The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.
Well, that’s a bald-faced lie. Maybe if we were only talking about Lithuania, which does import big chunk of its energy budget from Sweden, but Estonia and Latvia generate most of their energy on their own - and according to the linked article, plan to generate even more in near future.
Context is everyting. Here’s some cold hard facts for you:
As of 00:00 on 19/07/2024:
| Country | From | % | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estonia | Finland | 37% | 358 |
| Latvia | Estonia | 33% | 325 |
| Lithuania | Sweden | 40% | 733 |
% being the overall percentage of electricity consumption.
So >1GW imported from SE/FI out of ~4GW total in the Baltics is imported from countries with 40-50% nuclear baseload.
source https://electricitymaps.com/
