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Dominik Keiner

@dominikkeiner.bsky.social
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Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Science 📚 Junior Researcher at LUT University's Solar Economy research group 👨🏻‍💻 Techno-economic modelling of CDR in 100% renewable energy systems ☀️💨💧🌱 linktr.ee/dkeiner

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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#India hast the target to power the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by 100% renewable electricity ⚡See here how it can be done: doi.org/10.1016/j.es... Local e-hydrogen with #solar #PV and e-fuel import for #aviation and #maritime transport the most cost-effective solution 👍 @christianonre.bsky.social
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Caught Between India’s Military Ambitions And Green Promises: The Future Of The Andaman And Nicobar Islands - The Energy Pioneer
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands stretch across the Bay of Bengal, between the Indian mainland and the Strait of Malacca. Of the 836 islands and rocky outcrops
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Labelling single businesses regarding their #climate solution is indeed a good way. Most important is the political framework and ultimately political will. Tackle the climate problem by the root will have a higher impact imho. #Market self-regulation might have limits 🤔
theenergypioneer.com
Climate Targets Need Money - The Energy Pioneer
We launched the Climate Neutral Certified program in 2019 because of its impact potential: companies and consumers already understood neutrality better than
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge The renewable energy wave is rolling! 🌊 India's power-sector emissions may have reached a peak - thanks to renewable power generation ⚡They have added 77 GW solar PV in two years ✌️ @christianonre.bsky.social
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Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge - Carbon Brief
A surge in clean energy has kept carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in check across India’s power sector, with no growth from the first half of 2024 to the same period in 2026.
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📰🌍🚀 Contrary to perceptions, solar #PV can be an important component of an #Arctic #energy #system. Its low cost makes it competitive even in areas with long, dark #winters, particularly when other #renewable energy sources provide insufficient output. @lut.fi
pv-magazine.com
The value of solar PV in Northern regions is widely underestimated - pv magazine Global
Contrary to conventional perceptions, solar PV can be an important component of a viable Arctic energy system, thanks to the region’s long summer days. Its low cost makes it competitive even in areas ...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Na-Ion #battery wave is starting to build 🌊. No reliance on #lithium and single countries dominating the resources 🚚. Na-ion is here to stay 👊. See also interesting prospects on cost development 📊: doi.org/10.1016/j.es... @christianonre.bsky.social
theenergypioneer.com
ClimateTech Series: An Ode To Sodium Ion - The Energy Pioneer
The global market for sodium-ion batteries, which was valued at less than USD 1 billion dollars in 2024, is expected to grow to nearly USD 29 billion by 2034.
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📰🌍🚀 A review finds that #PV consistently emerges as the backbone of future #energy systems, despite being underestimated in many models. Five decades of #renewable energy research indicate that PV could provide about 61% of global #electricity by 2050. @christianonre.bsky.social @lut.fi
pv-magazine.com
Five decades of research leads to solar PV’s emergence as the world's dominant energy source - pv magazine Global
A systematic review finds that solar PV emerges consistently to the backbone of future energy systems, yet many models still underestimate its role. Across the globe, solar PV is projected to supply a...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1/ New research @lut.fi explores pathways to very high #RE shares for #AndamanNicobar islands in the Indian Ocean. doi.org/10.1016/j.es... This study analyses the role of #EnergyStorage, #PowerBalancing strategies, hydrogen & e-fuels in achieving a #100RE island system.
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
1/ New research @lut.fi delivers high-resolution techno-economic insights into combined PV portfolios in Arctic & sub-Arctic regions doi.org/10.1016/j.se..., highlighting the potential of east-west bifacial vertical systems for low‑cost electricity generation.
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📰🌍🚀 #Finland is poised to build nearly 70 GW #solar PV to complement wind power outcompeting nuclear. Energy system research reveals how the “midnight sun” makes solar PV the summer backbone of the nation’s #energy future alongside wind power. @christianonre.bsky.social @rasul385.bsky.social @lut.fi
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Solar PV offers significant untapped potential for Finland - pv magazine Global
Despite its high-latitude, Finland is poised to build nearly 70 GW solar PV that complements rich wind power resources and outcompetes new nuclear power. A stream of energy system research reveals how...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📰🌍🚀 One of the earliest names of #Cairo, Heliopolis, means the “City of the #Sun”. Today the city faces population growth and rising #energy demand. Could solar #PV revive the connection to the sun, but this time as a cornerstone of Cairo’s energy #transition? @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
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Solar PV can return Greater Cairo to become the city of the sun once more - pv magazine Global
Greater Cairo is Africa’s largest megacity and one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban regions in the world. One of the earliest names of the city, Heliopolis, means the “City of the Sun”. Toda...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Got this interesting mail from „the Scopus journal on clean energy“. Initial review in 1-3 days..? They must have the best reviewers in the world… @grahamkendall.bsky.social
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
👉🏻 Here we go. First in the session on Justice, ethics, and social perceptions of #CDR 2.
