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Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years

Posted by samzenpus on from the cleaning-the-system dept.

merbs writes "Earlier this year, Denmark's leadership announced that the nation would run entirely on renewable power by 2050. Wind, solar, and biomass would be ramped up while coal and gas are phased out. Now Denmark has gone even further, and plans to end coal by 2025.

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  1. Breaking the stranglehold of other countries by TWX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Russia has demonstrated that it is unwilling to engage in above-board transactions for their fuel exports. It is in every country's national interest to reduce dependency on imports when they can neither control the supply nor rely on the supplier to operate as a business rather than as a belligerent nation. If anything, Russia's recent behavior has reinforced this for Europe, and given the Europeans incentive to get off of Russia's exports.

    It's a shame that Denmark can't get off of natural gas sooner than coal.

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  2. Re:This is the future by timeOday · · Score: 4, Interesting
    But as it happens Denmark's per capita energy usage is also less than 1/2 of the US.

    And yes, at least a good chunk of that is actual, honest-to-god lifestyle differences, not just situational.

  3. Re:I don't know what they are doing to burn coal n by jopsen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Denmark pays a whopping 41 cents per kilowatt hour.....3.5 times the avg cost in the U.S.

    Do you even care about the size of your electricity bill... Mine is mainly an annoyance, it's like 10-15 USD / month.

    Also note, very few people in Denmark uses electric heating as you can get hot water from centralized production into your home (not clean only for use in radiators). My parents gets their heating from a power plant 20km away.
    Also buildings have strict isolation requirements, and incandescent bulbs have been banned through out EU (presumably you can still get them, but not through regular retail; I'm not sure).

  4. Re:So, they will become coal-free? by Harlequin80 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also you share a really big land border with the biggest consumer nation in the world. If you build something good in Canada you can be selling it in the US for the price of a truck shipment.

    If you build something good in Australia it has a really really really long way to go before it can be consumed in the US.

    There is a reason why we produce large quantities or iron ore, copper, bauxite, coal, uranium, lead, zinc, and gold. It is because the primary consumers of those are close by (China and India). Brazil is Australia's biggest competitor in the floating traded iron space and Australia wins a lot of the time because we are physically closer to China.