A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022)

Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by Symbiote on Friday November 29, 2024 @10:21AM (#42274441)

I think this graph from Wikipedia is better, as it goes back to 1990 [1].

Renewables have increased significantly, but much of that is displacing nuclear power. The remainder, plus a small increase in natural gas, his displaced hard coal and a small amount of lignite. Presumably hard coal is more expensive.

The overall trend is coal is reducing, but it's a poor show compared to Great Britain [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_in_Great_Britain#/...

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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by masklinn on Friday November 29, 2024 @12:29PM (#42275404)

> Presumably hard coal is more expensive.

Yeah, Germany did have hard coal mines but they closed a few years back as they've gotten too deep and difficult to access to be economically viable (and it was subsidised until 2018), so Germany imports hard coal. Meanwhile germany is either #1 or #2 lignite producer.

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