> No one has to take power from renewable sources. The EU disagrees with you. A certain percentage of power generation is mandated to come from renewables and

> No one has to take power from renewable sources. The EU disagrees with you. A certain percentage of power generation is mandated to come from renewables and nuclear is specifically excluded. IIRC there are no means for power companies to refuse feed-in of renewables. > They want to because it's the cheapest source of power at the time. The cheapness is mainly due to the artificial construction of the pricing mechanism. Variable renewable generation should be priced differently from non-variable fossile free generation. > Obviously nuclear power is economically viable if you use price-fixing to make it economically viable, but that is a huge divergence from the way our economy normally operates. It's not a matter of price fixing, but rather of a more rational cost allocation. Variable renewables are free riders on other generation methods. Obviously nuclear power is economically viable if you use price-fixing to make it economically viable, but that is a huge divergence from the way our economy normally operates.