Comment by ViewTrick1002
7 hours ago
> but it's fairly built out so stable non-fossil power needs to be nuclear,
Or just gas turbines running on decarbonized fuels. The backup for the "10 year winter" can be fossil fuels. It is such a minuscule problem that it does not matter in the slightest.
It is essentially the emergency reserve we are talking about, no point wasting tens of billions in subsidies per new built nuclear reactor.
Those "10 year" winters seems to appear every year with producers falling back to burning fossil fuels to keep the grid working.
Now part of that problem is that we more or less constantly export electricity to Germany (but that was because they closed their nuclear plants).
The main problem domestically in Sweden is that 30% of current electricity generation in Sweden is nuclear, but the _newest_ plants are 40 years old, on top of that the electricity generation needs to increase, steel mills de-carbonizing, more electric cars and so on.
For a few hours leading to insignificant emissions.
> Now part of that problem is that we more or less constantly export electricity to Germany (but that was because they closed their nuclear plants).
We have previously imported way more. The problem nowadays is that carbon emissions are expensive and even more so when coming from LNG rather than pipeline from Russia.
In other words: our prices were previously more aligned with Germanys because ours were more expensive and Germanys was cheaper.
If you are Swedish, or understand Swedish following from the "we", take a look at this talk starting at 43:40 to understand where the prices are coming from:
https://play.mediaflow.com/ovp/16/88PEO8YFIF
> The main problem domestically in Sweden is that 30% of current electricity generation in Sweden is nuclear, but the _newest_ plants are 40 years old, on top of that the electricity generation needs to increase, steel mills de-carbonizing, more electric cars and so on.
And new built nuclear power won't be online until the 2040s. Are you saying that we should wait until the 2040s to decarbonize those parts of the economy rather than do it ASAP with renewables and storage?
The existing nuclear power fleet has now targetted their maintenance on operation until the 2060s, so it is not like it will disappear overnight.