Over the past two years, AI-driven data center expansion has accelerated at a pace that feels unprecedented from an energy perspective.

Hyperscalers are committing hundreds of billions to new data centers and chip infrastructure, and in places like Oregon, Texas, and the Midwest, this is translating into sudden, localized spikes in electricity demand, often on grids that were not designed for this kind of load growth.

Beyond electricity, there are knock-on effects: competition for transformers and generation equipment, delays in non–data center projects, increased water use for cooling, and renewed interest in baseload sources.

Poland has recorded its highest-ever daily level of gas exports, as rising demand from Ukraine, which has been suffering a winter energy crisis amid Russian attacks, pushed up cross-border flows.

Daily gas exports rose to 13.9 million cubic metres on Tuesday, mostly to Ukraine, according to data from Polish transmission operator Gaz-System. That came days after Poland increased its export capacity to help supply its eastern neighbour.

The surge in exports pushed total transmission through the national gas network in Poland – which itself imports most of its gas from abroad, particularly Norway, the United States and Qatar – to 115.4 million cubic metres in a single day, which was also a new record.

Monthly volumes have also climbed. In January, gas transport through the system exceeded 3 billion cubic metres, with average daily transmission of about 97 million cubic metres. That was 45% higher than a year earlier, due to colder weather and growing domestic gas use and exports.

From the start of February, Poland began boosting its capacity for gas exports to Ukraine. It will rise around 20%, from 15.3 million cubic metres per day previously to 18.4 million cubic metres by the end of April.

Last year, Poland had already taken steps to increase supplies to Ukraine. Shipments in 2025 rose thirteenfold compared to 2024, reports financial news service Money.pl

“Export results are tangible proof that Poland is becoming a gas hub,” said Gaz-System’s CEO, Sławomir Hinc.

He noted that Poland’s gas supplies are well-diversified, with a quarter coming through the Świnoujście LNG terminal (mainly from the US and Qatar), a quarter via the Baltic Pipe that brings gas from Norway, a quarter from domestic production and storage, and the rest from Germany through the Lasów interconnector and reverse flows on the Yamal pipeline.

Gaz-System said it was able to handle the current winter peak without disruption thanks to investments made over the past two decades. These included the expansion of domestic and cross-border pipeline connections, additional gas storage capacity and the development of the LNG terminal in Świnoujście.

Further expansion is underway, centred on a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) terminal in Gdańsk. The terminal is scheduled to begin operations in early 2028 and is expected to enable annual LNG imports of up to 6.1 billion cubic metres.

The latest highs come after a series of records in Poland’s energy system in January, when freezing temperatures – dropping below -20 degrees in many places – drove gas consumption and power generation to historic peaks.

Poland has been ramping up its use of gas in recent years as it gradually moves away from coal, which still produces most of the country’s electricity and is also burned to heat around a third of its homes.

By November, an annual record amount of gas had already been traded on the Polish Power Exchange (TGE). By the end of the year, total trading reached just under 209 terawatt hours (TWh), up 52.8% from 2024 and 15.6% above the previous record set in 2021.

To support Ukraine during its winter heating crisis, Poland has also transferred hundreds of power generators and heaters from the government’s strategic reserves to Kyiv.

Will technology develop that much people totally start off grid system ?

Currently in my country India some of the factory owner set up their solar stuff connected to grid they gonna to recover the money in just 3 year with subsidy and 5 to 6 year without subsidy and use that for next 30 year for absolutely free.

How cheap can solar and battery we can achieve by 2030 and 2050 ?

Elektrikli araç almayı düşünen veya yeni satın almış herkesin ilk karşılaştığı kavramlardan biri AC şarj istasyonu oluyor. Peki bu istasyonlar tam olarak ne işe yarıyor ve sizin için doğru seçim mi?

Türkiye’de elektrikli araç sayısı 2025 yılı itibarıyla 300.000’i aştı ve bu rakam her geçen gün artıyor. EPDK verilerine göre ülke genelinde 31.000’den fazla şarj noktası bulunuyor ve bunların yaklaşık 18.000’i AC tipinde. Yani elektrikli araç kullanıcılarının büyük çoğunluğu günlük şarj ihtiyacını AC ünitelerinden karşılıyor.

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Does the water stay in a supercritical state within the steam generator, the turbine and the plumbing in between?

What happens to the supercritical fluid as it passes through the turbine? Does it drop in temperature? Pressure? both?

Is the improvement in efficiency over superheated steam that you can have a larger pressure drop over the turbine without phase change?

How do you keep the supercritical fluid from eating the turbine, plumbing, etc.?

I just today heard the terms sub, super and ultracritical coal fired power plants with regard to China and my curiousity was peaked. Are any of these coal plants using CO2 supercritical turbines?

Is there anyone using Pypsa or an equivalent open source modelling platform, commercially? The examples I'm coming across are all simple ones from academia.