It’s a waste spending time and money on nuclear today. Building a nuclear plant takes a decade and costs more than renewables. Better to go all in on renewable sources, especially wind and solar power.
Sweden, like many other countries, already experience a huge interest in, and investments and production of renewables. Why not build on that? It’s less expensive, has faster time to market, and results in a more resilient power grid when large single points of failure can be avoided.
What is sorely needed in Sweden is making it easier to getting approval for building wind turbines, especially at sea where noise and light pollution is a non-issue, and power grid improvements to support distribution from these new production sites. One area where government support could be really useful is investing in large scale energy storage to be able to deal with peak load.
The power grid and stockage capacity aren’t quite ready yet for 100% renewable.
There’s already a 5 year backlog (and growing) to connect new renewable projects and it’s only going to get harder to manage as share of intermittent renewable increase.
Baseload power will be needed for a long time to complement intermittent renewable, better nuclear than coal and gas.
It’s a waste spending time and money on nuclear today. Building a nuclear plant takes a decade and costs more than renewables. Better to go all in on renewable sources, especially wind and solar power.
Sweden, like many other countries, already experience a huge interest in, and investments and production of renewables. Why not build on that? It’s less expensive, has faster time to market, and results in a more resilient power grid when large single points of failure can be avoided.
What is sorely needed in Sweden is making it easier to getting approval for building wind turbines, especially at sea where noise and light pollution is a non-issue, and power grid improvements to support distribution from these new production sites. One area where government support could be really useful is investing in large scale energy storage to be able to deal with peak load.
The power grid and stockage capacity aren’t quite ready yet for 100% renewable. There’s already a 5 year backlog (and growing) to connect new renewable projects and it’s only going to get harder to manage as share of intermittent renewable increase.
Baseload power will be needed for a long time to complement intermittent renewable, better nuclear than coal and gas.