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4/ In a similar vein, trade cooperation/integration between the EU electricity market and Ukraine and Moldova is increasing 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇲🇩 This mainly impacts long-term (LT) transmission rights between Ukraine & neighbors such as Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. Step-by-step integration.

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3/ I have written about this move in an earlier Delphi Zero essay: The objective is to make Baltic EU countries less dependent on energy flows from Russia → i.e. less infrastructure/energy risk in case of direct conflict. delphizero.substack.com/p/rift

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2/ High-level Trend #1: Market Integration & Energy Security 🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪 Synchronization of the Baltic grid happened in Feb'25 → from Russian grid to EU grid Grid connections and electricity trade is not only a measure of market expansion but energy security.

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 29/05/2025

1/ Time to sift through ENTSO-E's Market Report, which they released yesterday. My Qs: - What happened between June'24 and May'25? - What are current trends? - What are risks and opportunities? Will share what grabs my attention in this thread 🧵 [link to report: www.entsoe.eu/publications...

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Cool essay/summary. Below is my personal definition of 'narrative' - would be curious to hear what you think about that. Have written about it at length in this series: delphizero.substack.com/p/future-myt...

Question for #energysky - Can you point me to some experts on EU NCCS (Network Codes on Cyber Sec) for electricity grids? Would love to get a more "on the ground" picture beyond the legal texts & EU publications. → Actual efficacy → Preparedness ...etc. Thanks in advance 🙏

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5/ The EU Inc is an important first step in making Europe more resilient. Much more work to do. But stories like Andreas' initiative of mobilizing people to lobby on behalf of the 28th regime and creating a real policy shift is a beacon of hope. Let's go Europe! 🇪🇺

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4/ The solution is the "EU Inc." - also known as the "28th regime" Pan-european standards: - digital incorporation - company registry - legal docs (like EU SAFE) - hiring Sign the petition here: www.eu-inc.org Read about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_re...

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3/ EU is lagging behind in terms of high-tech. The US and China have a leg up. And given the current re-shuffle of geopolitical alliances, EU must wake up and strengthen its resilience. What's the suggestion?

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1/ If you are a European and haven't heard of Andreas Klinger, then buckle up. Andreas - founding CTO of Product Hunt and investor via his Prototype Capital - is currently working Brussels to make Europe more competitive. His message: "Europe needs to be a player, not a playground." A thread 🇪🇺

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Ok, seems like you can start using the service by clicking one of the "suggested prompts" and it will open a conversational interface Meta wants to push Llama via your daily interface (Whatsapp) Curious to see what this will do to OpenAI's usage numbers (especially if Whatsapp stays free)

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It asks you to review the updated terms (which I haven't done yet) before you can start using the service

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then, there seems to be a button to enter a business chat with "Meta AI"

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 25/03/2025

Does your Whatsapp search interface also look like this? Seems like Meta shifting their attention to utilize (long-term monetize) the app. Thoughts?

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Fascinating article. Tl;dr seems that most transformers are built-to-order and that's what's causing bottlenecks. Q for #energysky - Why isn't there more standardization in transformer production?

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 19/03/2025

Antarctica comes from ἀνταρκτικός - "antarktikos" or “opposite the bear.” No bears but lots of penguins 🐧

A Gentoo penguin with its fluffy chick. (Photo Credit: Sara Shih)

Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 19/03/2025

Trivia Wednesday: Why is it called Antarctica? Arctic comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός - "arktikos" or “near the bear” - and refers to the star constellation Ursa Major mainly found in the northern sky. Also, polar bears are only found in the Arctic/northern regions. 1/n 👇

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 13/03/2025

DFC (Development Finance Corp) created during Trump's first term might morph into US "Sovereign Wealth Fund"

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 13/03/2025

A concrete example are energy projects in Africa (e.g. Lake Turkana Wind Power in Kenya) The signed take-or-pay PPA locks the Kenyan utility into paying Sh16/kWh (3x of current market prices)

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 13/03/2025

tl;dr: "Development is no longer a public good to be directly financed by states, but a market opportunity to be unlocked through the alchemy of public-private partnerships (PPP) into “investible,” privately-owned projects." substitute USAID with Private Equity and you know wassup

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 07/03/2025

they are so cool. Humpbacks are currently my faves. Saw this guy around the Antarctic peninsula.

Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 19/02/2025

Slow and steady. Thanks to all my readers and climate buddies 🙏 Will try my best to publish action-inspiring essays about climate. delphizero.substack.com

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 09/12/2024

Sent this to a friend for a trend report. Some thoughts on the topic of "climate tech is dead" and what this means to me tl;dr: Climate Tech is becoming too broad of a term. It makes sense to increase the fidelity of nomenclature for companies/market segments. Any thoughts? #energysky

Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 06/12/2024

Finished watching "Culinary Class Wars" yesterday. Wow! What a show. It inspired me so much that I'll have to share my thoughts on my climate newsletter. Sounds random? Might be... but I think there are some things to learn from this show.

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4/ CUSTOMIZED FEEDS 📺 Quick & easy way to curate different feeds for different purposes. On Twitter, I did that with lists. But here, you have more flexibility of curating a feed based on: - Users - Topics - [Combination of the above] - ... Very useful.

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3/ BLUESKY DIRECTORY 📒 by @mubashariqbal.com Helps you browse useful resources (starter packs; lists; clients; schedulers; etc.) blueskydirectory.com

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8/ Time = Edge I don't have a full picture of the market yet, but my intuition tells me that there's opportunity in: a) Accelerating these OODA loops b) Increase the information fidelity ... probably much more I'm currently not thinking of. If you build/operate in this space, let's chat.

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7/ Speed ⚡️ You have to be able to react to price signals fast enough. It's a quasi-OODA Loop for electricity market participants. Example: 👀 Observe: Connect to EPEX 💶 Orient: Analyze price signals 📊 Decide: Yay/nay ✅ Act: Consume/generate; Charge/discharge; etc.

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5/ A couple of business opportunities result from this: #1: 📊 Dynamic electricity contracts where the user can adjust consumption/generation based on price signals Best positioned are (neo-)utilities who can offer such services to their customers or software-/service providers who unlock this

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3/ The inverse means that: a) day-time usually means large solar generation capacity and b) can possible cause an over-supply but, electricity markets must be balanced - supply == demand - (due to physics) That's why, electricity system operators use financial incentives to "regulate downward" ...

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2/ Below is one of my favorite slides. It visualizes the times ([a] times of day; [b] seasons) where SolarPV struggles to generate. tl;dr: [mornings & evenings] + [winter] usually means lower capacity This has an implication on price levels and market incentives.

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Adjacent thought based on this slide: "'AI' tends to turn into 'automatic'" Similarly, I think what's currently referred to as "climate tech" will eventually become "tech," since more companies will use sustainable technologies/processes (due to performanc/price advantages)

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GOAT slide in Ben Evans' annual presentation "2005: AI Is Eating the World" → "Everyone in tech is giving away someone else's business model for free" Reminds me of @gwern.bsky.social article about commoditizing your complement gwern.net/complement

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1/ I'll start a @bsky.app appreciation/comment/note thread 🧵 Small features, bugs, peculiarities that catch my eye. Let's start w/ a big one 🔗 Instead of the standard handle, you can connect your own domain. Examples: @pmillerd.com @adhdjesse.com ... and many more Nice touch.

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Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 25/11/2024

reminds me of this Venn diagram I saw once (unfortunately, don't remember the source... but illustrated it myself now) huge area that's profitable but not legal. Still doesn't make it right.

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Hi to 102 followers 👋 To the ones who don't know me yet, I write about climate, energy, and company building. Curious to hear what y'all are interested in. Please say hi.

Art Lapinsch 🌳 @artlapinsch.com · 24/11/2024

24/ @andrewdyster.com FYI that's the screen I'm confronted with for deployment through Replit

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21/ It worked 🤯 bsky.app/profile/artl... Attached is the form entry in the micro app and the link to the published 2-part post. This feels like magic.

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20/ Would be too good to be true. ❌ Of course we have an error message. But let's try and fix that.

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19/ Ok, now I type a sample text into the form field. The functionality is simple but good enough for a test: a) text entry b) split text into separate "posts" based on character limit c) update preview → to show you how it would look I'll hit "Post Thread" now... let's see what happens

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17/ Running into more authentication issues ❌ Does anyone have experience with that?

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16/ Login does not work ❌ Feeding the error message back to RA

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15/ Invalid credentials test ✅

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14/ Replit Agent changed the authentication method: From [OAuth] (old) to → [direct login] (new) Next checkpoint looks like this

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13/ This felt more difficult than expected... and for a reason. BSKY doesn't offer a public API yet? 🤷‍♂️ ChatGPT proposed an alternative route (see below) via [com.atproto.server.createSession] endpoint. Let's feed this into Replit Agent and see what happens

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12/ I fed the RA prompt into ChatGPT to give me a step-by-step instruction for how to get credentials. Will work through these and then report back.

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