Why does generation spike in the Summer and not the Winter when presumably it would be in higher demand?
So oil is not used to generate electricity?
Disappointing to see coal hasn’t gone down too much
Why is coal the only source that has a prominent second peak in December? On gas, it’s just a blip. I don’t think we’re using THAT many Christmas lights, are we?
Little reminder that, by FAR, coal is the biggest co2 emitter per kWh of electricity produced. It’s urgent to reduce its use if we want the planet to stay habitable in the following century. And we can see it’s not really happening. Surely we produce more renewable energy but it’s just ADDING UP to coal and gas, and not really replacing it.
I’m surprised there is no difference of summer or winter for wind/solar – or is it really the nominal capacity and not the actual produced energy?
In Finland wind produces significantly more during winter, roughly twice more! That should be visible, unless the combined solar+wind compensates this effect away as solar produces more during summer.
Media coverage should be proportional to production.
Does anyone have an idea why “Wind and Solar” looks like a staircase? It goes up sharply around February, but then stays relatively flat for the rest of the year.
It would be nice to see it broken down by country or region ?
You can thank the environmental movement for keeping nuclear so low over the last 50 years, leaving space for far more coal plants.
Nuclear should be at the top of this chart. Amazing how fear and ignorance have allowed us to destroy our planet when a carbon free dispatchable energy source has been available to us for 75 years.
Wind and solar increase but because of global demand rising as well it hasn’t made a dent in reducing coal. It’s good we haven’t had to increase coal production but we are still a long way from reducing it apparently.
![World Electricity Generation [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/oruaeldr6mgf1-1920x1024.png)
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data from [https://ember-energy.org/](https://ember-energy.org/)
matplotlib python code pretty much the same as this https://gist.github.com/cavedave/9a430d65496b1b0a4b9726f002c61005
Why does generation spike in the Summer and not the Winter when presumably it would be in higher demand?
So oil is not used to generate electricity?
Disappointing to see coal hasn’t gone down too much
Why is coal the only source that has a prominent second peak in December? On gas, it’s just a blip. I don’t think we’re using THAT many Christmas lights, are we?
Little reminder that, by FAR, coal is the biggest co2 emitter per kWh of electricity produced. It’s urgent to reduce its use if we want the planet to stay habitable in the following century. And we can see it’s not really happening. Surely we produce more renewable energy but it’s just ADDING UP to coal and gas, and not really replacing it.
I’m surprised there is no difference of summer or winter for wind/solar – or is it really the nominal capacity and not the actual produced energy?
In Finland wind produces significantly more during winter, roughly twice more! That should be visible, unless the combined solar+wind compensates this effect away as solar produces more during summer.
[https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/puheenvuoro/6OJ9HERxGl6fAmSOlyzds0](https://www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/puheenvuoro/6OJ9HERxGl6fAmSOlyzds0)
Media coverage should be proportional to production.
Does anyone have an idea why “Wind and Solar” looks like a staircase? It goes up sharply around February, but then stays relatively flat for the rest of the year.
It would be nice to see it broken down by country or region ?
You can thank the environmental movement for keeping nuclear so low over the last 50 years, leaving space for far more coal plants.
Nuclear should be at the top of this chart. Amazing how fear and ignorance have allowed us to destroy our planet when a carbon free dispatchable energy source has been available to us for 75 years.
Wind and solar increase but because of global demand rising as well it hasn’t made a dent in reducing coal. It’s good we haven’t had to increase coal production but we are still a long way from reducing it apparently.
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