Renewable energy in Sweden
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SWEDEN, 2015/06/07
On Monday, Sweden’s 5.5GW of wind farms contributed additional energy to the Scandinavian country’s grid than its 9.5GW of nuclear power plants, a renewable energy succcess that prompted the below tweet by the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figuerres.
As the table shared by Figueres shows, hydro (vattenkraft) was the biggest energy supplier for Sweden on June 1, followed by wind (vindkraft), nuclear (kärnkraft) and small amounts of biomass (varmekraft) and unspecified fossil fuels (ospecificerat).
