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Well, Germany's wind was done without a thought about how to implement storage; it did not have to; it was a perfect egotistic game-theoretic play: The EU ener
by BenoitP 5y ago
Well, Germany's wind was done without a thought about how to implement storage; it did not have to; it was a perfect egotistic game-theoretic play:
The EU energy market mandates that wind and solar production must be bought before everything else. What happens at the moment is France's nuclear reduces production when Germany's wind is over-producing; there is no energy storage at all.
So right now, on top of wind uselessly adding to max production capacity, it thrashes zero-CO2 nuclear-allocated capital's effectiveness. That's a form of capital theft.
And on top of that, Germany's huge coal baseline continues producing just as before:
https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE
Really, the EU rules should be changed so as to account for driveability in energy production.
- nradov 5y agoSome of France's nuclear plants are currently offline for maintenance which is contributing to the spike in natural gas prices. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3780688-france-shuts-down-nuclear-plants-gas-and-power-prices-shatter-records https://seekingalpha.com/news/3780688-france-shuts-down-nucl...
- IsThisYou 5y agoThe EU is our battery.
- AstralStorm 5y agoIt isn't. You cannot rely on everyone else staying carbon positive, as you will feel the heat too.
- BenoitP 5y agoWell, good on you I guess. What's so sad is wind and solar being so concentrated in Germany. If it were more spread out over Europe, it would have lower correlation; and help with production peaks. There's egotistic, and there's egotistic + harmful.
- hilios 5y agoWhile yes, Germany profits from the European grid to offset some of its over or under production, it doesn't really affect Germany's or France's nuclear energy production. As you can see even at time when wind provides more than half of Germany's total energy production, the red nuclear bar remains nearly unchanged. https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&stacking=stacked_absolute_area&year=2021&source=all&week=48 https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c... If you check France's energy production at the same time nuclear energy production isn't affected. https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source# https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energ... It does affect oil, gas and coal, but hardly affects nuclear.
- scyzoryk_xyz 5y agoMy understanding is that nuclear doesn’t do variability very well
- ragebol 5y ago> The EU energy market mandates that wind and solar production must be bought before everything else. Not exactly. Operators can bid a price for generation and markets dictate the cheapest generators are bought up first. Renewables tend to have zero marginal cost and are therefore often cheapest. Nuclear also has low marginal cost, but not zero. Renewables being favored is not a rule but effect of how the market works.