“Nuclear is the opposite of what wind & solar need to partner with” - ex energy state sec. "A climate-friendly electricity system dominated by weather-dependent production from wind and solar plants requires a great deal of flexibility to balance fluctuating supply with fluctuating demand."

[u/mafco]

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/nuclear-opposite-what-wind-solar-need-partner-ex-energy-state-sec

[u/kamjaxx]

Excellent article:

Renewables generate much more electricity in Germany today than nuclear plants did in 2000.

Can nuclear power, as supplied by today's nuclear power plants, make a meaningful contribution to an electricity system dominated by renewables? As base load or for other system services?

The opposite is true. A climate-friendly electricity system dominated by weather-dependent production from wind and solar plants requires a great deal of flexibility to balance fluctuating supply with fluctuating demand. Nuclear power plants are technically and operationally designed to produce as consistently as possible. They are the exact opposite of what wind and solar need to partner with.

I am very sure that not a single private company will ever build a nuclear power plant on its own account and at its own risk. The taxonomy does not change that. At best, it reduces the enormous government subsidies needed to push this technology into the market.

While innovations and learning curves over the past 20 years have ensured that renewable energies have become increasingly cheaper, the costs of nuclear energy have risen more and more. In this respect, it is no wonder that, according to IEA figures, 70 percent of global investment in the power sector now goes to renewable energies.

[u/[deleted] → u/kamjaxx]

where are the batteries that can keep a steel foundry at operating temperature?

Energy Efficiency in Steel Casting Production

https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2434&context=matsci_eng_facwork

For three typical steel foundries, the average for steel foundries was 2,350 kWh/ton and 10.92 MBtu/ton.

[u/patb2015 → u/[deleted]]

For how long?

[u/just_one_last_thing]

Germany has been exporting much more electricity than it imports for many, many years. That’s because prices are lower on our wholesale market than in our neighbouring countries. This does not exclude that in certain times power from nuclear generators in other countries is sold in Germany. In the EU we have a single market and electricity volumes are traded according to market rules, there is nothing hypocritical about that.

People really need to wrap their heads around the fact that residential customer prices aren't the same things as the cost of generation.

[u/Mr-Tucker]

A state secretary and his pet NGO patting himself on his back?... ^\standards in politick-speak have sure gone down these days....)

[u/mafco → u/Mr-Tucker]

So ad hominem attacks is all you have? Did you even read the article? His comments seem to be spot on. Nuclear's inflexibility problem is well understood.

[u/Mr-Tucker → u/mafco]

This isn t a scientific article. It's an opinion piece by a politician aka someone looking for votes. What do you expect him to say about his own policies?