After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Nuclear is a terrible option for load-following base generation. You have to run a nuclear plant at full utilization as much as possible to get the cost anywhere close to renewables + gas peaker plants, since as soon as you start to throttle your nuclear plant, the cost explodes. And with the development of renewables + storage those peaker plants won’t be needed for very long.