PyPSA v1.0 is officially here - 10 years and 2 days since the first git commit. This milestone release brings major new features, completely new documentation, and a fresh landing page - congratulations to all the PyPSA team! 🎉

🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org

#maddow
Science break.
This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊

Quotes from Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Gustave Gilbert, and Elon Musk, next to drawings of each in pencil style by Patt Bagely. In sequence: "empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes." - Einstein. "The death of human empathy is one of the early and most telling signs that a culture is about to fall into barbarism." - Arendt. "It is one of characteristic that connects all the defendants -- a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the lack of empathy." - Gilbert. "The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy." - Musk

It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices.

Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time.

As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."

Climate change and class structure: greenhouse gas emissions of social classes in the United Kingdom This interdisciplinary research article is situated at the interface of environmental studies and sociology. By bringing an ecological analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to bear on contempo...

💡Suprisingly, we find no major division in terms of per capita GHG emissions within the middle layers - the major disparities in terms of total emissions lie elsewhere in the class matrix.

➡️ Read the full open-access article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In our recent interdisciplinary research article, @robertdorschel.bsky.social , @tonischuster.bsky.social and I apply an ecological analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on contemporary class theory.

🌍🌆✈️ Are you environmentally conscious, cosmopolitan and highly mobile?
🏡🔥🥩 Or a regionally rooted BBQ enthusiast with a spacious home?

Chances are you belong to one of two middle-class factions, that are in a state of conflict, according to Andreas Reckwitz's diagnosis of a split middle class.

By better design and operation 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 of the planned network development cost (~€90 bn of the proposed €283 bn) in Germany could be saved

...according to @nworbmot.bsky.social & team, based on PyPSA modelling in the new @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social report.

ariadneprojekt.de/pressemittei...

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

YouTube video by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK Klimaneutralität 2045: Ariadne-Szenarienreport kalkuliert kosteneffiziente Pfade für Deutschland

Viele Monate haben #Ariadne-Forschende aus sechs am @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social beteiligten Instituten an dem neuen #Szenarienreport2025 gearbeitet. Die wichtigsten #Erkenntnisse könnt ihr jetzt auch in knapp drei Minuten auf YouTube ansehen 👇 🎞️

Mehr dazu im vollständigen Report 👉 lnkd.in/ekaXRWuT

Climate change and class structure: greenhouse gas emissions of social classes in the United Kingdom This interdisciplinary research article is situated at the interface of environmental studies and sociology. By bringing an ecological analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to bear on contempo...

New Publication! How do greenhouse gas emissions differ across social classes in the UK? Combining new data with Reckwitz' class theoretical framework, my colleagues @m-lindner.bsky.social, @toni.schuster.bsky.social and me have just published an article on this

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

38C3: Taking Down The Power Grid Over Radio You know how you can fall down a rabbit hole when you start on a project? [Fabian Bräunlein] and [Luca Melette] were looking at a box on a broken streetlamp in Berlin. The box looked like a relay, …

Funkrundsteuerempfänger – a radio controlled power controller – are boxes on many streetlamps in cities: How cool would it be to make lights blink, but on a city-wide basis?

🔌💡Interested in learning the ropes for our open source European energy model PyPSA-Eur?

Come join our training event in Stuttgart!

📅 Dates: January 27-28, 2025
📍 Location: TransnetBW Offices, Stuttgart, Germany
🗣️ Language: English
🔗 Registration Deadline: January 17, 2025

Energy Exemplar has blocked all TU Berlin students from academic licences for their energy modelling tool PLEXOS because competitor PyPSA is developed here. While deeply shocked, we believe in turning the other cheek. So we are offering all Energy Exemplar employees a free licence for PyPSA.