"geographically independent" Well nuclear needs water, not a very strong constraint I agree but one nevertheless. In France when it gets too hot they have to

"geographically independent" Well nuclear needs water, not a very strong constraint I agree but one nevertheless. In France when it gets too hot they have to stop the nuclear plants since by environnement regulations they cannot pump out too hot water in the river. By now offshore wind is still behind in capacity factor compared to nuclear but it's closer and closer. 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