Re:Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget
by gridlockd on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:49PM
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I don't know whether curtailment is factored in, but I don't see how any of this makes a difference to my point. Either way, wind energy is worse than advertised, relative to nuclear.
It's not clear how curtailed wind and solar is being accounted for here (does it count as "produced" in the first place?)
Or is the curtailment only being calculated for the Primary power chart? Seems odd that solar would reduce so much more than wind unless that is the case. Yet the curtailment rates of those are both low enough that they can't explain this difference.
Possibly the primary chart is using capacity factor for solar and wind? That would roughly explain the greater shrinking of solar compared with wind, but would basically be meaningless (as generally putting renewables on a primary power chart is).
I don't think the curtailment rates of German wind and solar support your contention so I still think you're incorrect.
A graph further up suggests that renewables together comprise a slightly higher share of consumption than production (37% to 34%) which doesn't match up with the primary power chart.