Sweden’s parliament has voted to change its 100% renewable target to a 100% fossil-free target, leaving the door open for nuclear.

Sweden’s parliament has voted to change its 100% renewable target to a 100% fossil-free target, leaving the door open for nuclear.

  • medborgare@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t think any of these statements are true, in particular the “failure” and import needs you mention. Sweden has been a net exporter for most of the past years and 2022 they exported most energy of everyone in the EU: Sweden remains Europe’s largest net power exporter.

    And the current Swedish government are absolutely talking about new reactors:

    Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (M) and the Minister for Civil Defence, Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M), promise that new nuclear power will begin to be built in Sweden before 2026.

    Source: Ministrar: Påbörjar ny kärnkraft före 2026.

    They also seem to be abandoning their previously communicated plans of opening old ones:

    The Tidö agreement promises an investigation to review the possibilities for restarting the Ringhals 1 and 2 reactors.

    But an internal memorandum written by SD’s top official in the steering group for Vattenfall testifies that KD refuses.

    SD can drop the demand to restart one reactor - the party leadership is now being asked to act to save the other.

    Source: Tidö-partier i strid om Ringhals – Ebba Busch vägrar återstart (KD and Busch hold the Minister of Energy, Business, and Industry position)

    • NakedSphynxPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I admit I may be wrong regarding the plans of opening new reactors, but saying that Sweden is sufficient with its own energy production throughout the whole year and to not call the move to close down the reactors we had running a failure is just sticking ones head in the sand.

      Sweden does indeed produce and export a lot of electricity, that is not a lie, but when the cold harsh winters roll around and our own usage skyrockets we don’t produce enough to even fulfill our own needs. Knocked out over a full year we produce more than we import, 25TWh net according to Vattenfall.

      BUT:

      En elimport som ungefär motsvarar vad tre kärnkraftsreaktorer hade producerat under en timme om de var i full drift. Så stort var behovet från utlandet när efterfrågan på el var som störst den gångna vintern, enligt Svenska kraftnät. Hade inte svenskarna dragit ner på förbrukningen hade det kunnat bli kritiskt. TT/Ny teknik https://www.nyteknik.se

      Rekordstor import och sparande räddade svenskarna från elkris