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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by Gwypaas on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:57PM (#26605991)
Where are Sweden, which does not have any coal plants and is a net exporter of energy replace nuclear with coal?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

That claim is simply plain misinformation.

For the import vs export of energy you find that here:

http://media.matochklimat.nu/2021/02/image1.jpg

Sweden import much more coal energy when Barsebäck and Ringhals was up and running.

Source for graph: http://matochklimat.nu/analys-svensk-el-fortsatter-att-trang...

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by dijit on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:31PM (#26606193)
Sweden imports energy from countries which use coal plants.

The Swedish ethos is “we are green. It was the other guys!”

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by Gwypaas on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:01PM (#26606406)
Can you show me a source for your claim that it has increased? Here's another graph for the energy mix over time, with coal not changing at all. This time from the government energy agency. See page 5.

http://energimyndigheten.a-w2m.se/FolderContents.mvc/Downloa...

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by dijit on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:25PM (#26606562)
Unfortunately the Swedish authority wants to look good so their promotional materials show domestic and only pay lip service to imports.

If you follow the flow from: https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/ you see that most of those countries primarily generate electricity using Oil, Gas and especially coal. (Latvia, Lithuania and to a lesser extent: Estonia)

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by Gwypaas on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:36PM (#26606633)
Page 12, same document. Import, export and net for the year 2019 to all those countries. This isn't some kind of conspiracy.

Some import from Denmark and Norway. Negligible from Poland, Germany, Lithuania. Net is export to all, which means Swedish clean power is actually displacing dirtier sources, except in Norway which is full on hydro.

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