> ...and you thought you were heating with renewable energy. No we didn't. As a mathematical modeller and software developer for their inhouse production optim

> ...and you thought you were heating with renewable energy. No we didn't. As a mathematical modeller and software developer for their inhouse production optimization software, I was perfectly aware of what was happening. > Much of the "surplus" power on the grid comes from coal plants (especially in Denmark!) Most of the power plants owned by Ørsted are bio-converted and runs primarily on wood chips and pellets. Unless you are talking about surplus energy imported from Germany, what you say simply isn't true. Besides, the huge amounts of surplus energy that often came from germany were caused by their massive open sea wind farms, making the energy pretty green. Ørsed operated almost exclusively combined heat and power plants, meaning that they can produce heat and power concurrently. The utilization of energy was well above 90%, when we ran the plants this way, because we cooled the plant with the district heating water, instead of sea water. The theoretical maximum is ~98%. We also never planned for pure power production, only to turn it into heat again. That would be monumentally stupid. We had many, highly skilled engineers and power traders, and they absolutely knew what they were doing.