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All I see there is consumption %s. I think your thoughts about marginal power usage seem reductive. Of course, immediately your marginal power will be by gas

by r00fus 6y ago

All I see there is consumption %s. I think your thoughts about marginal power usage seem reductive. Of course, immediately your marginal power will be by gas turbine. However if power increases overall, wouldn't sustained power usage force an increase nuclear baseload? The overall GW output of nuclear has varied YoY substantially.

tialaramex 6y ago
> All I see there is consumption %s The section you apparently didn't scroll down to, "Origin of electricity in the last 24 hours" shows you exactly what I described. The chart you've offered is denominated in TWh, thus energy not power, because it is cumulative over an entire year rather than showing marginal power. So you end up concluding that if a nuclear power station is closed for two months for repairs, or a new one is brought online those somehow constitute energy "flexibility".