Thursday, November 24, 2011

Energy prices...

Though I already knew that electricity is expensive in Spain this comes as a surprise in two ways. I'd expect Spain to be "better" than Italy and Portugal (at least). I also thought that the prices in Sweden were lower.



Source: Expansión

My feeling is that part of the problem in Spain is that the production costs really are higher than many other countries. 50% of the energy comes from imported oil. 18% of the energy comes from wind power (and solar), which still has a higher production cost than the consumer price and, hence, is heavily subventioned.


Source: Wikipedia
As a comparison, I also searched for the energy supply in Sweden.


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