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Je suis en pleine transfusion, et nous sommes en septembre… C’est le mois de sensibilisation à la drépanocytose. J’en profite donc pour remercier chaleureusement les donneurs. Vous qui rechargez toujours mes batteries, et qui permettez à la petite vampire que je suis de kiffer la vie. Quant aux autres, je vous encourage à aller donner un peu de votre sang si vous le pouvez. Keep drépanobaddies alive. 🩸✨🧛🏿‍♀️🎀 #Drepanocytose #DonDeSang #Sensibilisation

PPC Energie has officially launched its national campaign, "Photovoltaic Panels for Schools, Energy for You." This initiative turns invoice digitalization into renewable energy for schools across Romania. Run in partnership with the Association for Values in Education (AVE), the project guarantees the installation of solar panels and storage batteries in at least 15 public schools, a number that could scale up to 20 depending on customer participation.https://infoenergynews.blogspot.com/2026/09/green-energy-for-schools-ppc-energie.html

Grüne vor 25 Jahren: "Wir müssen ganz viele PV-Anlagen bauen, dann wird Strom billig. Die Sonne liefert kostenlos. " 👉🏼 Strompreis steigt. Grüne vor 20 Jahren: "Achso, nachts scheint ja keine Sonne. Wir müssen daher Windkraftanlagen bauen, die auch nachts laufen, DANN wird Strom billig. 👉🏼 Strompreis steigt. Grüne vor 15 Jahren: "Hmm, der Windstrom ist zu ungleich verteilt. Baut mehr Anlagen im Süden, noch paar Trassen dazu, noch mehr PV, alles subventionieren. Dann, ja dann, Freunde, wird der Strom endlich günstig." 👉🏼 Strompreis steigt. Grüne vor 5 Jahren: "Jetzt ist es klar, der teure Atomstrom war schuld, der verstopft obendrein die Netze. Reißt die letzten Anlagen ab, dann werden die Strompreise ins Bodenlose stürzen, alles wird gut." 👉🏼 Strompreis steigt. Grüne heute: "BATTERIEN!!! Batteriespeicher werden all unsere Probleme lösen. Und Wasserstoff. Jaaa, endlich wird es auf Jahrzehnte sagenhaft günstigen Strom geben. 👉🏼 Völlig unklar was passieren wird 😉 #Energiepolitik #Strompreise #ErneuerbareEnergien

SEND PATRIOT TO UKRAINE. NOW. 🇺🇦 Ukraine does not need another conference, another promise or another delivery timetable stretching into the future. It needs Patriot batteries and interceptors now. Europe must finance them. America must release available systems and missiles. https://t.co/pRW84iD76k #PatriotForUkraine #SupportUkraine #DefendEurope #UA #US #EU

Der erste vernünftige Beitrag aus der @berlindirekt Redaktion seit Monaten, die die Farce der Bundesregierung aufdeckt, die gleichzeitig von Ideologie spricht während sie selbst aber Batteriespeicher blockiert. https://t.co/PAXdmyDBfk #Bundesregierung #Energiepolitik #Batteriespeicher

Column: Even those who believe in large battery storage have dramatically underestimated their rapid growth. Current connection commitments already indicate a growth factor of 27 for Germany. This will fundamentally change the electricity system (whether K. Reiche wants it or not). (translated)

What a harrowing story: a Ukrainian soldier is trapped for half a year in a no-man’s-land reeking of death, watching his comrade slowly die from a treatable wound (bullet lodged in his knee). The occasional friendly drone drops food, medicine, water, batteries, wet wipes, and #UkraineWar #HumanStory #Survival #UA

Le Canada et l’Allemagne ont renforcé notre partenariat dans les domaines de l’IA, des technologies quantiques et des technologies liées aux batteries. Nous avons conclu plus de six nouveaux partenariats visant les minéraux critiques, créant ainsi plus d’occasions pour les travailleurs et les entreprises du Canada.   Aujourd’hui, je me suis entretenu avec le chancelier Merz sur la façon de miser sur les progrès réalisés.   Pour en savoir plus sur notre appel : https://t.co/ZsZYzpXRC8 #IA #Technologie #Partenariat