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy to be part of the 4th International Conference on #CDR taking place in Milan over the next three days. Looking foward to my talk on #CDR allocation tomorrow.
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The Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Being a functioning human being is overrated 😅
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
📰🌍🚀 Low-cost solar #PV can convert #CO2 from a burden into valuable materials for diverse uses, reframing #carbon #capture as a monetizable removal pathway. Studies on carbon fiber, silicon carbide, and #graphene target large-scale negative emissions by 2050. @christianonre.bsky.social @lut.fi
pv-magazine.com
Low-cost solar PV can turn CO2 into profitable materials enabling negative emissions
Low-cost solar PV enables to turn CO2 from an unwanted burden into a precious raw material and sequestered in materials with many applications. This effectively reframes carbon capture, utilization, a...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Terminology matters: #DAC is only a capture process. We need to be precise in communication. What is meant? #CDR ( #DACCS) or #CCU ( #DACCU)? Or neither?
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Maldives' largest floating solar array goes online www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/22/m... - great to see that reality follows earlier conceptual studies for the energy transitions of the Maldives: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... ; doi.org/10.1016/j.en... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social
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Maldives’ largest floating solar array goes online
Swimsol says the 2.4 MW floating PV array will supply the resort island of Cheval Blanc Randheli, reducing diesel consumption and saving about $1.5 million in fuel costs. The company's engineering tea...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Solar PV Capex could fall to $192/kW by 2050 www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/10/p... - insights of 60 studies on the energy transition @siavashkhalili.bsky.social @dominikkeiner.bsky.social @jeroahola.bsky.social @jmkorhonen.fi @solarpapst.bsky.social @efesce.bsky.social @mzjacobson.bsky.social
pv-magazine.com
Solar PV Capex could fall to $192/kW by 2050
A review of 60 renewable energy studies finds that by 2050, solar PV and wind could supply 80–100% of electricity, but overly conservative Capex assumptions and simplified PV modeling often underestim...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
📰🌍🚀 #Solar #energy is expected to emerge as a bulk energy supplier in #future energy systems. The self-limiting effects of solar #power can be circumvented through solar-hybrid solutions, such as PV- #geothermal hybrid configurations. @christianonre.bsky.social @lut.fi
pv-magazine.com
Solar PV, geothermal hybrid systems are more than niche solutions
Solar energy, driven by excellent resource conditions and rapidly improving economic attractiveness, is expected to emerge as a bulk energy supplier in future energy systems. The self-limiting effects...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🔥 New research published on #CDR via carbonaceous materials. e-Graphene is an interesting option for #CCUS application. Read more 👇🏻 @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social #OpenAccess
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📰🌍🚀 Iran's strongest long-term energy asset may be the sun. New research shows how solar #PV could drive a cost-competitive transition across #power, #heat, #transport, #industry, and #desalination, while opening the door to a broader Solar-to-X Economy. @christianonre.bsky.social @lut.fi
pv-magazine.com
Solar-to-X could redefine Iran’s energy future
Iran is widely known for its oil and gas resources, but its strongest long-term energy asset may be the sun. New research shows how solar PV could drive a cost-competitive transition across power, hea...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📰🌍🚀 CDR is most likely needed for the climate to comply with the 1.5C target. Beneath NCS and land use change, technological and bio-technical solutions are promising. Solar PV may play a key role for optimization even in unexpected places such as Iceland. @christianonre.bsky.social @lut.fi
pv-magazine.com
Carbon dioxide removal benefits from solar PV
Carbon dioxide removal is most likely needed for rebalancing the climate to comply with the 1.5 C target set in the Paris Agreement, as data suggest this level has already been breached on an annual b...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is important! To savely reach 1.5C we do not have any CO2 budget left, while low likelihood budget is also not plenty. @christianonre.bsky.social
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📰🌍🚀 Across history, societies devote major productivity to monumental tasks. Today, managing climate change within planetary boundaries is such a task, with the vast energy potential of solar PV emerging as a cornerstone of a sustainable civilization. @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
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Solar PV will have a major role in marshalling our productivity to create a sustainable civilization
