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A combination of: * Post lockdown firing up of the economy * No investment in nuclear * Broken interconnect * Winter is coming * A spell of the doldrums *
by hanoz 5y ago
A combination of:
* Post lockdown firing up of the economy
* No investment in nuclear
* Broken interconnect
* Winter is coming
* A spell of the doldrums
* Reliance on imported gas
* And last but not least, there's no hiding a debauched currency when you're using it to buy something the rest of the world needs too.
- mrweasel 5y agoYes, but also no. Interconnects are fine in Scandinavia, but a dry summer means less hydro to pick up in a period of less wind. So you need to fire up the coal plant once again, and they are slowly being dismantled. It’s really an unfortunate combination of circumstances, and it affects areas which doesn’t rely on imported gas and nuclear, with working interconnects as well.
- marvin 5y agoIt would be super funny if the result of the increased interconnectedness of Scandinavia and Europe, sold as a measure to decrease the risk of extreme events causing power disruption, actually caused power disruption as we've now sold off all our generation capacity.