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France has higher prices than several EU countries. Spain in particular has low prices thanks to their solar and wind, and the Nordics thanks to hydro.
by nickserv 3mo ago
France has higher prices than several EU countries.
Spain in particular has low prices thanks to their solar and wind, and the Nordics thanks to hydro.
- pfdietz 3mo agoAnd the French cannot seem to replicate the putatively low price they paid for their first nuclear rollout.
- consensus1 3mo agoSpain has 3x the emissions intensity of France. The Nordics (some of them) have energy that is cheap and clean like France. That's because they have base load that doesn't emit CO2 like France.
- Glawen 3mo agoAnd the germanics have higher price than France, which can benefit from importing cheap spanish power (when not in outage) and reselling it at 5x to germanic countries.
- Moldoteck 3mo agoSpain has better weather, more hydro, cheap African gas and still nuclear. And emissions are worse