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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by pjc50 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:17PM (#21244528)
The UK is already at over 20% renewable energy over last year, with peaks of over 40% . https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/14/renewable-e...

Meanwhile the nuclear power station we started building ten years ago is contributing 0%.

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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by roenxi on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:32PM (#21244591)
Aren't the UK windfarms sans-storage though? I thought they were reliant on offshore wind being a fairly consistent source.
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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by strainer on Sunday October 13, 2019 @10:09PM (#21244740)
They're not fairly consistent, its a genuine misunderstanding of the system that they have to be. UK has a bit of nuclear, a lot of gas and biomass plant, some very useful pumped hydro and sizable interconnects to trade electricity with Europe. Everything is adjusted to match generation to demand. Generation is dynamic - Demand is dynamic. There is no panic when demand or generation changes, its handled.
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Re:The Necessity of Nuclear by pjc50 on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:55AM (#21245796)
There's a small amount of pre-existing pumped hydro storage in the system, but mostly it relies on the UK having already built a lot of CCGT plants which can cover the gaps.
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