Austria to go 100 percent nuclear-free (bans imports of nuclear power)

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19. Eurostat for the EU

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/search_database

Pretty solid. The shortcomings? A maddening tendency to use Mtoe or Ktoe, or an index to 1990, when you really just want the raw numbers. It's also not quick when the BS alarm goes off and you just want to check a claim, as there are not many summaries. Export is good, the graphs are lame, historical data is limited. It stays current. Plenty of interesting numbers to look at, generating plenty of lost hours.

They've started to include monthly electricity import/export figures, including some annual figures with country of origin and destination. Austria is a net importer by a small amount, usually more than 2009, but little of it could come from Hungary or the Czech Republic anyway. Looks like there's a healthy trade with Germany and has been for some time. Still, these are very small percentages of total consumption.

I see several myths that can be shot down from those two annual import/export tables alone. Salvation for DE from French and Czech nuclear? Nope, it's not in the numbers. Quite the opposite in fact. DE flooding Poland with cheap wind electricity? Nope, it's not in the numbers.