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"Available nuclear power supply was down 1.4%" and for environmental reasons, not engineering oens. So much drama for nothing. If you advocate for renewable in

• flukus 7y ago
  > Available nuclear power supply was down 1.4 percentage points at 65.3% of total capacity compared with Wednesday. You left out an important part to the point of being intentionally deceptive, the opening paragraph says it's down 8% overall. If aircon were common that could mean large scale brown outs. As this becomes more common they'll probably need more solar to help with the unreliability of nuclear. > tell me how much a solar panel drops everyday at night Nighttime is the easiest problem to solve with solar, it correlates with lower energy use and is an extremely predictable occurrence making it much easier to plan for than weather events. > or a wind turbine when there is no wind. Depends on the location and what it's paired with, but wind is almost always available in some capacity. Let's not pretend nuclear is perfect, even without events like this plants go offline for things like maintenance (TFA mentions 2 that are currently offline), renewables aren't unique in their need to build excess capacity to deal with intermittent availability.