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Capacity has decreased - mainly due to a lot of french nuclear reactors offline for scheduled and (correlated) unscheduled maintenance. France went from Europe'
by calaphos 4y ago
Capacity has decreased - mainly due to a lot of french nuclear reactors offline for scheduled and (correlated) unscheduled maintenance. France went from Europe's largest exporter to largest importer of power this year. Add to that a dry summer woth historically low water levels in rivers, disrupting cooling as well as things like coal transport for power plants.
And natural gas, which usually covers the more elastic power demands is dramatically more expensive.
- adventured 4y agoNot to mention Germany (largest economy in Europe) and their nuclear debacle. They could have spent the last 20 years building additional nuclear power and reducing dependency on Russia, instead of doing the opposite. 15+ years ago it was obvious what Putin was and the direction Russia was heading. Germany should be a super exporter of energy to the EU/Eurozone (they are a big electricity exporter, they should and could be considerably more so). They land border nine other nations (and are of course very close to Italy). They have the technical and financial ability to do it.