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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by capitainenemo on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:25AM (#30163728)
I've often wondered about those % measurements of electricity generation. Because of high variability balancing wind/solar is apparently tricky since rarely is storage capacity built along with the wind/solar (I kinda wish that subsidies focused on that). So... of that 10%, how much of it is excess power that had to be soaked up wherever a place could be found to dump it, and or rapid ramping down of base generation, causing waste. It's probably a hard thing to calculate though.

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