Sweden has quietly had its momentary romance with renewables, as has much of the rest of Europe.

In 2018, the World Economic Forum was tooting its own horn about how the Nordic country was hell bent for leather on installing wind turbines to fully achieve one of its 'renewable' climate goals by 2030.

Formerly humming along on hydro and nuclear power, Sweden was going to save the planet by putting up turbine towers and turning off its reactors.

The WEF proudly crowed that Sweden was going to be climate cult Green years ahead of schedule.

Sweden is on target to meet one of its renewable energy targets years ahead of schedule, and it’s thanks in part to wind turbines.

In 2012, Norway and Sweden reached a joint agreement to increase their production of electricity from renewable energy sources by 28.4 terawatt hours (TWh) by 2020.

Taking into account the number of wind turbines already built, plus planned wind turbine investments for the remainder of the year, Sweden is on track to hit its 2030 target - possibly by the end of the year.

Big Green plans were in the works.

capacity is expressed in MW or TW
energy is expressed in MWh or TWh

— George Mavrotas (@Mavrogiorgos) April 9, 2019

Leases and projects were approved, betting the farm on wind.

Sweden to reach its 2030 renewable #energy target this year https://t.co/WLdgd0pvuc pic.twitter.com/6CYsVxVcWP

— World Economic Forum (@wef) July 22, 2018

Keep in mind that Sweden and Norway both supply their 'excess' power, produced by nuclear and hydro, to the European continent to make up capacity-wise for what those renewable schemes and premature closing of fossil fuel/nuclear plants have left them short of.

By 2020, Sweden's energy mix had shifted away from nuclear power to wind and hydroelectric power. Several Swedish nuclear plants were also closed prematurely simply because excessive Swedish climate taxes made running them unprofitable.

In 2020 more than 60% of Sweden's power generation came from hydropower or wind power.