On April 1st, 2025, Finland officially closed the Salmisaari coal power plant in Helsinki, marking an essential moment in the country’s energy history
By doing this, Finland lowered its reliance on coal for power generation to below 1%, an achievement that reached four years ahead of schedule.
The closure is part of other efforts by the Finnish government to phase out coal completely by 2029, transitioning to cleaner and more sustainable energy sources, primarily wind power.
I wish the rest of the world would do that. Instead, some of us, not naming any names here, are now trying to speed run climate change.
Even if you don’t believe in climate change, closing coal plants is good. You don’t need years worth of data to see the smog go away.
But but my president said it’s good, creates jobs or something and and wind mills kills birds!
Meh, the politicians can say whatever they want. The Market talks a lot louder.
Coal production in the United States is down 60% from it’s peak in 2008 (1172 vs 526). In that same time frame Wind Power is up from 55 Tw/h to 425Tw/h and Solar Power is up from 864Gw/h to 164,502Gw/h.
We still have a long ways to go but there’s been massive changes in the last 15 years.
On the reasonable side of the balance sheet, Australia is moving so fast installing big batteries that CATL has named one of their products after the Australian company they’re supplying batteries to
Also we just had a study published and publicised for efficient pumped hydro locations near each population centre (though one state missed it and approved development of a pair of pumped hydro reservoirs in a location the study ranked poorly, leading to further advertising of the study and how its chosen site near the approved one would have been a tenth the cost)
Rooftop solar is so popular that grid demand in one of our two large cities was at an all time low recently
All in all it’s pretty promising here
Though just like America, a change in the party in charge can wreck a lot of the progress
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