Yeah, but how often is the entirety of Europe "cold, calm, grey"? Europe's power markets are pretty integrated. Just recently a new power line was inaugurated t

Yeah, but how often is the entirety of Europe "cold, calm, grey"? Europe's power markets are pretty integrated. Just recently a new power line was inaugurated that gives Norwegian hydropower better access to continental Europe. Combine this with batteries, other storage technologies, offshore wind, natural/biogas plants and those nuclear plants that can safely be operated and all white papers and studies I have read say that we can shut down lignite coal pretty quickly and at prices that are competitive to a nuclear scenario.