Sweden tells Germany: Reform your electricity market for power cable approval
Sweden tells Germany: Reform your electricity market for power cable approval
Sweden has gestured its willingness to approve the Hansa PowerBridge project, a 700-megawatt power cable connecting southern Sweden to Germany.
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However, regional price disparities persist due to weak transmission links between Sweden’s north – home to its vast hydropower resources – and the more industrialised south.
Blaming Germany for their own inaptitude, as you would expect from far right Morons
(To be fair we have the Same Problem in Germany with NIMBYs and Powerlines)
I mean, at WORST they're hypocrites making an otherwise excellent point.
At best they're already aware of and dealing with their own grid problems, meaning that there's no hypocrisy 🤷
Bush is a fucktard, but so is the German energy policy.
NIMBYs and Powerlines
That's like half-true. Plenty of NIMBYs who said "bury that shit we're a vacation spot", commence companies whining about cost and misrepresenting the position of opponents to deflect blame.
Germany's planning law does seem to be designed specifically to piss off the maximum amount of people. You need to inform early, before you've even decided on e.g. the route, so that you're aware about conflict points so you can plan around them. Also figures that telling people "we've considered these 10 alternatives and don't see any way around this particular nasty point, sorry" gets you a different reaction than "we've considered nothing and are out of alternatives".
Every Village thinks it's a wonderful Holiday destination, burying the lines IS costly and inefficient and we pay all for it with interest through the Network Fees.
We have Transmission lines Here too, and it's still a very liveable Environment.
Yes it's NIMBYism
Plenty of villages with economies which right-out rely on tourism, and plenty of space around those villages. As said: Many of those conflicts could have been avoided by collecting feedback before deciding on a route.
Also: Would you rather pay more network fees or more for your electricity because insufficient interconnections cause price spikes on the local spot market? Burying a cable is a one-time investment, paying premium prices for electricity is a recurring cost.
All I'm saying is that "Oh those evil NIMBYs" is a cop-out, if you plan and execute things properly you get YIMBYs. A master carpenter doesn't blame their tools, a master planner doesn't blame the population.