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.
We do need all kinds of energy in sweden right now. River powerplants are pretty much maximized (at least in the north). Wind is beeing built all over, but often rejected by local municipalities (don’t ask me why).
We have a serious issue with transporting energy from the north to the south, the cables are simply underdimensioned and that had pushed the prices up in the south. A looming industrial boom in the north will as of now actually lead to power shortage if that bottle neck can not be solved.
And here nuclear comes in. It’s really sad and quite dumb that several nuclear plants been shut down before their time. And it was not just an economical solution but an environmental one, the left will however not take responsibility for that decision.
Que the rights calls for new nuclear plants - which most likely will be way to expensive and won’t solve shortages in time.
EU joint energy market also drives prices in sweden well beyond reason.
In short - political decisions and indecision by several governments, have lead sweden onto a path to new nuclear instead of using existing plants as long as possible while building wind/solar in time where it’s really needed.
(I’m personally not against modern nuclear tech, although I truly hope we get fusion working at least during my lifetime)
We do need all kinds of energy in sweden right now. River powerplants are pretty much maximized (at least in the north). Wind is beeing built all over, but often rejected by local municipalities (don’t ask me why). We have a serious issue with transporting energy from the north to the south, the cables are simply underdimensioned and that had pushed the prices up in the south. A looming industrial boom in the north will as of now actually lead to power shortage if that bottle neck can not be solved. And here nuclear comes in. It’s really sad and quite dumb that several nuclear plants been shut down before their time. And it was not just an economical solution but an environmental one, the left will however not take responsibility for that decision. Que the rights calls for new nuclear plants - which most likely will be way to expensive and won’t solve shortages in time. EU joint energy market also drives prices in sweden well beyond reason. In short - political decisions and indecision by several governments, have lead sweden onto a path to new nuclear instead of using existing plants as long as possible while building wind/solar in time where it’s really needed. (I’m personally not against modern nuclear tech, although I truly hope we get fusion working at least during my lifetime)