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I am not implying anything at all, I am stating it explicitly, as is the author on Twitter. Here's a quote: > To deliver 315TWh, EDF needs to bring back signif
by locallost 4y ago
I am not implying anything at all, I am stating it explicitly, as is the author on Twitter. Here's a quote:
> To deliver 315TWh, EDF needs to bring back significant capacity, i.e. solve some of its corrosion issues. Can it?
> We will see. EDF has a way to over-promise and under-deliver over the years. So this "major, not minor" - make no mistake.
> 32/n
The tweet also contains a list of 8 reactors that were supposed to be back earlier but got "delayed". So we can pretend that there's no problem or danger of further delays, but that's just wishful thinking. The market certainly doesn't buy it, the futures prices for France were 2x any other country in Europe for early next year last time I checked.
Reliability is in fact a word that has nothing to do with drawbacks of something else. The only thing that matters is, is it delivering on what it said it would do. The issue is you're interpreting what I said based on your assumptions. The word you are maybe thinking of for renewables output is not reliability, but predictability. But even here you'd be wrong since their output can be predicted pretty accurately based on weather forecasts. So they are both reliable and predictable. Nuclear is neither as it was made quite clear this year (and clear in other ways in decades before). You could call renewables variable, since their output, well, varies. But it does so in a predictable and reliable way.