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When Google was going hard on deploying renewables they stressed "additionality". They didn't want to just buy clean hydro that already existed, or renewables
by ZeroGravitas 6d ago
When Google was going hard on deploying renewables they stressed "additionality".
They didn't want to just buy clean hydro that already existed, or renewables that were going to get built anyway without their money, they wanted to be sure that their investment was growing the amount of clean energy available.
I'm hoping they have some justification like this for buying existing nuclear. They appear to be claiming that it would shut if they didn't pay in advance.
A similar deal by Amazon got shot down in America because the regulators realised it was shifting costs onto other grid users.
You'd assume that Finnish regulators are better than American regulators, but I’d like to see some evidence of that.
- an77i 5d agoFinnish regulators are not better than American counterparts. This deal long time cost will be most likely paid by us common folk. It is common trend currently here in Finland due to economic situations that data centers can basically get cheap electricity deals and common folks pay it. I feel this will not end well… if we don’t continue building nuclear. I hope this will force us to continue building asap.