#electricity prices are spiking this evening in Europe at over 25 Eurocents/kWh because it's been a hot day with a lot of industrial & residential AC demand, but there hasn't been very much sun, and the wind isn't especially enthusiastic either... And what do you do then?
Well, #Germany runs it's coal power on full blast, over 10 Megawatts of #energy coming from burning coal. That's how they keep the lights on after sunset. Gas power plants are running too, burning away at the proscribed Russian NatGas...
Meanwhile, French, Swedish and Finnish #Nuclear power and hydropower is happily supplying consumers in neighbouring countries.
Yes, that means Germany of course... Burning coal at home, but importing gigawatts of French nuclear electricity.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
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