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Because nuclear doesn’t require the development of extra storage on the grid, so ends up being cheaper in majority of locations.
by brutusborn 4y ago
Because nuclear doesn’t require the development of extra storage on the grid, so ends up being cheaper in majority of locations.
- Gwypaas 4y agoPlease cite a study which confirms that. I have not seen it in all my research.
- Natsu 4y agoRenewables require storage because they're not always running, the sun isn't always shining, the wind isn't always blowing, but people are always using power. Nuclear only shuts down when someone shuts off the plant, so it provides base load.
- Gwypaas 4y agoNow cite some research showing it is cheaper to build nuclear than manage the variability of renewables. Then try to put that nuclear plant on a marginal price energy market dominated by renewables. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
- Spooky23 4y agoLol no. Nuclear usually is used to generate baseload and often loses a fortune. The amortized capital costs are so high that many of these plants get shut down because they lose money. The HN pro-nuclear response is of course always “well, if we didn’t have [regulation] or could build some new nuclear tech everything would be awesome”.
- pfdietz 4y agoThey are shut down, but not because the capital cost is so high. They are shut down because the operating cost is too high.
- brutusborn 4y agoYeah my bad, I had a look at my notes and renewables has become a lot cheaper since I looked. I can't find good data on storage but that will have certainly become cheaper too.