Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by albertop on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:29PM
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Do you know how they are generating electricity?
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Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by sdenton4 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:33PM
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Lots of water in them fjords:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1025497/distribution-of-...
93 percent hydro, 4 percent wind, 2.5 percent thermal.
Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by runeks on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:28AM
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They aren't necessarily generating it -- sometimes they're just storing it. When we produce too much electricity from wind turbines here in Denmark, Norway buys this at a negative price (to offload the Danish grid), stores it (using pumped hydroelectric energy storage), and sells it back into the market when prices are positive again.
Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by raxxorrax on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:01AM
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Electrically that is probably pretty inefficient. No doubt that it still makes sense economically.
Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by acje on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:24AM
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I’m not aware of any pumped hydropower, but we can buy cheap and use less of the stored water when prices are low. The dams have capacity to store water on a seasonal timescale. However with shifting weather patterns and more renewables these margins may become strained. This winter we may have to import not only to handle peak loads, but also because some dams may run dry.
Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by xyproto on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:38PM
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Mostly hydroelectric. 98% renewable energy sources.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway
Re:Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
by hackerNoose on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:32PM
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Lots of cheap hydro.