Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
So they occasionally have to take a nuclear plant offline on a sunny and windy day, because we still don't have the storage for solar to be an effective baseline.
Well if that's actually the functioning case, they are investing their effort in the wrong place. They don't need energy production, they need storage.
As far as your comment amount solar, we do have solutions that exist. Energy companies just need to actually get off their asses and work them into the grids.
Yeah storage is sadly difficult and time consuming. I mean if we aren't just using a crap ton of lith-ION.
While a certain amount of pumped hydro energy storage is feasible, we will never have enough storage to
Nuclear Power Industry: "We need to invest $10B in nuclear plants!"
Everyone else: "Why not just spend $1B on battery storage instead?"
Nuclear Power Industry: "Nah, that's not feasible."
Who would "they" be in that case? The people who'd like cheap energy do indeed need storage. The nuclear lobbies on the other hand need to cripple their competition, so they only need their own, already present facilities and whatever means they can get to sabotage upcoming competition and secure their primary position.
The problem is turning it back on. Xenon poisoning is an issue the prevents reactors switching off and back on again.
We need more hydroelectric water storage. Pump water uphill all day. Doesn't need any fancy materials, just a bunch of space on a hill connected to the grid.