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In The Netherlands, we have lots of days where electricity pricing is negative and there are even days where prices are so negative, it also covers taxes and yo
by louwrentius 2y ago
In The Netherlands, we have lots of days where electricity pricing is negative and there are even days where prices are so negative, it also covers taxes and you effectively get paid to use electricity.
Try and imagine how a nuclear reactor makes any sense in this context? Unfortunately the right-wing government has plans to build 4 reactors, which will be an absolute disaster for the tax payers. No commercial entity will want to touch nuclear as it's impossible to make money with so much wind and solar.
Try to imagine how many renewables + storage you can build for the price of just one nuclear reactor. It's not even a debate. And as we shore up our grids (especially on a European scale) we don't need new nuclear reactors.
- hnbad 2y agoIndeed, the problem right now is not production. We have overproduction in parts of Europe. The problem is storage and distribution. We need to improve the grids and invest in storage technologies to better time-shift renewable energy instead of shutting down wind parks when there's too much energy from solar on a day that's both very sunny and very windy.