> It's not like you can ramp a coal-fired or nuclear power station up and down on a whim either though. At least nuclear you can relatively fast. In terms of K

> It's not like you can ramp a coal-fired or nuclear power station up and down on a whim either though. At least nuclear you can relatively fast. In terms of KW/min change rate faster then most gas peaker plants. It is not done much outside of France though as the operating costs of a nuclear power plant are pretty much identical when operating at 5% or 100% output. edit: German nuclear power plants also used to do load matching. https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12/technical_and_economic_aspects_of_load_following_with_nuclear_power_plants.pdf https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12... Source for the KW/min change rate of nuclear vs CCGT/coal https://snetp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SNETP-Factsheet-7-Load-following-capabilities-of-nuclear-power-plants.pdf https://snetp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SNETP-Factsheet-...