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With Norway's energy there is some "fun" I learned about recently:

Apparently people in northern Norway got contracts for "normal" electricity. Due to the power grid and energy production the electrons there are however mostly from renewable energies.

Now here in Germany people have contracts with "renewable" electricity. This then works the way that German energy suppliers virtually buy the Norwegian renewables, while the Norwegians virtually buy the non-renewable from Germany.

Thus Germans think they pay for renewables and do something good, while Norwegians think "oh, all plants here are renewable all is fine" but in the end only the companies benefit.



I _hate_ when saving the world from climate change becomes an accounting game for scum-of-the-earth MBAs to exploit while stuffing their pockets.




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