alt Hacker NewsNice. Better energy grid seems like an easy win for Europe. It has enough diversity of sources that just connecting it cleverly can get you crazy efficiency.
e.g. Right now the UK grid is running on just over 80%+ renewable. But when the wind isn't cooperating french nuclear helps.
Broad reliance on renewables just doesn't work without interconnects across large geo regions
Open models provide much better proof and explain exactly this. They enable policymakers, who are key to grid planning, to make verifiable arguments rather than 'black box' ones. Such verifiable models are much harder to challenge.