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Probably, but transporting and storing energy are two things that are still very expensive and bad for efficiency. With few hours of daylight in winter times y
by Ambroos 10y ago
Probably, but transporting and storing energy are two things that are still very expensive and bad for efficiency.
With few hours of daylight in winter times you simply don't generate enough electricity to cope with the demand. It's a hard thing to solve too, the darker and colder it is the more energy people need (light and heating).
- aianus 10y ago> It's a hard thing to solve too, the darker and colder it is the more energy people need (light and heating). I believe peak electricity use is during the bright, hot summer when everyone needs to run the A/C.
- tulihauki 10y agoIn warmer climates, yes. Not in Finland, however. Here's a graph of power use and generation in 2015: http://www.fingrid.fi/EN/ELECTRICITY-MARKET/LOAD-AND-GENERATION/Pages/default.aspx?beginDate=20150101&endDate=20151231&showChart=1&showTable=0 http://www.fingrid.fi/EN/ELECTRICITY-MARKET/LOAD-AND-GENERAT...
- aianus 10y agoThe way I read it, OP was claiming that in any given place electricity demand goes up precisely when solar generation goes down. Which may be true in Finland but is false in general.
- kalleboo 10y agoAlmost nobody in the Nordic countries has A/C. Facebook even built a data center in northern Sweden since a lot of the server cooling requirements can be handled by just pumping in cool outdoor air.
- doikor 10y agoSame thing by Google in Finland but using the sea water from the Gulf of Finland which doesn't get that warm even during the hottest of summers. They used an old closed paper mill so they had large structures ready to make it cheap too. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/hamina/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ha... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoWeirdly, there's also projects that extract heat from the water in Finnish Fjords: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31506073 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31506073