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0 pointsdijit5y ago0 comments

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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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...

dijitOP5y ago

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)

Gwypaas5y ago

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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Gwypaas5y ago

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

dijitOP5y ago

Unfortunately the Swedish authority wants to look good so their promotional materials show domestic and only pay lip service to imports.

Gwypaas5y ago

Page 12, same document. Import, export and net for the year 2019 to all those countries. This isn't some kind of conspiracy.

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