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by Retric 1433 days ago
Finland’s low population density means the amount of economically viable wind is more than enough to meet annual power demand.

Production increased from 2.3 TWH in 2015 to 7.8 TWH in 2020, and capacity keeps increasing jumping from 2.3GW in 2020 to 3.3GW in 2021. And that recent growth has been without subsides.

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It's so low density people can even blow from their mouth to wind turbine to be self sustainable. You can't just install a turbine and call it solved.
The point was the resource is available and cheaper than any alternative, not that they are actually going to say replace everything else.

Wind really scales best with hydro as you only get so much rain per year, but you have a great deal of flexibility when you release it. As Finland has a great deal of hydro they can make use of plenty of wind.