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I thought that they were quite throttleable, and it was because they needed to run near full power to pencil out economically/amortize their huge capex - that t
by ericd 1y ago
I thought that they were quite throttleable, and it was because they needed to run near full power to pencil out economically/amortize their huge capex - that their fuel costs are relatively insignificant by comparison. Is that not the case?
- preisschild 1y agoYes, they definitely can do load following.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoYes, that's what I meant by "but they're horrendously inefficient and expensive to run that way."
- ericd 1y agoAh ok, sounded to me like there was some big ongoing inefficiency/inability, more than an opportunity cost thing.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoYa, fuel (uranium) is cheap, capital expenditures are not, so it makes sense to just run it at full bore all the time, even if you could bring it up and down quickly (which you really can’t).