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Last year over 60% of global electricity was produced from fossil fuels. Sending electricity over long distances only starts to matter, when you have an overproduction of clean electricity. For most of the world that is quite simply not the case.
I havent looked into the numbers, but how large is the portion of this 60% from europe?
Germany has many occasions where wind turbines were cut off the grid and e.g. in austria its the case that due to separation of high voltage grid and local grid the spike in solar overproduction is endangering the infrastructure.
I can assume that similar issues arise in the rest of the western world as well.
The issue I see is that such problems will limit the pace of the energy transition which is a major path for handling the climate crisis.
Else the 3rd world countries will run into the same troubles as 1st world countries did and we will loose in general time that we are not going to have.
It is less then 32% fossil fuels for the EU. At the same time the German power grid is pretty much the most reliable in the world. The US grid has had over 8h of power interruptions per cutomer per year. Germany is well below 15 min in the same metric.