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leonidasruplast Tuesday at 10:41 AM1 replyview on HN

Solar power in Finland is really not important.

Data from 2025.

Nuclear 32 TWh, Wind 22 TWh, Hydro 12 TWh, Solar 1 TWh.

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/finland


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2000UltraDeluxelast Tuesday at 11:38 AM

Indeed, and large parts of the reason has nothing to do with geography. The same applies to Denmark and the rest of the Nordics.

Obviously solar will be decreasingly useful as you get further to the pole, but the Nordics aren't worse off than Alaska or Canada in that regard, and both do solar to some extent AFAIK.

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