This afternoon, 3:00 pm Paris time, French electricity is running at 55 g CO2/kwh. [View all]

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https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/FR (Accessed 9:04 US EST, 1/8/22)

It is producing 45.3 GW of nuclear electricity, 3.54 GW of electricity using dangerous natural gas (representing 42.95% of its carbon emissions) and importing 626 MW from Germany, where the carbon dioxide output is 354 g CO2/kwh. (This minor contribution to French electricity, imported electricity from Germany, represents 5.42% of France's emissions.)

The largest source of electricity in Germany this afternoon, German time, is coal (23.1 GW), followed by wind (22.6 GW). For the benefit of humanity let's hope the wind keeps blowing in Germany, since the Germans will burn more coal if it stops. Solar is producing 4.70 GW of electricity in Germany, but the sun will go down in about 2 hours, suggesting more coal or gas (4.78 GW as of this writing.)

France is exporting electricity at this writing to Great Britain, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, all of which have higher carbon dioxide impacts than France. Only Norway 24 grams of CO2/kwh, which has bottled up most of its mountain rivers for electricity, has a lower CO2 impact per kwh than France.

Paris is the "City of Lights," the city of sustainable lights.

Have a nice weekend.