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Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%
(www.pv-magazine.com)
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The sum of those percentages is 87.5%. So what's the rest, maybe import from France or Norway?
There's a joke in there about the power of hot air but I'm not confident enough in my knowledge of British politics to make it
Yes it's imports. Norway / France and Netherlands mainly.
Well, we've a single cable coming over from France that makes up about 3% (I think) of our total electricity supply. So "French Nuclear" should be a bigger entry in that table than coal, solar, hydro or bio. That's not the only import, either, so it's not completely impractical for the missing percentages to be imports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel
There are other cables as well. One of them runs through the chunnel. The UK regularly gets upto 10% of its supply from France (seasonal, time, cost dependant)