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toomuchtodo 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The EU got 50% of its electricity from renewables ...

> In addition to the reasons listed in your article, in some countries electricity grid is under control of unions that see cost of electricity as a form of tax, and they won't let it slip out of their hands.

Can you share which countries? I am genuinely curious.

anovikov 5 months ago [–]

Cyprus is a prime example. Plenty of sun, but electricity is made from petrol because the all-powerful union likes it this way.

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