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> So at the moment, the UK needs 35,000 wind turbines to match the national grid. Assuming a 100% capacity factor which is far off the realistic value of aroun
by cbmuser 6y ago
> So at the moment, the UK needs 35,000 wind turbines to match the national grid.
Assuming a 100% capacity factor which is far off the realistic value of around 30%.
Nuclear power plants have >90% capacity factor and therefore the most reliable power plants we have.
That's why China is building a lot of new NPPs (https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionReactorsByCountry.aspx https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstruction...).