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>Now France's problem is it has too much electricity, as it over-estimated how much energy demands would ramp up going into the 21st century, and so now sells e
by magduf 8y ago
>Now France's problem is it has too much electricity, as it over-estimated how much energy demands would ramp up going into the 21st century, and so now sells excess wattage to Germany.
Um, that doesn't exactly sound like a "problem", especially since Germany gave up on nuclear due to nuclear fears, and still has a lot of coal plants.
- akiselev 8y agoIt's a good problem to have but it is still a "problem." Nuclear plants have huge fixed costs in security (due to international treaties and so on), even if the reactor never runs, let alone the cost of operations and maintenance, so if you overbuild, it drastically increases your energy prices due to the ratio of fixed costs to production - unless you can sell enough electricity to other countries to make it economical for your own population.