I mean, yeah, you do. Why wouldn't renewables be able to power a grid that runs those things? CERN doesn't have an on-site power plant - it just hooks into the

I mean, yeah, you do. Why wouldn't renewables be able to power a grid that runs those things? CERN doesn't have an on-site power plant - it just hooks into the European grid via a French substation (it also has a connection to a Swiss substation as a partial backup, but it isn't used during normal operation).