La produzione nucleare francese balza ai massimi del 2019 mentre cala il vento tedesco
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-15/french-nuclear-output-jumps-to-2019-high-as-german-wind-drops
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La produzione nucleare francese balza ai massimi del 2019 mentre cala il vento tedesco
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-15/french-nuclear-output-jumps-to-2019-high-as-german-wind-drops
di UpgradedSiera6666
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– Oil generation increases to fill the gap of lower wind levels.
– Wind generation due to fall below 1 gigawatts over the weekend.
French nuclear generation climbed to the highest level in almost six years, compensating for lower wind-power output in western Europe.
EDF’s fleet of reactors churned out more than 55 gigawatts and is heading toward 60 gigawatts in the weeks to come.
Germany could look at its neighbor instead of relying on Russian gas.
This is how it should be. Nuclear compensating dunkelflaute, not competing with renewables.
And in the summer, France hard to buy power from Germany because their nuclear power plants just didn’t work in the heat. These kind of momentary assessments are almost always bullshit. You need to look at the bigger picture to actually make an assessment.
Nuclear a base load. Steady, little fluctuation.
Renewables on sunny windy weather.
Pumped hydro and gas on dunkelflaute.
You are welcome.
Keep in mind that the french nuclear industry is state owned an heavily subsidized. EDF has currently a freaking high debt balance of 54 billion €. Building new nuclear plants is a completely different matter.
The only new nuclear plants that are currently build worldwide are being build by state owned or state controlled companies. No independent energy company is planning to build nuclear plants because that’s simply not a good idea. Renewables even combined with battery storage are already cheaper than nuclear by a great margin. The costs of renewables especially solar and batteries are expected to drop even further. Renewables and nuclear are both base load provider. They don’t complement each other. To complement renewables you need highly flexible energy sources. Nuclear plants are very unflexible, because they need 2-10 days to boot up or shut down. Apart from battery storage gas plants are highly flexible. To plan and build a new nuclear plant you need approximately 15 years, no one will need or will pay for base load nuclear energy in 15 and the upcoming years.
An obvious ploy to distract from the fact that Germany just had the best wind energy year in history.