Countries displaying an horizontal cloud are low
emissions no matter the amount of electricity
production. High variations in electricity production
(for instance in France) are explainable by electric
heating in winter. Also, 2022 was the year France
did scheduled repairs on its nuclear reactors (which
means the cloud is larger on the left than for any
other year).
Countries with a vertical cloud are highly dependent
on weather conditions, but not very dependent on
temperatures. For instance, Poland uses gas for
heating, which means winter and summer hours
aren’t very different.
Countries with a potato cloud have an electricity
production very dependent both on weather and
temperature variations. Their relatively low CO2
emissions hours are negated by the high CO2
emissions ones.
Finally, France being the largest
exporter of electricity means it routinely prevents
neighboring countries from going higher in terms of C02 intensity of production (while keeping the same
low c02 intensity of production itself). Which is
also true for Scandinavia and Switzerland, with
their mix of nuclear and hydro supplying the more
weather-dependent countries
No_Zombie2021 on
I am sorry Germany, but you are smearing brown all over the place.
verraeteros_ on
Is this going to be a daily repost in 2025 as well?
magdogg_sweden on
The swiss producing negative energy?=)
Bayo77 on
How much does this data differ if we pick a different year when not suddenly the whole natural gas flow to europe got fked up?
justapolishperson on
POLAND NUMBER 1 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱
HighDeltaVee on
2022 is laughably out of date at this point.
German CO2 dropped over 10% from 2022 to 2023, and another ~8% from 2023 to the end of 2024.
temss_ on
France on its highest production hours had lower emissions than Germany had on its lowest hours of production. Quite embarrasing.
SKIFFLEPIGEON on
I keep forgetting UK isn’t in Europe any more 🙁
FMSV0 on
Portugal emits CO2 without producing electricity? Don’t get this chart
shaj_hulud on
How is France that clean ?
John_Helldiver1 on
POLSKA GUROMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok-Sentence-8542 on
Is there a new start for 2024? Actually any year since 2017?
ANDR0iD_13 on
Nuclear France lets go.
Ok_Bid_3824 on
France is so based
Effective_Lazy69 on
Tax chineses EV
Nappev on
Tldr; poland is innefficient but france is, france uses nuclear and poland uses coal. Those at the bottom left uses mostly renewables.
AdSufficient7791 on
Only a few countries can generate from hydro 😴
France is much more impressive.
Curiousguy7233 on
nuclear energy is the best energy change my mind
NoGravitasForSure on
In that year, Germany had to export large amounts of “dirty” electricity to France because of technical problems with the French NPPs. In the diagram, this is shown as “German” electricity because the diagram shows production, not usage. Neat trick.
Repulsive_Mail9497 on
i invite anti nuclear people here.
SweetDissonance0666 on
This visualization is bad and manipulative. No normalization at all. What it even means? Countries with smaller area / less people are better? What these dots means?.. yeah, I understand the describtion, but it is weird sampling of data for this type of plot. It is nonsense that only looks interesting but it does not.
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##How to read the chart:
Countries displaying an horizontal cloud are low
emissions no matter the amount of electricity
production. High variations in electricity production
(for instance in France) are explainable by electric
heating in winter. Also, 2022 was the year France
did scheduled repairs on its nuclear reactors (which
means the cloud is larger on the left than for any
other year).
Countries with a vertical cloud are highly dependent
on weather conditions, but not very dependent on
temperatures. For instance, Poland uses gas for
heating, which means winter and summer hours
aren’t very different.
Countries with a potato cloud have an electricity
production very dependent both on weather and
temperature variations. Their relatively low CO2
emissions hours are negated by the high CO2
emissions ones.
Finally, France being the largest
exporter of electricity means it routinely prevents
neighboring countries from going higher in terms of C02 intensity of production (while keeping the same
low c02 intensity of production itself). Which is
also true for Scandinavia and Switzerland, with
their mix of nuclear and hydro supplying the more
weather-dependent countries
I am sorry Germany, but you are smearing brown all over the place.
Is this going to be a daily repost in 2025 as well?
The swiss producing negative energy?=)
How much does this data differ if we pick a different year when not suddenly the whole natural gas flow to europe got fked up?
POLAND NUMBER 1 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱
2022 is laughably out of date at this point.
German CO2 dropped over 10% from 2022 to 2023, and another ~8% from 2023 to the end of 2024.
France on its highest production hours had lower emissions than Germany had on its lowest hours of production. Quite embarrasing.
I keep forgetting UK isn’t in Europe any more 🙁
Portugal emits CO2 without producing electricity? Don’t get this chart
How is France that clean ?
POLSKA GUROMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!
Is there a new start for 2024? Actually any year since 2017?
Nuclear France lets go.
France is so based
Tax chineses EV
Tldr; poland is innefficient but france is, france uses nuclear and poland uses coal. Those at the bottom left uses mostly renewables.
Only a few countries can generate from hydro 😴
France is much more impressive.
nuclear energy is the best energy change my mind
In that year, Germany had to export large amounts of “dirty” electricity to France because of technical problems with the French NPPs. In the diagram, this is shown as “German” electricity because the diagram shows production, not usage. Neat trick.
i invite anti nuclear people here.
This visualization is bad and manipulative. No normalization at all. What it even means? Countries with smaller area / less people are better? What these dots means?.. yeah, I understand the describtion, but it is weird sampling of data for this type of plot. It is nonsense that only looks interesting but it does not.