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[-] OriginalUsername@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few errors

  • 130TWh is the final electricity consumption, not the generation. Since Sweden is a big net exporter of electricity, there is a big difference
  • I'm not sure what macrotrends refers to by "Fossil fuel consumption", but it's pobably referring to raw energy rather than electricity (which doesnt consider conversion efficiency)
  • In reality, sweden uses almost no fossil fuels in its electricity mix, and that is in large part due to nuclear
  • KWh and KW, not KW and KW/h
  • In your calculations you failed to account for capacity factors. Wind plants have average capacity factors of about 42% in sweden, so the capacity would need to be over double the consumption, even ignoring the variability of consumption and production

Nevertheless, I do agree that Sweden doesn't need more nuclear. It already generates some of the cleanest electricity in the world and I'd imagine fossil fuels are really only used for peak load.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the corrections!

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