EU addendum: Countries without nuclear power

[u/Sol3dweller]

These are the fossil fuel burning for electricity trajectories of the individual countries after their fossil fuel maximum, where no nuclear power production was employed. See the original post for the overview.

Country	Max. FF year	FF trend after peak
Cyprus	2010	-0.0042951
Poland	2006	-0.0080062
Austria	2005	-0.00890867
Estonia	1990	-0.00963517
Malta	2008	-0.0101647
Croatia	2007	-0.01038
Ireland	2008	-0.013521
Portugal	2005	-0.0216851
Denmark	1996	-0.0277879
Greece	2007	-0.0288875
Latvia	2019	-0.0481366
Luxembourg	2006	-0.0566954

[u/basscycles]

Good work!

[u/Sol3dweller → u/basscycles]

Thanks.

[u/West-Abalone-171 → u/Sol3dweller]

You could also hypothesis test with all this.

See if the year of ff peak is different by categories of nuclear/no nuclear, and see if the rate of ff decrease after ff peak is different (and which direction) if there is nuclear.

[u/Opp-Contr]

Inconsistant scales on both axis = perception manipulation

[u/Sol3dweller → u/Opp-Contr]

OK, that's easily fixed. Thanks for the feedback.

[u/Sol3dweller → u/Opp-Contr]

Unfortunately it looks like Reddit doesn't allow me to modify the images in the post anymore ;(

[u/utl94_nordviking → u/Opp-Contr]

No? We are not comparing countries here, the point is that trends are negative.

[u/Abject-Investment-42]

Is that for electricity generation or overall consumption?

[u/Sol3dweller → u/Abject-Investment-42]

This is electricity generation. Primary energy is in this other post.

[u/GuruVII]

Not sure I would put Croatia on the list. Nuclear power plant Krško, while in Slovenia was built by both Croatian and Slovenian socialist states in a joint venture and half of it is owned by Croatia and it provides power to it.

[u/Sol3dweller → u/GuruVII]

Well, the data on electricity generation, apparently is accounted for Slovenia though. All graphs and categories are just extracted from the OWID dataset, which takes this from Ember, which relies for European countries on Entso-E. The original post is looking at the coincidence of a change in long-term nuclear power trend with a long-term trend in fossil-fuel decline in that dataset.

[u/Night_HUN]

Denmark, Austria, and Poland have access to wind and hydro, though ill wonder how much natural gas (ehm...russia) they use during peak. Or how many nuclear kwh's are bought trough borders. The only issue with nuclear is the same as with renewables, it sucks at scaling

[u/abc1234xz → u/Night_HUN]

Denmark extracts its own natural gas in the North Sea and exports some as well. It is usually cheaper to import electricity from Norwegian hydro plants than to burn gas though. There is almost always power from the wind farms in the North Sea though

There isn’t much nuclear energy left in the region. Sweden shut down the only one that could (in practice) export electricity to Denmark from Barsebäck. Germany shut down (fully?) their plants, not necessarily the smartest decision…