Portugal hit 80% renewable electricity in January, saving €703 million on bills, securing the grid and spurring green projects—benefiting residents nationwide.
They are expensive if you don’t build the grid to transfer the power to where it is needed. Then if some part of the country has a lot more than the other part you get to stop the renewables in one part and run Gas and Coal Power in the other to make up for. So younger to pay it twice.
You know, exactly how the CXU fucked it up in Germany.
It is not like grid is free. Grid costs a lot. Cables cost a lot. Transformers cost a lot. Transferring power incur in loss. Furthermore, if it is windy in Denmark, probably is windy also in Germany. While grid connections are indeed important, diversification of energy sources and storage are even better.
In 2024 not it did cost 554 Mio€ for powering down solar and wind, while they were usable.
Meanwhile in Bavaria the CSU is sabotaging the creation oft Wind power for example. In 2023 they stated they want to build 1000 new wind power plants. In 3 years they managed 30. In BW, which is half as big, it was 2024 27. That same year 154 plants went online in NRW.
Yeah, we need a better grid. But it would help if more renewable sources would be build every where. That would also reduce the cost.
Actually the Iberian peninsula countries - Spain and Portugal - want to sell their excess of Renewable to the rest of Europe, but France keeps blocking creating a connection for that throught their territory as it would negativelly impact the price they get selling their Nucleal power.
It would make a lot of sense to have an Europe-wide high capacity grid across large enough distances that it averaged out a lot of the local weather factors, but some countries are blocking it to maintain the profits of their own private electric power businesses.
They are expensive if you don’t build the grid to transfer the power to where it is needed. Then if some part of the country has a lot more than the other part you get to stop the renewables in one part and run Gas and Coal Power in the other to make up for. So younger to pay it twice.
You know, exactly how the CXU fucked it up in Germany.
It is not like grid is free. Grid costs a lot. Cables cost a lot. Transformers cost a lot. Transferring power incur in loss. Furthermore, if it is windy in Denmark, probably is windy also in Germany. While grid connections are indeed important, diversification of energy sources and storage are even better.
In 2024 not it did cost 554 Mio€ for powering down solar and wind, while they were usable.
Meanwhile in Bavaria the CSU is sabotaging the creation oft Wind power for example. In 2023 they stated they want to build 1000 new wind power plants. In 3 years they managed 30. In BW, which is half as big, it was 2024 27. That same year 154 plants went online in NRW.
Yeah, we need a better grid. But it would help if more renewable sources would be build every where. That would also reduce the cost.
Actually the Iberian peninsula countries - Spain and Portugal - want to sell their excess of Renewable to the rest of Europe, but France keeps blocking creating a connection for that throught their territory as it would negativelly impact the price they get selling their Nucleal power.
It would make a lot of sense to have an Europe-wide high capacity grid across large enough distances that it averaged out a lot of the local weather factors, but some countries are blocking it to maintain the profits of their own private electric power businesses.