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Even with nuclear, ultimately storage will be needed. Throttling production of such an expensive piece of capital with low operational costs doesn't make much s
by megaman821 3y ago
Even with nuclear, ultimately storage will be needed. Throttling production of such an expensive piece of capital with low operational costs doesn't make much sense, it better to build to the average power needed and smooth out the peaks and valleys with a battery.
- pfdietz 3y agoBut if you have a battery, it makes more sense to fill it with low LCOE renewables rather than nuclear. So adding a battery cannot provide much revenue to the nuclear plant.
- megaman821 3y agoI agree, I just think it is funny when you have a large majority of your power coming from renewables or nuclear, you face similar looking problems. You are faced with the choice of artificially lowering a nuclear plants capacity factor by throttling down, or using batteries to keep the capacity factor high. The price of grid batteries in the future will basically fully determine what power generation technologies we use.