Energy Science Seminar
Electroroute - Enda Molloy
- Subsidary of Mitsubishi. similarities with Japna, island nation importing fossil fuels. So it made sense to transfer
irish skillset to Japan.
- Build their own algorithms, in house infrastructure. Estimate 5m tonnes of CO2eq abated over 10 or so years.
- They provide balancing services to wind farms and solar farms.
- Develop solutions for commercial entities that are generating their own energy?
- They sell balancing products to those who actually own the assets?
- Do they just focus on renewables?
- 40% of employees between 25-34.
- Electroroute academy a training program.
- Are we talking about trading futures?
- Who are the buyers in the market, grid operators?
- Surely traders will be replacing themselves by algorithms in the coming years?
Advent technologies
- High temp. PEM fuel cells. Above 100C.
- Pretty impressive lots of patents and originating in Greece. The first> public listing from Greece on Nasdaq.
- Any fuel under any conditions.
- Aiming to push operating temp. to 240C, not too sure why.
- MEA heart of the fuel cell stack (like a processor) Membrane Ecltrode Assembly.
- General set of specifications for a fuel cell. Kind of like jet fuel. Cost is a major one for commercial viability.
- 40-60% of costs is the catalyst (Platinum).
Hydrogen Ireland
- Energy systems modelling. All models are net zero 2050. Where you take a point in the future and work back.
- There wont be many new technologies in 2050, according to this guy.
- If we get rid of biofuels and ICE, what do we replace them with?
- The hydrogen ev has a smaller battery. Still has an electric motor.
- Cars aren’t the future for hydrogen for transport. Used where we need range. Think buses, HGV’s.
- Need to upskill. All the technicians for recent projects have come internationally.
- Societal change will mainly be related to those immediately affected by Hydrogen development.
- Hydrogen storage at scale is really cheap.
SEAI
- Apart from grants, SEAI work on data. Publish lots of data.
- Energy statistics looking at measurement, Energy modelling team works on projections.
- Balance is informed by 100’s of surveys from all manor of sources.
- Balance thoroughness is due to the ‘legal’ basis of the balance.
- Ireland has a huge import dependency. Largely fossil fuels.
- Change needs to come from: technology, behaviour, legislation.
- Any imports are considered non-renewable.
- ‘Legal requirements’ is related to ‘ring fencing’ funding for national projects.
EPA
- Declared climate and environmental emergencies in Ireland back in 2019.
- It’s interesting that most people don’t read the reports bodies like the EPA put out, but like Ezra Klein says
(above). Its about who reads them.
- EPA graduate recruitment campaign.
- Trying to get specific about actions for people to take and communicating that to people.
- Is it about communicating the impact that climate change will have?
- I feel I don’t even understand this.
- Good discussion at the end of this. Really get a sense that I’m in a room with people involved in making these
changes (policy wise).
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