{"id":263733,"date":"2023-06-24T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263733"},"modified":"2023-06-24T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:53:30","slug":"sweden-ditches-renewable-energy-targets-in-latest-blow-for-unreliable-and-inefficient-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263733","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Ditches Renewable Energy Targets in Latest Blow for Unreliable and Inefficient Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0WILL JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swedish Government has ditched<\/a> its targets for \u201c100% renewable energy\u201d supply amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcing the new policy in the Swedish Parliament, the Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said: \u201cThis creates the conditions for nuclear power. We need more electricity production, we need clean electricity and we need a stable energy system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed the move<\/a>, saying the Swedish decision is \u201can important step in the right direction, implicitly acknowledging the low quality of unstable wind and solar, and is part of a general collapse of confidence in the renewable energy agenda pioneered in the Nordic countries and in Germany\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweden remains committed to \u201c100% fossil-free\u201d energy provision, but the change means it now sees nuclear power as critical to achieving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweden can \u201cafford to reject fossil fuels, relying on nuclear and hydro and biomass\u201d, Net Zero Watch suggests. But the U.K. should go further, since in \u201csubstantial industrialised economies\u2026 only a gas to nuclear pathway is viable to remain industrialised and competitive\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others have suggested that burning vast amounts of biomass i.e., wood is not really more ecologically friendly and lower-emission than burning the much more energy-dense fuels of gas and coal. Further objections to biomass and other fossil fuel alternatives include that lowering carbon dioxide emissions is not really a worthwhile goal for an individual country or globally as the potential harms of the gas are uncertain and exaggerated and the benefits overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. John Constable, Net Zero Watch\u2019s Energy Director, said that \u201cliving close to Russia focuses the mind\u201d, and the Swedish people wish to \u201cground their economy in an energy source, nuclear, that is physically sound and secure, unlike renewables which are neither\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the time being the U.K. Government continues to live in a fantasy of its own making, but we are coming to the end of the green dream,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swedish Government has\u00a0ditched\u00a0its targets for \u201c100% renewable energy\u201d supply amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":263738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819255,691818154,691818206,691818181,691818876,691818064],"class_list":["post-263733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-activism","tag-net-zero","tag-nuclear-power","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sweden","tag-windpower","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/00turbine-effondree-1.webp?fit=1250%2C704&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-16BL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":263952,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=263952","url_meta":{"origin":263733,"position":0},"title":"Sweden Deals Body Blow to EU Climate Change Agenda","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/26\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweden recently stirred the global climate conversation by overturning its green energy targets and\u00a0shifting its focus back to nuclear power.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0sdlvDoIciMxY9g-nh.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0sdlvDoIciMxY9g-nh.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0sdlvDoIciMxY9g-nh.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0sdlvDoIciMxY9g-nh.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0sdlvDoIciMxY9g-nh.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":264077,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264077","url_meta":{"origin":263733,"position":1},"title":"Sweden axes renewable energy targets, shifts back to nuclear","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/27\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"They have switched their 100% \u201crenewables\u201d target by 2045 to a 100%\u00a0fossil-free\u00a0target. 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