Writing
Grid, load, and the operator stack
European energy, written from the operations side.
- europe · grid-constraint · uk
The UK did the painful thing with its connection queue. Now comes the harder part.
Britain culled 700 GW of zombie projects from the queue in 2025. Then the demand queue grew 205% in seven months. Data centres are most of it.
- europe · grid-constraint · ireland
Dublin's DC pause, four years in
Ireland became the canary for grid-constrained DC markets. Four years on, most people still haven't read the lesson properly.
- flexibility · europe · markets
Reading European imbalance prices — an operator's primer
A curve that runs every 15 minutes on every major European grid. Most data centre operators don't look at it. The ones who do make money.
- ai · forecasting · operations
Why your load forecast breaks the moment training starts
Forecasting libraries built in 2021 weren't trained on square-wave loads. Most DC operators are running models that quietly broke.
- europe · grid-constraint · netherlands
Two years into the Dutch grid moratorium — what actually changed
The moratorium didn't kill Dutch data centres. It forced them to learn a skill nobody else in Europe has yet.
- fragmentation · operations
The sixteen tabs problem
How DC energy ops accumulated fourteen systems that don't talk to each other. It's not a technology problem.
- category · derms · ems
DERMS, EMS, DCIM — three categories pretending to be one
Three product categories with overlapping acronyms, different origins, and none of them built for what AI data centres now need.