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1) corty addresses the inflexibility myth 2) there are always going to be Capex-dominated industries running full-bore 24/7 that need base power with the same
by kortex 5y ago
1) corty addresses the inflexibility myth
2) there are always going to be Capex-dominated industries running full-bore 24/7 that need base power with the same power gen profile. Nuclear is perfect for this.
You exactly want to complement renewables with inflexible. You want 100% of your "DC component" of your load profile handled by base load power plants, and maximizing the utilization of power storage by variables.
- pfdietz 5y agoYou repeat the canard that baseload demand requires baseload supply (from individual power plants with high capacity factor). This is nonsense -- the grid allows baseload supply to be synthesized from intermittent and dispatchable sources. The consumer doesn't care where the energy is coming from. Even consumers that have their own baseload requirements and are not on the grid don't necessarily want baseload sources. An example is mines in Australia, which are installing batteries to work with solar and combustion turbines (for the latter, they allow the turbines to run at full load for a while, then turn off, which is more efficient than operating at partial load.)