Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
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« on: January 31, 2019, 02:49:12 PM » |
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Good.
Austria already phased out coal as part of our energy production mix in the 1990s.
Currently, about 80% of our electricity is produced with renewables such as hydro power and biomass. 0% coal and 0% nuclear energy.
But domestic production is only 40% of total consumption. There's also a lot of imports, especially gas, oil and also some coal and nuclear energy.
When combining both domestic production and imports, renewables make up some 40% (still in the top-3 in Europe), followed by gas and oil. Coal only makes up 5% and nuclear energy only 1%.
In fact, Austria could go 100% renewable, but there's a lot of resistance from locals when it comes to building new reservoirs/dams up on the mountains or wind parks ("the landscape looks fu**ed up then !").
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