Ben James
@climate_ben
Engineer, blogger. http://benjames.io Fellow @BritishProgress, @join_polaris & @rootsofprogress
My grand theory of life is to just hammer the shit out of quadrant 4

Here are my estimates of inertia on the Spanish power grid. Measured in seconds (how long the grid could sustain its output just from kinetic energy of spinning masses). TLDR: it’s reduced quite a lot! Note: this is v v rough (just multiplying gen mix by inertia per generating…


Who can I speak to that's an expert on Italian ancillary service markets (specifically aFRR & mFRR)?
Solar data center is in progress. Who would like remote access to an RTX4090 for a week? (real Q)

what if every sunday you got mailed printouts of all your substack subscriptions that published last week