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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by martinald on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:00AM (#26424069)
I think the biggest 'externality' subsidy of renewables is exactly your point 3.

It's all well and good saying you can produce solar + wind en masse for 3c/kWh (even without govt incentives), but if you need to have a gas plant running extremely inefficiently to pick up the shortfall, I'm not sure you can say it is 3c/kWh.

I'm very pro renewables but think it is increasingly getting missed. You often see charts that solar/wind is significantly cheaper than nuclear, but never taking into account this.

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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by pfdietz on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:47PM (#26430986)
A simple cycle gas turbine power plant is 5% of the capital cost of a nuclear power plant. So even if you have to cover your entire renewable system with 100% CT backup, you still aren't paying as much as nuclear.
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