Electricity production in Croatia is already much “greener” than the EU average: approximately 30% is generated from fossil fuels (10% coal, 20% gas). Remaining is mostly hydro, with significant amount produced from wind and 15-20 % is nuclear.
No, they're not even close to being better than the EU average. Over the last 12 months, the only EU countries I can find with dirtier electricity in terms of CO2-equivalent emissions were Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
Germany is only worse them in emissions because they temporarily boosted coal usage last winter to ease gas supply constraints. All of that added coal capacity is now back offline, and it's looking like they should be able to keep it offline this winter, but we'll have to see.
Note that the nuclear power plant parent's talking about is located in Slovenia, but it was built as a joint venture during Yugoslavia and it remained that way, it's co-owned by the two countries.
So nuclear's definitely more than zero that this map shows, but it's technically imported from Slovenia, though not really. It's one of those edge cases you can't fit neatly on a map.
You are sharing current data from this week. The annual average carbon intensity for EU27 is 296 gCO2eq/kWh. The annual average for Croatia is 246 gCO2eq/kWh, and as I wrote, it is below EU average.
eigenspace|2 years ago
Source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/HR
Germany is only worse them in emissions because they temporarily boosted coal usage last winter to ease gas supply constraints. All of that added coal capacity is now back offline, and it's looking like they should be able to keep it offline this winter, but we'll have to see.
input_sh|2 years ago
So nuclear's definitely more than zero that this map shows, but it's technically imported from Slovenia, though not really. It's one of those edge cases you can't fit neatly on a map.
drno123|2 years ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291750/carbon-intensity....
RcouF1uZ4gsC|2 years ago
That and they closed nuclear power plants