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12 days agothx.
- Belarus (2015; gas, nuclear)
- Belgium (2016; green, gas, nuclear)
- Austria (2020; green, bit of gas)
- Sweden (2020; green, nuclear)
- Portugal (2021; green, gas)
- UK (2024; green, gas)
- Slovakia (2024; nuclear, green, gas)
- Ireland (2025; green gas)
Most of the nations seem to use renewables and use gas to balance the load spikes. Few have the storage to get by without a source of balancing, nuclear is a common supplement but shouldn’t be capable of balancing since it’s so slow.
Some use so much gas it’s probably not just for balancing, namely the uk.
Sweden is probably using hydro to balance, they don’t seem to have any storage but also don’t use gas.
I would discard Slovakia. They still have installed coal capacity, and import significantly from poland which is mainly on coal.
Scale? There have been a lot of tesla cars driving for years. Last I heard, electric cars in general, and also teslas specifically, are a lot less likely to burn.
Without some usable numbers the counts above seem worthless to me.