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China built out 180-230 GW of solar last year. They deployed more in one year than the total installed base of nuclear that China is expected to have by 2030.

mpweiher 3y ago
Nameplate capacity. Divide by 6 to get average capacity. And then you need something to cover the variance at the low end, which tends to be zero. Preferably something that's also CO2 free. Ideas?
- hef19898 3y ago
  A lot, but none you ever wanted to listen to so far. Fact is, even China isn't massivley investing in NPPs, but rather wind and solar. I'll risk a guess and say that they have a plan to cope with a grid in a highly industrialized environment that trends more and more towards renewables.
  - mpweiher 3y ago
    Oh, non-intermittent CO2 free energy sources that we have now and can just build? In the quantities required? Why are we building out solar and wind then, this is so much better! All ears!
    - hef19898 3y ago
      All ears? Really? Ok, the solution lies in the grid and demand flexibility, combined storage, mainly batteries, and keeping existing NPPs running as long as possible to allow the above to catch up. Feel free to google all of that, because I am tired of trying to explain that to people by now, sorry...
      - mpweiher 3y ago
        So it doesn't actually exist. Thanks for clearing that up. And the old tired mechanism of "we have some very rough ideas of technologies that might come together if developed, together with some techniques that have never really been tried and where it is unclear whether the market will accept them". This is obviously a done deal. On the other hand we have: "there are these power plants we know how to build, because we have already built quite a lot of them. all we need to do is build more of them." That is insane crazy talk that could never possibly work. And even better: "various countries have just committed to doing this, some have enacted laws, some have ordered plants, etc. All have changed policy". -> I cannot see the results RIGHT NOW, so it doesn't exist.
        lamontcg 3y ago
        > By 2027, China is expected to have a total new energy storage capacity of 97 GW https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Five-things-powering-China-s-energy-storage-boom https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Five-things-powerin... "there are these [energy storage plants] we know how to build, because we have already built quite a lot of them. all we need to do is build more of them." energy storage is going to lag renewables because until you have enough renewables you don't have enough of a storage problem to solve.
        mpweiher 3y ago
        Hmm...interesting article that talks about planned capacity for later this year, then projects future capacity based on those plans ... and gives the capacity of that future storage based on the planned installs in ... GW. Hmm...

mpweiher 3y ago

Nameplate capacity. Divide by 6 to get average capacity. And then you need something to cover the variance at the low end, which tends to be zero. Preferably something that's also CO2 free. Ideas?

hef19898 3y ago
A lot, but none you ever wanted to listen to so far. Fact is, even China isn't massivley investing in NPPs, but rather wind and solar. I'll risk a guess and say that they have a plan to cope with a grid in a highly industrialized environment that trends more and more towards renewables.
- mpweiher 3y ago
  Oh, non-intermittent CO2 free energy sources that we have now and can just build? In the quantities required? Why are we building out solar and wind then, this is so much better! All ears!
  - hef19898 3y ago
    All ears? Really? Ok, the solution lies in the grid and demand flexibility, combined storage, mainly batteries, and keeping existing NPPs running as long as possible to allow the above to catch up. Feel free to google all of that, because I am tired of trying to explain that to people by now, sorry...
    - mpweiher 3y ago
      So it doesn't actually exist. Thanks for clearing that up. And the old tired mechanism of "we have some very rough ideas of technologies that might come together if developed, together with some techniques that have never really been tried and where it is unclear whether the market will accept them". This is obviously a done deal. On the other hand we have: "there are these power plants we know how to build, because we have already built quite a lot of them. all we need to do is build more of them." That is insane crazy talk that could never possibly work. And even better: "various countries have just committed to doing this, some have enacted laws, some have ordered plants, etc. All have changed policy". -> I cannot see the results RIGHT NOW, so it doesn't exist.
      - lamontcg 3y ago
        > By 2027, China is expected to have a total new energy storage capacity of 97 GW https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Five-things-powering-China-s-energy-storage-boom https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Five-things-powerin... "there are these [energy storage plants] we know how to build, because we have already built quite a lot of them. all we need to do is build more of them." energy storage is going to lag renewables because until you have enough renewables you don't have enough of a storage problem to solve.
        mpweiher 3y ago
        Hmm...interesting article that talks about planned capacity for later this year, then projects future capacity based on those plans ... and gives the capacity of that future storage based on the planned installs in ... GW. Hmm...