New offshore wind will soon change the renewable electricity production landscape. I recommend watching the two NREL videos on it: https://www.youtube.com/wat

New offshore wind will soon change the renewable electricity production landscape. I recommend watching the two NREL videos on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58EYcYbRKqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58EYcYbRKqk NREL Overview of Floating Offshore Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKvmwsFGPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdKvmwsFGPE NREL Grand Challenges in the Science of Wind Energy As for comparing with nuclear for the past two years (2018 2019) capacity factor of nuclear power in France has been around 70% mainly due to maintenance according to RTE (1) For reference best UK offshore wind farm had 55.3% capacity factor in 2019 and UK offshore wind average capacity factor was 40.6% in 2019 (2) (1) https://media.rte-france.com/bilan-electrique-2019-2/ https://media.rte-france.com/bilan-electrique-2019-2/ 379.5 Twh produced, 63.1 GW installed, 68.7% capacity factor (2) https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors Not far from so-called "baseload".