Looking at the data I imagine there might be some margin of error on it - Sweden is sitting at 99% carbon free electricity and France is at 98%. 40% of the carbon emissions at the time I’m looking is attributed to a bucket known as “unknown” where some assumptions are made about what that unknown-bucket contains. France also has an unknown-bucket, but reports an unknown fraction of electricity coming from it.
Both are basically rounding errors in terms of emissions though, with both countries doing quite well, at least at time of speaking.
Yes both countries are leaders ! I was not saying Sweden is emmiting too much. I’m not sure there is much to be gained anyway.
Also, note that not all low carbons are equals. Nuclear is estimated at 5g co2eq/MWh, wind 13, solar 30. Because it takes energy to build, operate, dismantle those means of production. Those numbers take into account everything from mining, concrete, uranium refinement, npp dismantlement …
This can’t be right, Sweden is still lower
On electricity map, today, 8am utc+2 France was 17gco2eq/kWh Sweden was at 24.
It varies with time ofc but no, Sweden is not always lower.
Looking at the data I imagine there might be some margin of error on it - Sweden is sitting at 99% carbon free electricity and France is at 98%. 40% of the carbon emissions at the time I’m looking is attributed to a bucket known as “unknown” where some assumptions are made about what that unknown-bucket contains. France also has an unknown-bucket, but reports an unknown fraction of electricity coming from it.
Both are basically rounding errors in terms of emissions though, with both countries doing quite well, at least at time of speaking.
Yes both countries are leaders ! I was not saying Sweden is emmiting too much. I’m not sure there is much to be gained anyway.
Also, note that not all low carbons are equals. Nuclear is estimated at 5g co2eq/MWh, wind 13, solar 30. Because it takes energy to build, operate, dismantle those means of production. Those numbers take into account everything from mining, concrete, uranium refinement, npp dismantlement …