CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agoThe UK no longer uses coal poweryoutube.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down10
arrow-up1109arrow-down1external-linkThe UK no longer uses coal poweryoutube.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareKissaki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months ago The remainder gets imported 32,1+26,6+14,8+7+5,1+1,4+1,1 = 88,1 So 11,9 % gets/got imported?
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoYes. Imports/exports are as follows: France, 7.6% Norway, 3.3% Belgium, 1.5% Denmark, 0.9% Netherlands, 0.6% Ireland, -1.9% There’s a remaining 0.1%, which comes from pumped energy storage.
minus-squarethanksforallthefish@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoThe fact that the majority of power imports is are from France and Norway is also good news as they both have very high zero carbon generation (nuclear and hydro respectively)
minus-squareaddie@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoPossible. This bad boy makes up 5% of the UK power supply by itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel
32,1+26,6+14,8+7+5,1+1,4+1,1 = 88,1So 11,9 % gets/got imported?
Yes. Imports/exports are as follows:
France, 7.6%
Norway, 3.3%
Belgium, 1.5%
Denmark, 0.9%
Netherlands, 0.6%
Ireland, -1.9%
There’s a remaining 0.1%, which comes from pumped energy storage.
The fact that the majority of power imports
isare from France and Norway is also good news as they both have very high zero carbon generation (nuclear and hydro respectively)Possible. This bad boy makes up 5% of the UK power supply by itself:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel