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Also tons of coal power from Poland. But that's the beauty of climate activism: As long as the emissions are happening somewhere else they don't count. You ki

by copx 2y ago

Also tons of coal power from Poland. But that's the beauty of climate activism: As long as the emissions are happening somewhere else they don't count. You kill your own industry and just import everything from China, where they use dirt cheap and very dirty energy from brown coal, but, hey, it does not count towards our carbon footprint.

eigenspace 2y ago
Germany does not import a significant amount of electricity from Poland. ___________________________________ Edit: Removed a false claim on my part that Germany exported more to Poland than it imports. I maintain however that the amount imported from Poland is not significant.
- copx 2y ago
  No, your information is false. >A considerably strong increase of electricity imports to Germany is seen from Poland. Starting at a lower level, the Polish electricity import rose by 400 percent in 2021, compared to previous year. [1] ..and that was / is coal power. Media critical of the nuclear exit here in Germany pointed out that the immediate solution to the disappearence of German nuclear power from the network was to increase energy imports, namely more nuclear power from France and more coal power from Poland, which made the whole move even more questionable. [1] https://www.eupd-research.com/en/conventional-electricity-imports-are-the-achilles-heel-of-the-german-energy-transition/ https://www.eupd-research.com/en/conventional-electricity-im...
  - eigenspace 2y ago
    Sorry, I had it wrong that Germany exported more to Poland than it imports, I had misremembered. However, if you look here: https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2023 https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=... you'll see that in 2023, Germany exported 3.57 TWh of power to Poland, and imported 3.05 TWh, which is not very much. For context, Germany imported 63.7 TWh of electricity in total in 2023, so the amount coming from Poland is indeed quite small.

by copx 2y ago

eigenspace 2y ago

Germany does not import a significant amount of electricity from Poland. ___________________________________ Edit: Removed a false claim on my part that Germany exported more to Poland than it imports. I maintain however that the amount imported from Poland is not significant.

copx 2y ago
No, your information is false. >A considerably strong increase of electricity imports to Germany is seen from Poland. Starting at a lower level, the Polish electricity import rose by 400 percent in 2021, compared to previous year. [1] ..and that was / is coal power. Media critical of the nuclear exit here in Germany pointed out that the immediate solution to the disappearence of German nuclear power from the network was to increase energy imports, namely more nuclear power from France and more coal power from Poland, which made the whole move even more questionable. [1] https://www.eupd-research.com/en/conventional-electricity-imports-are-the-achilles-heel-of-the-german-energy-transition/ https://www.eupd-research.com/en/conventional-electricity-im...
- eigenspace 2y ago
  Sorry, I had it wrong that Germany exported more to Poland than it imports, I had misremembered. However, if you look here: https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2023 https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=... you'll see that in 2023, Germany exported 3.57 TWh of power to Poland, and imported 3.05 TWh, which is not very much. For context, Germany imported 63.7 TWh of electricity in total in 2023, so the amount coming from Poland is indeed quite small.