Re:ElectricityMap – Live CO₂ emissions of electricity produc...
by krasi0 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:42AM
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How well does solar work in Poland? I mean given that the country is so far north. I would expect wind power generation to be more suitable, especially close to the sea shore.
Re:ElectricityMap – Live CO₂ emissions of electricity produc...
by Tade0 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:10AM
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Wind was growing sharply before the current administration axed it. It's still the leading renewable energy source here though - both in capacity and GWh delivered.
Recently various cronies came out of the woodwork, so there's a chance we will have some weirdly expensive (even for this source) offshore farms.
But it's likely that some of our national parks will be turned into biomass for coal plants sooner - that's something currently in the works at least.
And wholesale prices matter to investors - recently we had a large coal project shut down because with the added cost of CO2 credits the LCoE was simply too high, so nobody was willing to finance it.
you shouldn’t take Germany as a positive example for decarbonizing the electricity sector. We aren’t.
I'm not, because the UK with its shift from coal to gas+wind and increases in energy efficiency is a much better one. And also a great example how nowadays nuclear means mostly cost and time overruns.
Meanwhile France is operating on a aging fleet of nuclear reactors(35 years old on average), which hasn't increased in capacity for 20 years now. I'm not sure what's their plan when they will be forced to phase out some of the older units.
I’m very glad Poland and the Netherlands are actually planning to build nuclear power plants.
Well it's not going to happen here because these plans were a vessel for corruption from the get go.
On the other hand solar is growing because it's cheap and with two-way metering coupled with incentives homeowners have all the incentive they need to set up their own installations.