

A decision.

Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass Supermärkte mit Schnellladesäulen in Städten da ne wichtige Rolle spielen werden. Häufigkeit (1-2x die Woche) plus Aufenthaltsdauer (30min+, aber nicht mehrstündig) passen ganz gut zum Ladebedarf, und guter Ladesäulenauslastung.

Cook Island flag oil tanker Eagle S lost 25% of her speed minutes before she crossed the broken cable Estlink2. She crossed at 10:26Z, ie the time of cable fault.

She proceeded at affected speed til she reached shallow waters, where she lost all momentum. After some maneuvers she regained speed.

Emissions Trading System for buildings, road transport and small industry (ETS2): cap adopted for 2027 The Commission has adopted a Decision establishing the EU-wide quantity of allowances issued under ETS2 in 2027

1 036 288 784!
This is the number of allowances for 2027 that has been set today as a cap in the Emissions Trading System for buildings, road transport and small industry (ETS2) by the European Commission.
climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo...

And here my co-authors that I could find on Bluesky: @falkoueckerdt.bsky.social & @karstenneuhoff.bsky.social , and the participating institutions @diw.de , @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social , @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social , @oekoinstitut.bsky.social, IREES

Since its one of my first activities on Bluesky in a long time, maybe of interest to @matthiasdeutsch.bsky.social , @energyhuber.bsky.social , @marcowuensch.bsky.social , @gnievchenko.bsky.social , @wpschill.bsky.social , @plehmann.bsky.social and hopefully others

Thank you especially to my co-authors (and my co-corresponding author Johannes Eckstein) and to Friedrich v.Schönfeld @bmwk.de (German Ministry) for the many productive discussions we had (during my time @diw.de), on the design of CCfDs over the course of their implementation – I learned a lot! 6/6

We also compare CCfDs to other policy instruments that (among other goals aim at) industrial decarbonisation, such as the EU innovation fund, the SDE++ or the IRA (so maybe even interesting for people across the pond @jessedjenkins.com) 5/6

Figure illustrating the production costs of conventional and clean processes (steel, ammonia, methanol, cement, and process heat), and the respective shares of energy costs, other opex and CAPEX. Overall increases between 50% to 390% increase in total production cost from conventional to clean process, mainly due to increased energy costs.

3) A tender mechanism that is open & focused on all energy-intensive industries (instead of energy carriers). And which has the option to use bid levelling parameters to let sectors with different costs compete head-to-head, & thus achieve a more comprehensive coverage of sectors at lower costs. 4/6

2) The use of planned energy intensities defined at bidding time - prevents unwanted operational distortions. 3/6

Figure illustrating the functionality of CCfD and how the payments are linked to carbon and energy prices.

1) Two-sided contracts that cover both carbon price, and energy price movements address the currently existing investment risk barrier – these price risks matter as this is where most of the cost and risks of clean energy-intensive industrial processes lie. 2/6

Screenshot of the title page of the commentary. Title Catalyzing the transition to a climate-neutral industry with carbon contracts for difference Authors Jörn C. Richstein Vasilios Anatolitis Robin Blömer Lennart Bunnenberg Jakob Dürrwächter Johannes Eckstein Karl-Martin Ehrhart Nele Friedrichsen Till Köveker Sascha Lehmann Oliver Lösch Felix Christian Matthes Karsten Neuhoff Paula Niemölller Matia Riemer Falko Ueckerdt Jakob Wachsmuth Runxi Wang Jenny Winkler

Our new commentary in Joule (authors.elsevier.com/a/1k9mf925JE...) describes the rationale behind the major design choices underlying Germany’s recently concluded 4-billion € tender of Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) for emissions reductions in energy-intensive industry: 1/6 🔌💡 #climatesky

⌛ Faster rusting for the energy transition

Hydrogen is notoriously difficult to transport over long distances. But what if it could be virtually stored in iron and then extracted again when and where it’s needed?

Enter Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) as virtual H2 storage.

Results from a DNV study
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Meterologisch oder metaphorisch?

Für HH m.e. wenig kritisch - für EI-Industrie und Erzeuger durchaus relevant. Kann mir daher gut vorstellen, dass es für existierende Teilnehmer Ausgleichszahlungen gibt (z.b. durch FTR Allokation oder EE-Politik). S.h. auch dazu den Report oben oder hier: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ja, passt auch zu anderen Studien, die wir hier gereviewed hatten (in 7.1): synergie-projekt.de/download/ele...
Da waren Unterschiede eher kleiner - aber Ausbaupfade sind ambitionierter geworden.

I saw that some time ago. I could never quite decide whether this was tongue-in-cheeck, or somebody confusing what's sometimes seen as relevant in twitter debates, with what either state-of-art academia, system planners, or individual investors do, when selecting technologies in power systems.

CO2-neutrale Prozesswärme: Welche Möglichkeiten hat die Grundstoffindustrie?

Unsere neue Studie für das UBA gibt Antworten.

Von @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social und @rwth.bsky.social .
Download+Exceltool: s.fhg.de/prozesswaerme

Ein Flug durch die Ergebnisse anhand von 11 Thesen 🧵⬇️

Schöner Artikel! Aber: ich sehe die ungleichen Verteilnetzentgelte nicht als ursächlich für die Debatte um Strompreiszonen an (das wären aus meiner Sicht z.B. 70%-Regel und eff. Engpassbewirtschaftung). Insofern frage ich mich ob die Motivation hier wirklich die Rettung der Gebotszone war.

Indeed interesting! Slightly surprising that they don't mention the option of a consumption tax combined with free allocation - which has a lot of similarities with their proposal in its simplicity, avoidance of resource shuffling, etc & has been mentioned in Böhringer's review (who they cite).