Sweden's parliament on Tuesday (20 June) adopted a new energy target, giving the right-wing government the green light to push forward with plans to build new nuclear plants in a country that voted 40 years ago to phase out atomic power.
Grid-scale energy storage is not yet practical. When the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, do you want to burn gas or nuclear. Those are the choices.
Though, I suppose you could also go the German route, close your nuclear plants and then be forced to reopen coal plants due to power shortages.
Grid-scale energy storage is not yet practical. When the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, do you want to burn gas or nuclear. Those are the choices.
Though, I suppose you could also go the German route, close your nuclear plants and then be forced to reopen coal plants due to power shortages.