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Stop shutting down nuclear power plants, seriously. Compare France and Germany on electricitymap.org and ourworldindata.org to understand why volatile renewabl

• foepys 5y ago
  France relies on German gas and coal to stabilize their grid. You cannot power down or up a nuclear plant quickly and in the summer some rivers get too hot for cooling unless you want to kill all wildlife in it. Germany is also importing a lot of nuclear power from France. I'm not saying that Germany is in a better position than France but France couldn't live off of pure nuclear either. Both countries need each other (plus the rest of the European grids) to support their local grids. France is delivering a lot of the baseline power and Germany can help out in times of shortages and overproduction.
  • huffmsa 5y ago
    German is also shutting down most of it's nukes (post Fukushima) and importing Russian gas. Nordstream 2
  • throw0101a 5y ago
    > You cannot power down or up a nuclear plant quickly and in the summer some rivers get too hot for cooling unless you want to kill all wildlife in it. While you cannot efficiently adjust the thermal output of a nuclear plant on short notice, you can redirect the steam generated so that generators don't produce electricity. This is down somewhat regularly in Ontario; see the first group (Bruce, Darlington, Pickering): * https://www.sygration.com/gendata/today.html https://www.sygration.com/gendata/today.html Sometimes they're at 100% (numbers don't change), other times they go up and down depending on what the rest of the grid is doing. Nuclear delivers most of Ontario's caseload (see "Supply"), and while mostly steady there are fluctuations: * https://www.ieso.ca/power-data https://www.ieso.ca/power-data