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In France, a lot of heating is done during the night (Water, buildings with so cold "accumulator electrical heating"). You also need to think that France is no
by Loic 4y ago
In France, a lot of heating is done during the night (Water, buildings with so cold "accumulator electrical heating").
You also need to think that France is not alone. If they can save during the night, this is extra power which can be exported to Germany where the base production relies on coal and gas. This way, Germany uses less gas during the night and can export more during the day to help France.
We are fully interconnected, we need to look beyond "just our country".
- cm2187 4y agoBut that assumes the blackouts are the result of gas power plants not running at full capacity at peak period because of a lack of gas. I don't believe that is the case, at least not this winter.
- hinata08 4y agothey run at full capacity, but the capacity of natural gas power plant is very limited Nuclear power plants used to make up for the steady base consumption. Natural gas power plants used to be the last ones to be solicited. They were just used to adjust to the marginal needs, not to produce most of the power.