Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
Commentary from fd.nl (Gronigen is an onshore field)
With the closing of the gas tap in Groningen, a widely supported decision to prevent further earthquake damage, the cabinet deliberately decided a few years ago that the Netherlands will become more dependent on foreign countries.
After all, the disappearance of the largest gas production location in Europe cannot be compensated for by the small gas fields in the Netherlands. The demand for natural gas will remain high in the Netherlands in the coming years, also because gas will serve as a back-up for periods when weather-dependent renewable energy fails. Less supply, if demand for gas remains the same or even increases, automatically means that more gas has to come to the Netherlands from other countries.
That shouldn't be a problem. There is a sufficient supply of natural gas worldwide. The government therefore sees no reason to take additional measures to guarantee security of supply in the future. The market is doing its job.
That has indeed always been the case in the past, but that is by no means a guarantee for the future. The dynamics on the gas market is changing. Whereas until about ten years ago natural gas only flowed through pipelines, the Netherlands can now also buy natural gas in liquid form on board ships in Qatar, Algeria or Russia. This is good for diversification, but if shortages threaten, the Netherlands will have to compete on the international spot market with countries such as China, India and Japan, which also need large quantities of gas.
This increasing international demand, combined with a cold spring, has pushed up prices on gas markets. High prices are one thing, dependence on large suppliers abroad (read: Russia), who are reluctant to fill Dutch gas storage facilities in times of high prices, is another.
These circumstances require a more proactive government policy to guarantee security of supply. A holy belief in the market no longer fits in this context. It is not without reason that the Dutch Mining Council, an independent advisory body of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, recommends paying more attention to security of supply when making decisions about annual gas extraction in Groningen. The Mijnraad advises to phase out gas extraction from the Groningen field as planned, but not to end it irreversibly.
That is a difficult message for Groningen residents who long for peace in the ground after years of tremors and damage, but it does provide a necessary backstop to guarantee security of supply in the future.
Lees het volledige artikel: https://fd.nl/opinie/1407329/houd-optie-op-gas-uit-groningenveld-open-shh1caCLAmwp
We don't need a big name ex mining bod to parachute in. The weak link was the processing side of things and that has been addressed. We are in effect a quarrying company, drill, blast, process.
Gresham House are quite aggressive buyers of these sites they are operating 2 of the smaller ones. Remember the favoured size back in 2018/19 was 20-30MW when these sites were planned.
Now they tend to be 49.9MW max size to stay within clueless local planning, who in the main rubber stamp them.
re is an Advances Conversion Tech example, make of it what you will.
https://suireng.ie/project/tees-valley-2-renewable-energy-facility/
Haven't a clue what advance conversion tech is, haven't given it any thought.
You need to sort by Tech type, then region and then county if you want something that makes sense and then the batteries will pop out.
Renewable Energy Planning Database: quarterly extract (June 2021)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/renewable-energy-planning-database-monthly-extract
You can download this in CSV or excel. Please note I have found this resource not to be 100% complete but it will give you information on what is going on in your area. I think some of you will be potentially gobsmacked at what is going on under your nose.
Also remember that the Health and Safety Executive are not involved on any of these proposed BESS sites. That needs to change.
Here is a link to the map of proposed BESS sites larger than 10MW taken from trawling local council planning applications (under 50MW) and the Scottish Government Energy Consents Unit (over 50MW). These are not all of the proposed BESS sites as some usually new wind farms have little to no details of what is being planned.
Much of the information supplied through the planning process is sketchy to say the least, and take a bit of detective work.
Many of the early applications are coming back to planning looking to enlarge the project size to the maximum of 46.9MW.
As it stands there are over 5GW of proposed storage and only 2-4 are currently operational.
It would be helpful if a map of the while country could be drawn up. I would suggest splitting the country up as mapping Scotland took days.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Qi1VS2nR9ZGSYzBejeIW2H09ThjSLzx8&ll=56.42857811019882%2C-2.870613514195224&z=7
I have mapped all the proposed site (from planning applications) in Scotland. There are over 5GW of planned BESS storage which are assumed at this time to be Lithium.
About half a dozen are in urban areas which is rather worrying. The notable one being in Dyce adjacent to Aberdeen Airport.
https://publicaccess.aberdeencity.gov.uk/online-applications/files/076C10A1783475FD1D0D3696F4131530/pdf/201599_PAN-Location_Plan-1974957.pdf
https://www.google.com/maps/place/57%C2%B012'07.2%22N+2%C2%B011'26.1%22W/@57.2019913,-2.191549,269m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x488413b27727c09b:0x71ecae1eeb6bd7aa!2sDyce,+Aberdeen!3b1!8m2!3d57.203514!4d-2.190188!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d57.2019898!4d-2.1905773
Lucky you do realise the EV battery and the grid battery are the same thing. The grid just has a quantum leap in the number of cells involved.
These batteries could (although I suspect in this instance unlikely) be used EV batteries housed in these containers. China is in the process of banning used EV batteries in grid storage.
https://technode.com/2021/06/24/china-to-ban-large-energy-storage-plants-from-using-retired-ev-batteries/
Forgot the link:- https://kistosplc.com/operations/
Vistaman are you getting something in the region of £172k/day? Remember we only have 60% along with our joint venture partner, Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN), who hold the remaining 40% working interest.
I get a rough £103k/day.
MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters) - Russian businessman Maxim Vorobyev and his Amereus Group have raised his stake in Evraz to 3%, the Russian steel producer said on Monday.
Amereus Group said in a separate statement that its investment is a bet that Evraz's vanadium business will profit from rising demand because of the element's usefulness in green energy storage.
"Vanadium represents a strategic component of the global transition to green sources of energy," the group said in its statement.
It did not disclose the value of the deal or the previous size of its stake in Evraz.
Evraz's major shareholders include Roman Abramovich, Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov. (Reporting by Polina Devitt; Editing by David Goodman and Barbara Lewis)
https://www.marketscreener.com/amp/quote/stock/EVRAZ-PLC-9428118/news/EVRAZ-Russian-businessman-bets-on-vanadium-with-3-investment-in-Evraz-35946597/?utm_campaign=promo+202102+share_article++en_us&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=promo%20202102%20share_article%20%20en_us&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=display&__twitter_impression=true