In all ages, humankind decided to spend considerable amounts of the available productivity on special monumental projects. Managing climate change and rebalancing within the planetary boundaries is su...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Sodium-ion battery cells already near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper - www.ess-news.com/2026/01/09/s... @dominikkeiner.bsky.social @aukehoekstra.bsky.social @jeroahola.bsky.social
ess-news.com
Sodium-ion battery cells already near lithium-ion cost parity, set to get cheaper - Energy Storage
By 2050, sodium-ion batteries with fast learning rates could deliver storage at 11–14 €/MWh - cheaper than lithium-ion at 16–22 €/MWh - while also offering higher energy-to-power ratios and high cycle...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🔥New research on #CDR in #Iceland. The country has very interesting techno-economics, enabling a highly profitable industry branch. Read more 👇 @lut.fi #OpenAccess
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
📰🌍🚀 Tropical islands can achieve #sustainable, secure economies through low-cost #renewables. #Solar #PV dominates due to strong resources and falling #costs, driving a transformative Solar-to-X economy for #energy and beyond. @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
pv-magazine.com
Small islands, big impact: the role of solar PV for the tropics
Low-cost renewables provide an opportunity for tropical islands to drive a sustainable, secure and self-sufficient economy. Solar PV emerges as the bulk energy provider, driven by excellent resource c...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Podcast on Impact of Backtracking Strategies on Value of Single-axis Tracking Solar PV youtu.be/3cOQHNwBdl8 for this article from 2024 doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @lut.fi @dominikkeiner.bsky.social
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Impact of Backtracking Strategies on Value of Single-axis Tracking Solar PV
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
📰🌍🚀 Solar #PV, #wind, and #battery costs have dropped far faster than models predicted, reaching levels decades ahead, highlighting outdated pessimism that risks misdirecting #climate investments and distorting #decarbonization strategies. @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
pv-magazine.com
The future arrived early: Why our energy cost forecasts need to catch up
While solar modules and batteries have become icons of rapid progress, most energy models are still stuck in the past. A new global analysis shows that the cost of renewable energy has fallen far fast...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Podcast on Maldives Energy Transition - OTEC's Potential for a Net Zero Future youtu.be/udr0Y5cxk8o for this article from 2024 doi.org/10.1016/j.en... @lut.fi @dominikkeiner.bsky.social @rasul385.bsky.social
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Maldives Energy Transition - OTEC's Potential for a Net Zero Future
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
📰🌍🚀 Solar #PV dominates the #energy #transition, yet models often ignore current technologies. This column urges energy system modelers to align scenarios with real-world #solar PV progress, offering key studies as #inspiration. @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
pv-magazine.com
Solar PV needs more nuanced assumptions in energy system modelling
Solar PV currently evolves as the most important source of energy. Many energy system models still do not consider technologies that are already standard in today’s solar PV market. This article provi...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Final final versions are for beginners… -> prefinal3 🤟🏻😆
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🪫->😎->🔋 Batteries are set ready to power the world - now the first 8 hour storage system wenz online in Australia www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/30/a...
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Australia registers first eight-hour duration grid battery
Australia has commissioned its first eight-hour-duration battery energy storage system, marking a key milestone in the nation’s transition to renewable energy.
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#Finland and the rest, pay attention to this 👇🏻 Nuclear power is not the way foward 👎🏻
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Podcast on Global Heat Demand - Space Heating, Domestic Hot Water, Industrial Heat, Biomass for Cooking youtu.be/jusGbwOwxuo for this paper from 2021 doi.org/10.3390/en14... @lut.fi @dominikkeiner.bsky.social @siavashkhalili.bsky.social
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Global Heat Demand - Space Heating, Domestic Hot Water, Industrial Heat, Biomass for Cooking
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🎬🍿 AI-generated summary video for our paper "𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦-𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰-𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 21𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘴" doi.org/10.1016/j.en... @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
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Energy demand of the 21st century for power, heat, transport, industry, desalination, CDR sectors
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
If this is true… 🤯
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📰🌍🚀 #Industry is hard to defossilize due to high energy needs, nonstop operations, and process emissions. #Hydrogen role may be overestimated, while solar #PV - being cheapest - could enable broad #electrification. @christianonre.bsky.social @lut.fi www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/12/s...