Deutschland leistet sich zwei parallele Stromerzeugungssysteme mit einer Gesamtleistung von 284 GW, das ist knapp das Vierfache der Spitzenlast. Da während der Dunkelflaute im Herbst die zwei großen Flächen rechts auf praktisch Null zusammenschrumpfen, und Kohle nach der Kernkraft auch noch stillgelegt werden soll, müssen wir nun schnell 20 Gaskraftwerke zubauen. Ausschreibung läuft. Gleichzeitig sind Milliardeninvestitionen in Batteriespeicher geplant, die aber nur als Netzpuffer dienen, und in einer Dunkelflaute abschalten. Es ist definitiv ausgeschlossen, mit diesem Setting jemals preiswerten Strom zu bekommen. #Energiepolitik #ErneuerbareEnergien #Stromversorgung

Für Dunkelflauten bräuchte Deutschland 20- bis 40-mal mehr Batteriespeicher. Die Dimension der Energiewende wird immer gewaltiger. #Energiewende #Batteriespeicher #Stromversorgung #Deutschland 20- bis 40-mal mehr Speicher: Eine Berechnung der Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaft für das Handelsblatt zeigt die Dimension des Problems. Wollte Deutschland längere Phasen ohne ausreichende Stromproduktion aus Wind und Sonne allein mit Batterien überbrücken, müsste die Kapazität der aktuell genehmigten Batteriespeicher-Projekte um den Faktor 20 bis 40 erhöht werden. Milliardenfrage Dunkelflaute: Ein derartiger Speicherbestand wäre laut FfE wirtschaftlich nicht tragfähig und nur mit massiven Subventionen darstellbar. Deshalb gelten steuerbare Gaskraftwerke weiterhin als notwendige Absicherung. Gleichzeitig könnten für die ersten Ausschreibungsrunden nach Angaben der Deutschen Umwelthilfe Förderungen von bis zu 33 Milliarden Euro anfallen. 20- bis 40-mal mehr Batteriespeicher oder neue Gaskraftwerke mit Milliardenförderung, so gewaltig ist der Preis für eine Stromversorgung, die auch ohne Wind und Sonne funktionieren muss. Vielen Dank für den wichtigen Hinweis! Quelle: Handelsblatt/MSN https://t.co/J3Iy0E4Hrg #Energiewende #Batteriespeicher #Stromversorgung

Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.

The electricity from new gas power plants is so expensive because they - good for the climate - do not often run, as there is usually enough electricity from wind & PV. In winter it can be different when there is no wind & snow is on the PV panels. Battery storage is great, but it doesn't help then. (translated)

Genialer Plan: Private Investoren wollen Milliarden in Batteriespeicher stecken – also baut Reiche Hürden. Für neue Gaskraftwerke gibt’s Milliardenförderung. Deutschland 2026: Speicher ausbremsen, Gas bezahlen lassen. Was soll schon schiefgehen? #klartextmitLilly #KatherinaReiche https://t.co/xHJAhNC3rR #Energie #Investitionen #Nachhaltigkeit

Mit Batteriespeicher + Solar + E-Auto-Lader + Wärmepumpe verändert sich der gesamte Energieverbrauch deines Haushalts. Ein integriertes System kann: – Das Auto automatisch in den günstigsten Preiszeiträumen laden, ob mit Solarstrom oder bei niedrigen Netzpreisen – Den Wärmepumpenbetrieb auf Zeiten mit Solarüberschuss oder niedrigeren Strompreisen verschieben – Netzeinspeisung minimieren und Eigenverbrauch maximieren. Die Powerwall 3P hat den Solarwechselrichter und HEMS bereits integriert, weniger Komponenten, weniger Installationsaufwand. Und alles ist über eine einzige App steuerbar Mehr Details → https://t.co/ZIrKEryAtE #Energieeffizienz #ErneuerbareEnergien #SmartHome