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For the first time, most Dutch electricity comes from renewables (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/green@lemmy.ml

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Spend 100 years building fossil fuel infrastructure

Conservatives: "Sorry, but the free market has spoken."

Spend twenty years building green infrastructure

Conservatives: "Subsidies! China! WOKE! I'm going to boycott electricity!"

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by-source?time=1997..latest&country=%7ENLD

It's crazy how Coal and Gas literally (inversely) mirrored each other, right until 2020 where Wind and Solar just took up the task of Coal

It's interesting to note that Big Oil hasn't really changed much in the Netherlands over the last 30 years, but Big Coal and big Gas was their main backbone

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That x-axis sucks

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Didn't make this graph, so not sure why it's spaced like that

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

2024?