Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
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Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#2Easy to blame someone else. None of this is new, she's had more than enough time to compensate and Sweden is in the EU energy market by choice.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#3How hard it is to build North South transfer capacity? I mean intra-Sweden capacity. My understanding is that Finland can buy power from the north and then move it to south effectively... And we don't even produce that power...
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#4Easy to blame someone else. None of this is new, she's had more than enough time to compensate and Sweden is in the EU energy market by choice.
It is still true what she says. Having an interconnected electricity system is problematic when countries like Germany misbehave by having a horrible energy politics.
That said, it would had been better in Sweden if they hadn't phased out nuclear too! There is a electricity shortage in south of Sweden where industries are denied establishing new initiatives.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#5How hard it is to build North South transfer capacity? I mean intra-Sweden capacity. My understanding is that Finland can buy power from the north and then move it to south effectively... And we don't even produce that power...
Probably requires many billions of investment that somebody has to budget for and pay for.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#6Would have been a great opportunity to make money then by exporting their own nuclear power... if they hadn't shut a bunch of it down.
Then they could have chosen to refund their own consumers, if that's what they wanted.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#7Easy to blame someone else. None of this is new, she's had more than enough time to compensate and Sweden is in the EU energy market by choice.
And they can opt out by choice. Bitter infighting ensues in the russian gas addict frack den.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#8Easy to blame someone else. None of this is new, she's had more than enough time to compensate and Sweden is in the EU energy market by choice.
In a similar vein it’s been absolutely nauseating hearing borderline corrupt Conservatives in the UK moaning at every opportunity at the state of the country and its institutions and the idealogical and deliberate decline and underfunding of all of it (including energy).
Despite it being entirely their doing from almost 15 years of the Conservative government.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#9Easy to blame someone else. None of this is new, she's had more than enough time to compensate and Sweden is in the EU energy market by choice.
But the Swedish government is taking blame for local shutdowns. The previous day her boss (PM) said so. The 4th paragraph reads:
"“I realise that nobody is happy when I say that ‘if we hadn't shut down half of nuclear power, we wouldn't have these problems’. But it's true and it needs to be said.”, Kristersson said, referring to the previous Social Democrat-Greens coalition closing several nuclear reactors between 2019 and 2020 as part of a policy shift towards greater reliance on renewable energy sources."
The Swedish Green coalition before them also did shutdowns like the German greens did. And now they have to suffer the consequences.
Note that a lot of people are very shortsighted and might think "energy prices were better with the previous greens/labour/etc". They need to be reminded the causes of the crisis.
Re: Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
#10Think must people agree it was a mistake but blaming infra country difference on another country seems a bit much