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Britain achieves 21% of their power from Nuclear energy. Where is the rest of the power coming from? Hydro and wind? In the meantime, Germany is phasing nuclear
by FreeBricklayer 6y ago
Britain achieves 21% of their power from Nuclear energy. Where is the rest of the power coming from? Hydro and wind?
In the meantime, Germany is phasing nuclear energy out of its grid and is facing incredible challenges in attempting to use renewables.
- bengale 6y agoWe've got huge nuclear issues in the pipeline though. The latest reactor is going to cost us a fortune and almost all of our existing infrastructure is at the end of its life.
- regularfry 6y agoWell past the original design life, in some cases. Last I heard (and this was a few years ago, so I'm well out of the loop) we were going to commission a bunch of gas plants around the M25 to plug the gap.
- pgeorgi 6y ago> facing incredible challenges in attempting to use renewables. Most of these challenges are going by 3 letters and pretend to be political parties
- regularfry 6y agoIn short, yeah, wind has seen a huge growth, but we've also dropped our peak a bit. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/data-portal/electricity-generation-mix-quarter-and-fuel-source-gb https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/data-portal/electricity-generation-... shows what's going on.