@fneum.bsky.social
Energy system modeller at TU Berlin | Dr.-Ing. | previously KIT, Edinburgh uni | openmod ally | PyPSA team
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
🎉 PyPSA v1.0 is here!
✨ Highlights
🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Homepage: pypsa.org
🎲 Two-stage stochastic programming, including Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR).
🗺️ Interactive maps.
🔄 Extended MGA functions.
🙏 Thanks to all contributors and @dfg.de for funding recent developments!
New set of #PyPSA-Eur introduction presentations from our recent workshop at #DTU with @martavictoria.bsky.social, @iriepin.bsky.social and me. #pypsa #energysky
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAm...
@nworbmot.bsky.social is doing really important stuff again, simulating how methanol (instead of hydrogen) could be the fuel to power a system otherwise mainly running on solar, wind and batteries. SUPER interesting paper.
arxiv.org/html/2505.09...
Curious about the full scenario landscape? Dive into the open-access paper! 📖🌐
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Import choices shape infrastructure needs:
Smaller size of the hydrogen network when green fuels and materials are imported at scale and ammonia- or steel-making can relocate within Europe.
Keeping some European power-to-X in Europe has some advantages:
Flexible operation helps balancing wind and solar variability.
Its waste heat could be supplied to district heating systems in urban areas.
Using Europe’s biogenic and industrial CO₂ streams means lower dependency on DAC.
Only focusing on direct hydrogen imports cuts cost benefit in half.
Imports of derivative products like ammonia and methanol are preferred
Importing green energy and steel products (like HBI) has some advantages:
System costs fall by 1–10 % across a ±20% import cost range
In this range, cost-effective import volumes range between 1000 and 2000 TWh (~30-60 Mt H₂-eq)
No cost savings beyond imports of 3000 TWh (~90 Mt H₂-eq)
What we explored:
A full sweep of scenarios, interpolating between complete self-sufficiency and wide-ranging imports, plus sensitivity tests on low vs. high import prices and on excluding specific vectors to map the cost-effective space.
What we learned:
Green imports and Europe’s net-zero blueprint 🏗️🌍
Steel 🔩, methanol ⛽, ammonia 🌾, hydrogen 🫧, electricity ⚡ - What to bring in and what to keep local?
New #pypsa study in @natcomms.nature.com with @nworbmot.bsky.social and @euronion42.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It really was a fascinating conversation. He's very good on Russia and decarbonisation, and stood his ground when I pushed him pretty hard on energy costs and hydrogen.
youtu.be/BsK-MhUH09c?...
On a stage with style!
11.06.2025 08:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇪🇺🏢🚄 This week I’m travelling to the Brussels European Sustainable Energy Week to talk about integrating electrolysers in Europe‘s net zero economy power system.
Reach out if you’re around!
sustainable-energy-week.ec.europa.eu/index_en
interactive.eusew.eu/eusew-2025/s...
As the hydrogen bubble deflates, what are the alternatives? We present a "minimal methanol economy": using methanol as a gap-filler for the few sectors electrification can't reach.
New working paper together with Philipp Glaum, @fneum.bsky.social, @millinger.bsky.social:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.09277
New work from Hofmann and colleagues shows how hydrogen and carbon dioxide networks influence whether CO2 is transported to renewable hubs and sequestration sites, or H2 is delivered to industrial sites for producing clean fuels from captured CO2.
28.04.2025 09:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are offering a new free, hands-on, two-day workshop on PyPSA-Eur, this time in Copenhagen!
📅 Dates: June 26-27, 2025
📍 Location: DTU - Lyngby
👨🏫 Instructors: @fneum.bsky.social, @iriepin.bsky.social, @martavictoria.bsky.social Aleksander Grochowicz
Registration: forms.gle/4559UPat7NtM...
✈️🚢🧪For Europe's green fuels for aviation, shipping, and chemicals: Should we pipeline H₂ to industrial CO₂ capture sites, or CO₂ to regions with better renewable resources for H₂ production?
📖 See our new study in @natureenergy.bsky.social on future carbon management: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cool new paper from the PyPSA core team 👏🔽
11.04.2025 09:37 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And greetings from the Tauernpass. I might not respond immediately -
busy gasping for air 🚵♂️🫁
We also published a short research briefing alongside the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
11.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the paper, we also explore some more scenarios, e.g. with none or only one of the networks available. So if you're curios about a detailed infrastructure view on Europe's Carbon Management Strategy, have a look! We look forward to your questions! 🌱
Of course, this was made with #PyPSA 😉
We also find that the combination of both networks remains advantageous when climate targets are tightened toward net CO₂ removal. The CO₂ network allows effective utilization of unavoidable industrial emissions through capture and transport to utilization or sequestration sites
11.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We show that dividing tasks between networks can be cost-effective: hydrogen pipelines deliver hydrogen from the South to industrial centres for fuel synthesis, while CO₂ pipelines transport captured emissions from these clusters to geological sequestration sites, e.g., in the North Sea.
11.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Also: Captured CO₂ from some residual industrial emissions, or biomass for negative emissions, will need to be transported to geological storage sites.
11.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
With strict limits for sustainable biofuels and carbon sequestration of 200 Mt a year, large volumes of both molecules must be brought together for green fuel synthesis for aviation, shipping and the chemicals industry, but are rarely co-located.
11.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our team of @tuberlin.bsky.social researchers showed that combined infrastructure for hydrogen and CO₂ pipeline networks could reduce Europe's energy system costs by up to 5.3%, or approximately €41 billion per year. But development requires careful planning across borders and sectors.
11.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
✈️🚢🧪For Europe's green fuels for aviation, shipping, and chemicals: Should we pipeline H₂ to industrial CO₂ capture sites, or CO₂ to regions with better renewable resources for H₂ production?
📖 See our new study in @natureenergy.bsky.social on future carbon management: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 New publication that draws on our openly accessible online tool:
🧮 PtX Business Opportunity Analyser
www.agora-industry.org/data-tools/p...
developed with @oekoinstitut.bsky.social ,
optimization implemented in pypsa
@nworbmot.bsky.social
@emircolak1.bsky.social
@janke.bsky.social
🗞️🗞️🗞️New study on #hydrogen supply chains in Switzerland in the case of abundant and niche hydrogen
Hydrogen production is best located near hydropower, wind power or hydrogen demand clusters. Domestic hydrogen production can be cost-competitive compared to import
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
