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Wind power can’t fill Sweden’s nuclear energy gap

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Ringhals nuclear power site, Sweden [image credit: Vattenfall]

Another example of the obvious inadequacy of part-time unpredictable wind power, and its consequencies for countries that insist on pursuing it. Relying on imports to avoid power shortages can’t be ideal for any country.
H/T The GWPF/Reuters

Sweden will have to import more electricity during winter as the country, a net power exporter to the rest of Europe, shifts from nuclear to wind, its grid operator said.

Last winter, the first since the closure of its Oskarshamn 1 reactor, stretched Sweden’s resources as peak consumption rose by 800 megawatt (MW), triggering start-up procedures in its reserve energy plants.

Sweden’s power balance will deteriorate further from next winter, the country will need imports and the situation will become worse with two more of its reactors closing by 2020, state-grid Svenska Kraftnat (SVK) said in a report on Monday.

“For next winter (if it’s a normal winter) we expect Sweden to (need to) import 400 MW more than it exports during the hour with the highest consumption,” SVK’s electricity system analyst Erik Hellstrom, and the author of the report, told Reuters.

Hellstrom said that if the coming winter is a “10-year winter” (colder than a normal winter), Sweden’s imports will rise by as much as 1,500 MW more than it exports in the hour with the highest consumption.

Of Sweden’s eight remaining nuclear reactors, two will close soon, Ringhals 2 in 2019 and Ringhals 1 the year after, cutting a combined production of 1,700 MW from its power system, 40 percent of which is nuclear output-dependent.

Source: GRID OPERATOR WARNS WIND WILL NOT FILL SWEDEN’S NUCLEAR GAP IN WINTER


Source: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/wind-power-cant-fill-swedens-nuclear-energy-gap/


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