[berkes]

> can you really push power from Spain to Latvia? Is it really true that total renewable power in Europe can always power the whole continent?

Both: yes. and no.

If "renewables" is only solar and wind: then certainly not. But the total mix: certainly.

And "distribution" is more than pushing electricity from Malta to Iceland (which is rather inefficient) but also "build the datacenter in malta (edit: next to the sea-cooled solar farm)" or "build that new aluminium-forge in iceland where there's a surplus (edit of free geothermal power), rather than in east-poland where it will be coal-powered".

Edit2: The entire "cost" and trans-border export/import is already in place and handled in EPEX: a free and open market for electricity: https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data