Moritz Schwarz

Läuft noch nicht so mit der Digitalisierung am Amt in Österreich...

🚨 Big News! Die Förderung für den Ersatz von Öl- und Gasheizungen kommt wieder!

Maximale Bundesförderungen für Ein-/Zweifamilienhaus:

🌡️ Fernwärme: 6.500 €
♨️ Wärmepumpe: 7.500 €
🪵 Biomasse: 8.500 €

Zusatzboni für Solarthermie (2.500 €) und Tiefenbohrung bei Erdwärmepumpen (5.000 €).

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Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"

Imagine having cheaper power

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Was Hannah Arendt sagte über die deutsche Gesellschaft, die sich dem #Rechtsextremismus der Nazis ergeben hatte.

India to Spend $570 Million to Help Steel Companies Decarbonize India plans to roll out a 50 billion rupee ($570 million) program to encourage steel producers to cut emissions, a top government official said.

This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Episode 2: Highest Possible Ambition under Overshoot with Joeri Rogelj

In the lead up to the Overshoot Conference @iiasa.ac.at Sep 30-Oct 2, the organizers had a fantastic nerdy idea to get the leading experts in their fields share their perspectives on the key themes. Highly recommend for your daily commute, background to cooking etc.: open.spotify.com/show/5MpXqh1...

Yay, finally able to save posts in #bsky - thanks @bsky.app ❤️

Achtung. Laut MSN ist es heute dezent kalt in Wien

Policy relevant lessons from research on renewable energy auctions Renewable energy auctions have emerged globally as a primary tool for promoting electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) by awarding operatio…

This paper synthesizes both successes and challenges in the implementation of renewable energy auctions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...

Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯

This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.

#rstats #econsky

BNetzA: Statistik zur Stromerzeugungsleistung ausgewählter erneuerbarer Energieträger – Juli 2025 [Stand 13. Aug. 2025]

www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...

www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

Only a couple days left to register to the Tilburg Replication Games on August 21. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.

Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

"MASSIVE SLOWDOWN IN CHINA'S SOLAR IN JUNE"

Context:😶😂

Hinkley Point C now over £45bn. Sizewell C - which was supposed to be much cheaper based on the experiences of HP-C - now at £38bn...

Maybe, and hear me out here, new-built nuclear power is a tiny bit more expensive than renewables... 👀

Who could have known?

Congratulations Jan, amazing news and a great day for Oxford ☺️

Ah damn, so close and yet so far!
Genieß es!!

Eagle and Child?

📣 I will be sharing my teaching materials & work on #geospatial #datascience and interactive #dataviz.
This is my presentation on ⚡ Spatial Data Science with R ⚡

👉 www.paulamoraga.com/presentation...

#rstats 💻 #rspatial 🌍 #gischat 🗺️ #health ⚕️ #diseasesurveillance 📈

I've written a simple guide to the new Positron IDE for #rstats and #python programming. I think that RStudio is still the most thoughtfully designed IDE for R programming but Positron is very useful if you also code a lot in Python.

github.com/erikaduan/r_...

Nice!!

Well as an Own Resource for the Commission to finance it's debt - not the system itself of course. That is just relevant to where the revenues flow.

bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Yesterday's wind power in Europe's grid

YouTube video by Science Media Center Germany EU-Kommission schlägt Klimaziele für 2040 vor

@sciencemediacenter.de Press Briefing zum neuen Vorschlag der EU-Kommission für ein #EUKlimagesetz mit Expertise von Dr. Lambert Schneider (Öko-Institut): youtu.be/YNEIez_nkUI?...

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️

We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.

The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source.

In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.

@ember-energy.org