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May 7, 2024
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2 min
We’re very excited to announce that we just closed a financing round of €5M led by climate funds Transition and Revent.‍
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April 30, 2024
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9 min read
In this second article of our marginal emissions series, we document Electricity Maps’ journey of developing models to calculate marginal carbon intensity signals.
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February 22, 2024
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10 mins
(Potentially) unpopular opinion: Asking “How do you define the role of tech lead?” is the wrong question. I encourage instead tech leads and other engineers to reflect about what being a leader actually means;
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February 16, 2024
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5 min read
In this first article of our series on marginal emissions, we introduce the concept of marginal emission factors and begin to examine the complexities that arise when using them.
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January 31, 2024
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10 minutes
In 2023, emissions from electricity consumption decreased by 5% with a 20% reduction in coal-fired generation. Can wind and solar exceed coal in 2024?
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January 17, 2024
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10 minutes
Emissions from electricity consumption dropped below pandemic levels in 2023 but could bounce back in 2024
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September 19, 2023
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10 minutes
A deep dive into Europe grid interconnection and how it got impacted by various factors, including weather, prices, policy, and geopolitics, between 2021 and the end of H1 2023.
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July 24, 2023
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15 minutes
In the second quarter of 2023, wind and solar have generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union. Will this continue to be the case throughout 2023?
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June 21, 2023
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14 mins
On the value of using granular electricity data to optimise urban mobility: FUSE, A quantification of emission savings for electric vehicles in the city of Frederiksberg.
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