There's a 1970s style energy crisis playing out in Japan, Korea & China with hardly any attention from rest of the world. Gas & coal supply shortages, spikes in demand from harsh winter & rationing...but there are deeper roots. @JKempEnergy sets out analytical framework.
https://twitter.com/JKempEnergy/status/1349358099392573446
2/ Mindblowing that one reason energy use & prices are spiking in E Asia is Covid Ventilation. Offices, homes etc opening windows to prevent buildup of virus aerosols while also blasting heat during freezing winter. Thread on crisis
https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1348344285914161152japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/2…
3/ My kingdom for an LNG tanker. An unprecedented shortage of liquefied natural gas tankers has made them the most expensive ships ever hired to ferry commodities. Excellent reporting on E Asian energy crisis by @SStapczynski @a_shiryaevskaya bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 
4/ Electricity utilities in E Asia gambled that Covid would reduce demand so didn't stockpile enough during winter. The opposite happened. Now, a wave of rationing in China, Japan & Korea as companies beg customers to turn electricity off but keep heat on. ft.com/content/7a98f9…
5/ In 1970s crisis, US/Europe shut down all oil-powered electric plants & built 100s of domestic coal plants. In E Asian 2021 crisis, Japan's supply crunch is so bad that utilities starts to run coal plants using fuel-oil instead. A boost for oil producers
https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1349339724553588736
6/ Proximal cause of E Asia energy crisis is freezing weather. Heating needs scale non-linearly w each colder degree. Beijing recorded its lowest temps since 1966, while temps were on average ~6°C below 10-year seasonal norm during January in Seoul & Tokyo reuters.com/article/us-asi…
7/ The polar vortex that brought Arctic weather & roiled E Asian energy markets is about to hit Europe. Becalmed conditions are expected to stifle Europe’s wind generation & nuclear plant outages on supply side combined w demand spike from chill. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
8/ What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. 2020 saw extreme Arctic circle heat, raging wildfires, warming oceans, disappearing sea ice...
Now, the polar vortex is splitting in two & weeks of wild winter weather in E Asia & Europe. washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/0…
Now, the polar vortex is splitting in two & weeks of wild winter weather in E Asia & Europe. washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/0…
9/ There's a pretty pentagonal Rossby wave in the jet stream circling the Northern hemisphere at 250 hPa right now. Wild winter weather & elecricity grid outages for everyone! earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/…
https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1194307795773902848
10/ Global warming =>Volatile weather.'From Japan to Pakistan & from France to China, electricity & natural gas market comes under enormous tension strain this winter'@rachelmorison
More stories connecting dots now that Pandemic made us see global system? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
More stories connecting dots now that Pandemic made us see global system? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
11/ We broke the Arctic. Cold blast sweeping Northern hemisphere is causing chaos in energy markets
France's utility asks customers to delay laundry
Japan pleads to consumers to lower usage
China curbs power supplies to industries bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
France's utility asks customers to delay laundry
Japan pleads to consumers to lower usage
China curbs power supplies to industries bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
https://twitter.com/judah47/status/1349718492036149248
12/ Japan's power crunch this winter has helped to shift public debate about nuclear power, its energy minister told the FT. Nuclear had been replaced by gas & coal after Fukushima.
“I’m trying to persuade everybody that in the end we need nuclear power” ft.com/content/47b189…
“I’m trying to persuade everybody that in the end we need nuclear power” ft.com/content/47b189…
13/ E Asian energy crisis gets a 7.1 mag quake as millions go without power
"Thermal Plants Shutdown Following Japan Quake
About 7 gigawatts worth of gas/coal-fired power capacity has been shut for maintenance following the quake in Fukushima prefecture" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"Thermal Plants Shutdown Following Japan Quake
About 7 gigawatts worth of gas/coal-fired power capacity has been shut for maintenance following the quake in Fukushima prefecture" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
14 / We broke the Arctic. Cold blast sweeping N hemisphere causing chaos in energy markets
France's utility asks customers to delay laundry
Japan pleads to consumers to lower usage
The US is suffering a bitter cold snap; gas prices soar & pipes burst.
France's utility asks customers to delay laundry
Japan pleads to consumers to lower usage
The US is suffering a bitter cold snap; gas prices soar & pipes burst.
https://twitter.com/NOAANCEIclimate/status/1360275006643724288
14 / Respect Japan's engineering & infrastructure planners who have earthquake proofed the country. A 7.2 EQ just shaken off & everything up & running in a day. Gas grids get automatically turned off so no fires from line breaks;buildings sway, not fall...
https://twitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1360775231531479042
14 / Energy crisis in Texas after winter storm. Governor issues disaster declaration for every county. #TexasFreeze
What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic! Frozen pipes, rationing & outages this week as demand >supply bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic! Frozen pipes, rationing & outages this week as demand >supply bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1360578655609618440
15/ Unbelievable spike in energy demand with the Arctic reaching down to Texas, as everyone turns on their electric heaters, all at once! Texas at this moment of climate crisis is using 6 TIMES more power (~70 GW) than all 200 million ppl in Nigeria.
https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1361074490608934912
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