@VibrantCE

VCE® uses our combined skills to create energy modeling software (WIS:dom®), provide forecasts, & to create reports/papers on future energy systems

 Boulder, CO
vibrantcleanenergy.com
Joined August 2018
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A couple of weeks ago (@EnergySystemsIG), I announced that @VibrantCE, @CatalystCoop, @GridLabEnergy, Pattern Energy have released the RARE power dataset. If you want it, too, just go here: zenodo.org/records/13937523 (or download with PUDL - a great resource BTW).
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Catalyst Cooperative@CatalystCoop21 Oct 2024
The notebook we used to make these maps is on @kaggle along with the VCE dataset, which is now integrated into PUDL: kaggle.com/code/catalystcoop…

04 Renewable Generation Profiles

Explore and run AI code with Kaggle Notebooks | Using data from No attached data sources

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Vibrant Clean Energy@VibrantCE21 Oct 2024
VCE is proud to collaborate on the release of the RARE Power Dataset—an open-source, high-res tool for solar & wind energy modeling. It fills a key gap for grid planners, ensuring more reliable clean power systems. Use the QR code to go directly to the data!
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VCE is proud to collaborate on the release of the RARE Power Dataset—an open-source, high-res tool for solar & wind energy modeling. It fills a key gap for grid planners, ensuring more reliable clean power systems. Use the QR code to go directly to the data!
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Nuclear Energy Institute@NEI8 Aug 2024
"@VibrantCE put together a report that identified that if nuclear energy is included in the transmission mix as the US looks to decarbonize, we'll actually save our ratepayers about half a trillion dollars." Our expert answers all your finance questions: nei.org/news/2024/ask-an-exp…
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Ben Storrow@bstorrow31 Oct 2023
NEWS: Orsted is ceasing development of Ocean Wind 1 in New Jersey.
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Brendon Slotterback@bslotterback3 Feb 2023
Clean Electricity is a lynchpin to a decarbonized economy. As @VibrantCE has shown, we can clean up transportation and buildings with clean electricity, while running a reliable grid and savings Minnesotan's $$$ mcknight.org/programs/midwes…
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Kevin O'Rourke@krorourke21 Dec 2022
Utility exec, looking to the past: "We absolutely are superior in every regard to those markets over time." Modeling w/@VibrantCE, based on reasonable future cost assumptions: an EIM or RTO would save over $100B as compared to SEEM (current "market"). acore.org/real-time-power-ma…
Michael Giberson@MichaelGiberso320 Dec 2022
“The most recent move toward a form of power market, in a group of Western states, has saved nearly $3 billion since 2014, according to the market operator.” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/12/20/busin…

Clean Energy Quest Pits Google Against Utilities (Published 2022)

Google says its goals for carbon-free power are impeded by state-regulated utilities, particularly in the Southeast, that lack a competitive market.

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Replying to @Peter_R_Knowles @JesseJenkins @KenCaldeira @MichaelEWebber @joshdr83 @FERC @VibrantCE @TheMacroGrid
LDES doesn’t work because of the energy density requirements along with the energy harvesting potential by regions. Both will likely be needed; but you need spatial scaling to capture more energy & move. Hydrogen helps (we have tested with all).
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Why #transmission is so important to the #electricity #grid. Remember the #synopticscales. It is large and we must interconnect regions together for these #regular events! Look at the difference between the east & west for next week! We need to connect them!
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Indeed!!
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Kevin O'Rourke@krorourke23 Nov 2022
Replying to @bitterwaterblue @NRDC @audubonsociety @Defenders
Most utility scale development is on private, rather than public lands. Also important to note that scaling distributed generation also requires a significant transmission build. @VibrantCE modeling for @votesolar here: vibrantcleanenergy.com/wp-co…
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Info for #energytwitter. More #coal plant capacity operates worldwide 2day than #naturalgas plants in ratio of abt 6:5. Moreover, more coal under construction than gas (same ratio). Total worldwide #wind & #solar currently operating would not power just #US electricity.
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TerraWatts2010@TerraWatts201019 Nov 2022
"Modeling specialist @VibrantCE has proposed a transmission 'overlay' for the contiguous US, with about 210 underground high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines, 70 nodes, and underwater lines along nearly the entire coastline." pv-magazine.com/2022/11/18/p…

Proposed HVDC 'macrogrid' to transmit low-cost, renewable power in US - pv magazine Global

A grid-modeling company has proposed an underground high-voltage DC transmission overlay for the continental United States. It could potentially help to reduce climate pollutants and electricity...

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Wind and solar capacity factor maps!
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Existing generation in Europe!
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I am giving a talk tomorrow @payneinstitute on decarb of #USA & #Europe. We have expanded our modeling from almost entirely US to global with WIS:dom-G! #climatechange #COP27 #CleanEnergy
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Replying to @DrChrisClack @JesseJenkins @elonmusk @KenCaldeira @morgancputnam @LizaBReed @ElectrifyBloom @drvolts @RobGramlichDC @cleantechsonia @VibrantCE
pst, while I have you: xitter.cf/payneinstitute/status/…
The Payne Institute@payneinstitute7 Nov 2022
Join the @payneinstitute on Wednesday, November 9 for a hybrid presentation by @DrChrisClack of @VibrantCE titled "Economy-wide Decarbonization of the United States & Europe." #decarbonization #NetZero #energy payneinstitute.mines.edu/eve…
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Modeled in the zero2050usa.com study. This is the structure of the #clean #economy by 2050 along with the built #UGHVDC overlay. Existing high voltage AC transmission shown as well. Huge amounts of #HVAC is also constructed in the simulations.
Dr Christopher T M Clack, PhD
@DrChrisClack8 Nov 2022
Yeah, bt what if we cld have a ~70 node, ~210 line UG HVDC trans. overlay for CONUS? Cost ~$400 bn (or $35 bn/yr or $7.5/MWh). It wld save 4.5 Gt of GHG emissions by 2050 & enable reduced electricity costs of $25/MWh. #climatechange #cleanenergy #UGHVDC #justsaying #permitting
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Let's have something nice for the future decades!
Dr Christopher T M Clack, PhD
@DrChrisClack8 Nov 2022
Yeah, bt what if we cld have a ~70 node, ~210 line UG HVDC trans. overlay for CONUS? Cost ~$400 bn (or $35 bn/yr or $7.5/MWh). It wld save 4.5 Gt of GHG emissions by 2050 & enable reduced electricity costs of $25/MWh. #climatechange #cleanenergy #UGHVDC #justsaying #permitting
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The Payne Institute@payneinstitute7 Nov 2022
Join the @payneinstitute on Wednesday, November 9 for a hybrid presentation by @DrChrisClack of @VibrantCE titled "Economy-wide Decarbonization of the United States & Europe." #decarbonization #NetZero #energy payneinstitute.mines.edu/eve…
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