model.energy/future: Live future Germany power system updated with new loads
First Posted: 2024.02.21, Last Revised: 2024.02.21, Author: Tom Brown
"Future Germany with today's weather" site has experimental scenario with:
- 15 million additional heat pumps 🌡️
- 30 million battery electric passenger cars 🚘
- 100 TWh/a hydrogen demand 🫧
https://model.energy/future/html/newdemand.html
Here is a difficult week in January, a "kalte Dunkelflaute":
Technical details here:
https://model.energy/future/#technical-details
More background on the site here:
Blogpost: model.energy/future: Future German renewable power system with today's data
The difficult "kalte Dunkelflaute" is a rare thing, the wind has barely stopped blowing in the past month…
…and if you you look at the last 9 years (graphic shows weekly averages) the hydrogen is used sparingly - it's mainly a wind+solar+battery+demand management story.
