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> I live in Sweden with 90+% of renewable electricity generation

Except sweden isn't self sufficient at all with electricity… Can I really say that I'm 100% renewable if I have a tiny solar panel at home, and for the rest I use power from somewhere else?

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How do you figure that?

Sweden exported electricity almost every hour for 2023 (import 40 hours of 8760 = 0.5%). Most of the hours when importing electricity was due to low and negative prices when operators could use water reservoirs as batteries. Currently, there is an obvious overcapacity with an export of almost 20% of production.

For example: https://sputnikglobe.com/20210208/swedes-scoff-as-state-tv-u...

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