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by input_sh 980 days ago
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.
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foobarian 980 days ago
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

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Gare 980 days ago
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.
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eigenspace 980 days ago
The carbon intensity of imported electricity is accounted for on this map.
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input_sh 980 days ago
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.
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eigenspace 980 days ago
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.

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input_sh 980 days ago
> 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.

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