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French nuclear plant shuts down due to swarm of jellyfish in cooling systems
- toomuchtodo 1y agoThis is relevant based on recent policy discussions in France of potentially slowing the pace of renewables deployments due to impairing the financials of EDF (who operates their nuclear fleet). Luckily, they did not come into force, but France is in desperate need of battery storage and more interconnect capacity to export it's excess power and better orchestrate nuclear vs renewables during climate events (where nuclear output requires curtailment due to operating limitations). France Doubles Renewables Curtailment on Supply-Demand Mismatch - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/france-renewables-curtailment-doubles-on-supply-demand-mismatch https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/france-re... | https://archive.today/EAdTV https://archive.today/EAdTV - July 22nd, 2025 France’s Tally of Negative Power Prices Just Beat the 2024 Total - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/france-s-tally-of-negative-power-prices-just-beat-the-2024-total https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/france-s-... | https://archive.today/iZiDm https://archive.today/iZiDm - June 30th, 2025 French Lawmakers Reject a Moratorium on Solar and Wind Projects - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/french-lawmakers-reject-a-moratorium-on-solar-and-wind-projects https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/french-la... | https://archive.today/NrLPH https://archive.today/NrLPH - June 24th, 2025 France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-20/france-s-2024-power-grid-was-95-fossil-free-as-nuclear-renewables-jumped https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-20/france-s-... | https://archive.today/Spmqf https://archive.today/Spmqf - January 20th, 2025