Comments on: Europe’s finest: what to learn from the old world’s unsung champions of climate protection https://energytransition.org/2019/03/europes-finest-of-climate-protection/ The Global Energiewende Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Ivo Carvalho https://energytransition.org/2019/03/europes-finest-of-climate-protection/#comment-12151 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:41:21 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=19327#comment-12151 It’s unfair to give Sweden the gold medal without even mentioning the role of nuclear energy to achieve such low greenhouse gas emissions.

Nuclear energy represents around 40% of the electricity production mix and has virtually no greenhouse gas emissions.

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]]> By: James Wimberley https://energytransition.org/2019/03/europes-finest-of-climate-protection/#comment-12051 Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:53:38 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=19327#comment-12051 The unbundling of electrical generation and transmission did not originate with the EU. It was started by Margaret Thatcher in the UK in 1990, and later taken up as a European policy. For her, it was part of a broad programme of privatisation to undo a socialist legacy she saw as stultifying. It just happens to be the right thing to do in the unique circumstances of electricity, with a technical monopoly in transmission and distribution, but no reason for monopoly in generation.

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