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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by thrance on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:42PM (#42267594)
I think you included transportation in your stats: planes, cars, trucks and boats. The electrical mix in France includes only 8% from fossil fuels, of which 7% come from natural gas. The rest is mostly nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar. In that order.

France also regularly sells its surplus to neighboring countries.

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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by masklinn on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:56PM (#42267695)
> France also regularly sells its surplus to neighboring countries.

And in order to do that it has pretty massive lines to neighbours meaning it also acts as an exchange platform (for a profit) e.g. if there are strong winds it can buy electricity from an oversupplied german grid and sell it to italy.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/24h provides live views of the european electricity grids, and France is the only country which is consistently green (and often dark green aka under 50gCO2eq/kWh) without being blessed with enough hydro for most or all of its requirements (as Iceland and Norway are).

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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by elihu on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:43PM (#42269087)
Interesting to see they have data for Russia now. I think that's new.
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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by fsh on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:05PM (#42268846)
Most countries use way more primary energy for heating and transportation than for electricity generation. It would be disingenuous not to include this.
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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by RandomThoughts3 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:43PM (#42269092)
It’s fairly disingenuous to mix both actually when they don’t mingle. Especially when you consider that both heating and transportation are going in the direction of using more electricity which is actually favorable to the French choice.
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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by globular-toast on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:10AM (#42271618)
Energy is energy. Why make a special category for heating and transport?
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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by gmueckl on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:01AM (#42274728)
It's because the energy sources, technical implementation and uses are so vastly different between the power grid, heating and transportation.
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