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06.02.26 - 10:33
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"Electricity Market Is F**ked": Finland Wind Turbine Blades Freeze, Curbing Green Power Output (ZeroHedge)
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"Electricity Market Is F**ked": Finland Wind Turbine Blades Freeze, Curbing Green Power Output
Finland has prided itself as a global leader in decarbonization, boasting the second-highest share of renewables in final energy consumption across the EU. But the green utopia narrative has cracked under the strain of a brutal winter, as cold weather has brought wind power generation to a near standstill.
Most of the country's wind capacity is concentrated in western Finland, where temperatures are well below freezing, and these adverse weather conditions have led to dangerous ice buildup on turbine blades. According to Bloomberg, this forced the grid operator Fingrid Oyj to curtail wind power output.
"There are low fog clouds in Finland's main wind power production area, roughly at the height of turbine blades, which are causing new ice to form," Pia Isolähteenmäki, an adviser at industry consultant Kjeller Vindteknikk Oy, told the outlet.
Much of Finland's wind fleet lacks...
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05.02.26 - 20:24
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Is data center demand overhyped? One utilities analyst thinks so (Bloomberg)
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The energy sector has been getting a boost from AI, with an extra 94 gigawatts forecast to be needed by 2030 to power all these data centers. But one long-time utilities analyst is calling out the boom as an infrastructure overbuild.
Andy DeVries, head of investment grade credit and head of utilities and power at CreditSights, tells Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway the math behind his analysis. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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05.02.26 - 18:42
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Enel legt bei Umsatz und Gewinn zu (DPA-AFX)
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ROM (dpa-AFX) - Der italienische Energieversorger Enel hat im abgelaufenen Jahr Umsatz und Gewinn gesteigert. Der Erlös legte um knapp zwei Prozent auf 80,4 Milliarden Euro zu, wie das Unternehmen am Donnerstagabend mitteilte. ......
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05.02.26 - 14:39
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Strom- und Gaspreise in Deutschland für Neukunden gesunken (DPA-AFX)
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BONN (dpa-AFX) - Wer im Januar einen neuen Liefervertrag für Strom und Gas abgeschlossen hat, zahlt nach Berechnungen der Bundesnetzagentur weniger als im Dezember. Bei den Strompreisen waren dabei vor allem die gesunkenen Netzentgelte ausschlaggebend, ......
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