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Right now gas plants are running to stabilize the grid in France...

• BjoernKW 4y ago
  That may be true, but that's orthogonal to the entirely home-made problems Germany is facing right now. While not a complete solution, using the remaining nuclear plants is an obvious stopgap measure to at least alleviate those problems in the short term.
• phh 4y ago
  Uh, as far as I know, that's forever been the case? Nuclear is too slow to react to events, so we always need some safety margin that gas can provide?
  • the_mitsuhiko 4y ago
    France's issues with nuclear are long lasting. They are running only 24 out of 56 power plants today and a lot of that outage is ongoing for many months. France is a net importer for almost a year I believe which is untypical for the country which normally exports cheap nuclear electricity.
    • phh 4y ago
      Yes, France's current situation fucking sucks. However my answer was for this message: > Right now gas plants are running to stabilize the grid in France... As far as I know, gas plants have always been used to stabilize grid in France.