[drno123]

Electricity production in Croatia is already much “greener” than the EU average: approximately 30% is generated from fossil fuels (10% coal, 20% gas). Remaining is mostly hydro, with significant amount produced from wind and 15-20 % is nuclear.

[eigenspace]

No, they're not even close to being better than the EU average. Over the last 12 months, the only EU countries I can find with dirtier electricity in terms of CO2-equivalent emissions were Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

Source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/HR

Germany is only worse them in emissions because they temporarily boosted coal usage last winter to ease gas supply constraints. All of that added coal capacity is now back offline, and it's looking like they should be able to keep it offline this winter, but we'll have to see.

[input_sh]

Note that the nuclear power plant parent's talking about is located in Slovenia, but it was built as a joint venture during Yugoslavia and it remained that way, it's co-owned by the two countries.

So nuclear's definitely more than zero that this map shows, but it's technically imported from Slovenia, though not really. It's one of those edge cases you can't fit neatly on a map.

[foobarian]

I was wondering how the ownership changed after the breakup. At least it was famous enough to get attention from the local SNL crew :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r4P_rJNad4

[Gare]

It didn't. 50% GEN energija (Slovenian state-owned company), 50% HEP (Croatian state-owned company). But there was a dispute in the 90's and Slovenian attempt to gain 100% control, which fortunately failed.

[eigenspace]

The carbon intensity of imported electricity is accounted for on this map.

[input_sh]

No it's not. Go to consumption in the last 24h and you'll see a question mark for nuclear, which is different than 0% for geothermal, implying they don't have that data.

[eigenspace]

Yes it is, go to consumption in the last 24h and look at the listed electricity trading partners. They're currently net-exporting electricity to Slovenia. Each of the electricity trading partners is labelled by an amount, and a CO2 intensity.

There's also a graph for the origin of electricity that's available in the 24 hour view that shows different origin countries mixed in with different fuel sources.

[input_sh]

> Each of the electricity trading partners is labelled by an amount, and a CO2 intensity.

Except it's absolutely not. As in the source they use (ENTSO-E) absolutely has no notion of energy sources. I can also see that the other source they've listed for Croatia is offline, and according to Wayback that been the case for at least a year. In conclusion, carbon intensity per 24h might as well be pulled out of their asses because they, and I can't stress this enough, don't have that data.

Meanwhile, the website of the nuclear power plant, which is again co-owned by Croatian state-owned electricity company, tells me it's responsible for 16% of Croatia's annual electricity usage, while this website tells me it's zero. Gee, I wonder which of the two is more of an authoritative source.

Seriously, stop trying to correct someone that's local to the area and knows a bit more about the situation than what you've learned in the past 20 min via your shitty global web project that has to take a shit ton of shortcuts in order not to be empty.

[drno123]

You are sharing current data from this week. The annual average carbon intensity for EU27 is 296 gCO2eq/kWh. The annual average for Croatia is 246 gCO2eq/kWh, and as I wrote, it is below EU average.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291750/carbon-intensity....

[thebruce87m]

> Meanwhile, Sweden's power sector was the least carbon-intensive in the EU, with 45 gCO₂/kWh.

Can anyone see where Scotland sits? Our live snapshot current shows 7 gCO₂/kWh:

https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/

[tuukkah]

41 gCO₂/kWh in 2019 says this goverment report: https://www.gov.scot/publications/climate-change-plan-monito...

[tuukkah]

Now that the wind has stopped, it shows 123 gCO₂/kWh.

[thebruce87m]

Interesting, I’ve never seen our gas usage so high. Must be calm there - I’m in Spain at the moment so I can’t tell.

[eigenspace]

The time period can't be specified in the link unfortunately. But if you click on the year long button, you can compare to other counties. The average over the last year that I see for Croatia is 366 gCO2eq/kWh.

It's alarming to see how much this diverges from the numbers from Statistica.

[tuukkah]

The 366 is for the past 12 months. If you scroll back to January (or December?), you can see the average for 2022, which it shows as 266. Perhaps 2023 has been a difficult year?

EDIT: I misunderstood the UI. If I click "6 years", it shows 301 for 2022. Also, it claims 0 consumption of nuclear, which must be wrong given the information about the nuclear plant above.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

> Germany is only worse them in emissions because they temporarily boosted coal usage last winter to ease gas supply constraints.

That and they closed nuclear power plants

[eigenspace]

Closing the nuclear power plants was an idiotic decision on Germany's part, but it wasn't particularly relevant to the spike of coal usage (rather it causes a higher base amount of coal usage). The last nuclear power plants were extended through the winter, and decomissioned in April 2023, instead of their originally planned closure before the winter of 2022.

Coal usage has continued to fall despite the closure of the nuclear power plants (though obviously it'd fall even faster if they had kept them open).

[iSnow]

On the other hand, a lot of coal-fired plants had to be brought back online because many more than usual of France's nuclear power plants were offline during winter, so Germany had to burn coal to make up for their shortfall.