en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Sweden_an_Oil-Free_Society
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43% of the Swedish primary energy supply comes from renewable sources
The ~43–44% figure refers to Sweden’s renewable share under EU renewables accounting, not to total primary energy supply. The IEA’s 2008 Sweden review says renewables provided about 28% of Sweden’s total primary energy supply.
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This sentence mixes up two different energy metrics.
The IEA’s 2008 review of Sweden says that in recent years, renewable energy provided about 28% of Sweden’s total primary energy supply (TPES). That directly contradicts the article’s statement that 43% of primary energy supply came from renewables.
A separate official country profile explains where the larger figure came from: it says that 44.1% of Sweden’s total energy use in 2008 came from renewables according to the calculation method of the EU Renewables Directive. In other words, the ~43–44% figure was for a different accounting basis, not for primary energy supply.
So the claim is incorrect because it assigns the ~43% figure to the wrong measure.
2 sources
- Energy Policies of IEA Countries: Sweden 2008 Review
‘In recent years, renewable energy has provided some 28% of TPES.’
- IAEA Country Nuclear Power Profile: Sweden
‘In 2008, 44.1 % of the total energy use came from renewable energy sources, according to the calculation method of the renewables directive (2009/28/EC).’