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@AukeHoekstra
Oct 1, 2020 • 14 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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Yesterday was our official NEONreseach.nl KICK-OFF!

tagline: NEON 'lights the way to zero emission energy and mobility'

Here are 5 PhD positions on the program.

Apply if they appeal to you and you want to work in a multi-disciplinary team (thread) Image
vacancy A: NEON research: Energy demand and new market models
jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/the… Image
vacancy B: NEON research: Technical standards to accelerate the energy transition
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/th… Image
vacancy C: NEON research: Modeling the energy and mobility transition (2 positions)
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/th… Image
vacancy D: NEON research: Modeling climate impacts
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/th… Image
Please read the website carefully and use the website to apply. Please don't use email since your application might get lost and it is a lot of extra work for us. But you can ask me/us questions using email (see site). Image
NEON research accelerates the energy transition with a focus on solar, wind, electric mobility, MAAS and smart grids and using a team with many different competencies that will work closely together with each other and with companies and governments.
neonresearch.nl/solutions/ Image
Every Friday we come together in Eindhoven (virtually for now) to learn from each other and motivate each other. We end the week / start the weekend with music and drinks.

Most important are the 35 PhDs.

They work closely with the principal investigators
neonresearch.nl/team/ Image
But of course people of the 20 partner companies are also welcome and every month the Friday is a mini-conference with presentation to and from partners.

The idea is also to use these presentations to eventually create a global transition course.
neonresearch.nl/partners/ Image
Every year we produce a report and (more importantly) an online model that shows cost effective pathways to a renewable future. At the kick-off a member of the Dutch parliament already indicated that he and his colleagues would LOVE to use that.
Let's not exaggerate: a lot of the practical work within NEON will still be writing papers that are primarily relevant for a specific domain or discipline. But the explicit purpose is that the PhDs together create societally relevant pathways that accelerate the transition.
That's the kind of "purpose driven movement" you would become part of when you get a PhD position within NEON. And we aim to grow further so we can make a BIG difference! Please apply when that appeals to you!
And usually I don't spam on Twitter but it is *really* important that we find the smartest and most motivated people for NEON.

So I would like the tagged & following people to consider a retweet. (You can simply mute this discussion if you don't want to see notifications!) Image
@HeleendeConinck @KornelisBlok @Sustainable2050 @marjanminnesma @janrotmans @drk75 @JesseJenkins @Peters_Glen @hausfath @MLiebreich @nworbmot @TomRaftery @GlobalEcoGuy @mzjacobson @TUeindhoven @ChristianOnRE @chrisnelder @mcannonbrookes @DrSimEvans @ramez @wadhwa @GernotWagner

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May 13
Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries.
doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…Image
For PV you may know my graph (that was updated by - among others - carbon brief, the economist and Al Gore).
It shows reality (yearly PV sales) quickly increasing while IEA predictions keep denying it.
The nuclear graph is the inverse: predictions keep skyrocketing and reality doesn't budge.Image
It's similar to a recent paper I wrote on how battery price developments are continuously underestimated by experts. The left graph shows how expert predictions for prices in 2030 get lower as time goes on.
nature.com/articles/s4433…Image
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Mar 20
The final report on the Iberia Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) blackout is out.

A lot of people will be blaming renewables and talk about inertia. But the cause was bad voltage control and that's surprisingly easy to fix. Let me explain.
entsoe.eu/publications/b…
The chair of the ENTSO-E (European grid operators) board Damián Cortinas stated at the press conference: "The problem is not renewable energy, but voltage control, regardless of the type of generation."
sciencemediacentre.es/en/final-black…
You have to understand that traditionally, grids were managed largely through frequency control. If the frequency went down that meant more demand than supply. So you quickly burned more fossil fuels. If the frequency went up you burned less. Simple.
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Oct 4, 2025
The grid is transitioning from a fragile fossil grid to a resilient renewable grid.

Some people don't want to understand this and confuse their lack of understanding with wisdom.

Let me explain once again what @Bjoern_Peters and many others don't understand.
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Bjoern talks about "spinning masses" to keep frequency constant, as if that's super important.
And in the old grid it is.
That's why I compare the old grid to a record player.

Here's a longer thread with details.
It has a sub-thread on Spain.
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But the new grid has what I call digital power transformers (DPTs).

Basically a computer chip is driving a couple of power transistors. It works like a digital amplifier or your new and light laptop charger.
energy-storage.news/demystifying-s…

frontiersin.org/journals/energ…
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Jun 17, 2025
The official report on the blackout in Spain and Portugal is just released. I'll give a quick summary of findings and provide some additional info.

TL;DR
conventional power plants didn't control the voltage as planned
over-voltage caused renewables to turn off as required
The report (of which only press reports are available) points the finger to

1 conventional backup plant taken offline for maintenance without replacement being arranged

9 other conventional backup plants, of which every one had a degree of non-compliance
uk.news.yahoo.com/spain-reveals-…
Renewables also had a role: "tension was very high and sustained, causing the disconnection of generators".


An inside source tells me the voltage went above 110% in many places and solar was required to switch off, which meant 8GW was lost all at once.elpais.com/economia/2025-…
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Jun 10, 2025
Just made a visualization for myself about the unprecedented growth in solar that I thought I might share.

From 1880 to 1950 all electricity came from fossil+hydro. Then nuclear briefly grew with market share increasing with up to 1% per year in 1985.

Now solar takes over. Image
I've described in more detail in a substack post:

There's more info on each picture there.aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/the-coming-s…
I made this picture because I think you forget what is happening when you look at total final energy. Renewables seem so tiny! Image
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Jun 9, 2025
I see this a lot:

Conservatives who *just know* that nuclear is better than solar and thus blame their favorite scapegoat *the government* for solar doing better.

But in reality it's the opposite: the market likes solar so much that not even the government can save nuclear.
I guess Andre's attention for me is due to my being irritated at his fact free diatribes of pseudo-scientific nonsense:


So now he sees reacting to me as a way to get attention?
And I'm reacting again, so maybe I'm being duped?
Anyhow...
Let's start with some quantifiable facts. (Things this conservative armchair energy philosopher is allergic to.)
First thing we notice is that solar and wind are clearly surpassing nuclear (though the new leadership of the department of energy denies it).
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