Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
There's an estimate 10 000MW additional requirement of power for Swedish Industry (3000MW surplus in the north):<p>- The Swedish fossil-free steel (& Direct-Reduced Iron) manufacture (9000 MW)<p>- Amazon/google/microsoft datacenters (2000 MW)<p>- Conversion to electric cars (1000 MW, currently 128MW)..<p>- This gigafactory (?MW 50GW Capacity)<p>The Swedish government plan on solving these needs with Wind turbines (Currently 7000MW capacity), which this weekend was at 1.4% capacity due to no winds.<p>How is that going to work, do they plan on shutting down production when there's no wind?<p>EDIT: If you're going to downvote, please explain why, these numbers are not made-up, they are public:<p>Live stats: <a href="https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/" rel="nofollow">https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/</a><p>Capacity: <a href="https://svenskvindenergi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Statistics-and-forecast-Svensk-Vindenergi-20190212.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://svenskvindenergi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Stat...</a><p>Steel: <a href="https://dagenslogistik.se/h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgasproduktion-pa-iberiska-halvon/" rel="nofollow">https://dagenslogistik.se/h2-green-steal-satsar-pa-vatgaspro...</a><p>Gigafactory: <a href="https://northvolt.com/articles/first-cell/" rel="nofollow">https://northvolt.com/articles/first-cell/</a><p>Average data-center consumption 100-200MW. Amazon 3x, Facebook 3x, Google 1x, Cloudflare 1x and Microsoft 1x, estimate total 2000MW.