pv-magazine.com
Solar-to-X enables industrial defossilization turning power to molecules or materials
The industry sector is most challenging to defossilize, due to high energy and feedstock demand, large and continuously running production plants, hard-to-abate process emissions, and infrastructural ...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A few days ago there was a nice milestone: 100 podcasts on research articles in my team! www.youtube.com/@ChristianOnRE and growing ... right now with 82 subscribers - pls feel free to join. Thx to all the many coworkers within the team & all around the world. Marius, special thx!
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Christian Breyer
I am professor for Solar Economy at LUT University, Finland. Research in my team is on the integrated research of technological and economic characteristics of renewable energy systems specialising in...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🔥New research on bifacial solar #PV modelling and power system impact. No game changer, but still valuable addition to the technology portfolio. @lut.fi
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The most annoying part of being a researcher: Investing hours in adapting research proposals (for paying your own salary) to specific requirements and layouts of funders over and over again, so that a REVIEWER can kill it because he/she doesn‘t like it (w/o getting reviewer reports after rejection)🤦🏻‍♂️
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a corner with his hands on his knees .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a corner with his hands on his knees .
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"huge solar PV demand for Africa ahead" - that's what we find since year. The energy system solution for Africa is largely PV+battery as the core & most important backbone. Additional articles would be these ones: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... ; www.cell.com/joule/fullte... ; doi.org/10.1016/j.eg...
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Contextualizing the scope, scale, and speed of energy pathways toward sustainable development in Africa
Energy resources; Energy policy; Energy management; Energy Modeling
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
😎☀️Well this is good news! There is a huge potential ahead for Africa 🌍 (and South Asia): doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @christianonre.bsky.social
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
#Trump climate report has so many misleading information and false claims that it takes forever to read the entire #factcheck. @carbonbrief.org, well done 👍🏻
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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT ☀️🍃⚡️ Over one year ago our study on the Seychelles introducing a new EnergyPLAN-based optimisation tool was published. Check it out (it‘s #OpenAccess) 👇🏻
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
📰🌍🚀 Wave power shows strong potential as a renewable source, especially for coastal and island regions. Complementary to solar PV worldwide, it could support hybrid systems. Islands may gain the most from combining wave power with solar PV. @lut.fi @christianonre.bsky.social
pv-magazine.com
Wave power poised to complement solar PV in future global energy mix
Wave power may emerge as a valuable renewable energy source given recent economic and technical projections indicating a substantial potential of wave energy, particularly in coastal and island region...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📰🌍🚀 The role of solar PV in Indonesia will extend; it will also include the production of e-fuels for hard-to-abate segments as alternative to land-intensive biofuel production. Various scenarios show the cost-competitiveness of solar PV in Indonesia’s renewable energy transition.
pv-magazine.com
Solar energy to drive Indonesia’s transition away from coal, biofuels
The role of solar PV in Indonesia will extend beyond replacing coal-based electricity generation; it will also include the production of e-fuels for hard-to-abate segments, offering an alternative to ...
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Cost-competitiveness for green hydrogen using intermittent renewable energy sources remains a significant challenge. Researchers have shown that considerable cost reductions can be achieved by optimizing plant control and design based on specific hydrogen demand targets and local weather conditions.
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Simultaneous optimization of plant design, control unlocks cost-competitive green hydrogen
Achieving cost-competitiveness for green hydrogen produced via water electrolysis using intermittent renewable energy sources remains a significant challenge. Researchers from LUT University in Finlan...
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
1/ New research @lut.fi @dominikkeiner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1088/1748... presents a quantification of the portfolio-wide area intensity for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) integrated in an energy-industry system.
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Dominik Keiner @dominikkeiner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📰🌍🚀 To address the variability of renewable energy for a stable supply, 22 distinct types of flexibility options are found in 100% renewable energy systems research articles, categorized into power-to-X, energy storage, demand response, transmission and distribution grids, and curtailment. @lut.fi
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Flexibility options are a central concept for highly renewable energy systems research
To address the variability of renewable energy for a stable supply, 22 distinct types of flexibility options are found in 100% renewable energy systems research articles, categorized into power-to-X, ...
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