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Julien Jomaux
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Julien Jomaux writes GEM Energy Analytics, a personal blog at gemenergyanalytics.substack.com about economics and data. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from a thread on gigantic, unregulated power plants in the cloud. The only comment describes a market-based bidding system for power-plant time slots, not the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Insights on the energy sector, with an focus on the European electricity markets.
What Hacker News says?
as far as I understand there's a market based solution. producers bid prices for time slots (consumers too, but that's less important from the perspective of a solar power plant) and if they win the contract is live, they need to input for that slot. if they miss (go over or under) they get paid less (and of course a penalty is possible too, theoretically it's the same) this incentivizes better capacity and availabi…
Comment linking /p/european-power-reserves-part-2-afrr
on “The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud”Submitted The Duck Is Growing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reasons for Negative Prices as a story · 1 points
HN discussion