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[–] bazsy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The sum of those percentages is 87.5%. So what's the rest, maybe import from France or Norway?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] makingrain@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

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)

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes it's imports. Norway / France and Netherlands mainly.