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What do you plan to use instead of fossil fuels today?
by gautamdivgi 3y ago
What do you plan to use instead of fossil fuels today?
- tpmx 3y agoIn Norway and Sweden (shared grid): Primarily electric hydro + nuclear power. Wind power adds to the mix when it's windy - and it often is. (Here's the complete picture regarding the grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental_Europe#/media/File:ElectricityUCTE.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...) There are power cables between RG Nordic and RG Continental Europe/RG Baltic/RG GB but to my knowledge they are all via high voltage DC - so not AC phase synced.
- gautamdivgi 3y agoIs that deployed infrastructure today to handle needs and scaling for the future? I know Germany was cutting back on nuclear.
- tpmx 3y agoI think we're getting a bit off-topic here, but in a nutshell: The current government of Sweden wants to build new nuclear power plants to scale up the power supply for the future.
- gautamdivgi 3y agoThat’s good to know. Thanks!!!
- sidewndr46 3y agowell today I learned something interesting: Norway and Sweden aren't on the big grid that covers most of Europe.
- matsemann 3y agoWe (Norway) do have cables connecting us to UK and Europe. They've been a hot topic the last year with the high energy prices. We're making bank on selling our hydro power when gas got scarce. But that skyrocketed our own prices. It's a difficult topic. It's probably a net win for Norway, as we can produce when price is high, and stop our hydro and import when prices are low. The problem is just that the benefit ends up making the government and the electric producers (again owned by government orgs mostly) rich, but us people have to pay more for our own energy use. So using that extra money earned to help the people is needed.
- sidewndr46 3y agoI would assume those cables aren't frequency synchronized however, they are either a HVDC cable or have DC interconnect somewhere so that the grids aren't frequency synced.
- kzrdude 3y agoHere's a bonus: western half of Denmark is on the continental europe synchronous grid and the eastern half is on the Nordic grid.
- sidewndr46 3y agoat least the whole country is nominally ~220 VAC 50 Hz though right? Not like Japan with different frequency standards.
- kzrdude 3y agoRight,the difference is basically invisible. I wonder why RG Nordic is not linked up with continental Europe.
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- kzrdude 3y agoIMO Sweden and Norway need to separate domestic and export electricity prices so that they can come back to having cheap energy as a genuine advantage for its industry.