Re:California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3
by doikor on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:27AM
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> It's not like you can ramp a coal-fired or nuclear power station up and down on a whim either though.
At least nuclear you can relatively fast. In terms of KW/min change rate faster then most gas peaker plants. It is not done much outside of France though as the operating costs of a nuclear power plant are pretty much identical when operating at 5% or 100% output.
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German nuclear power plants also used to do load matching.
At least nuclear you can relatively fast. In terms of KW/min change rate faster then most gas peaker plants. It is not done much outside of France though as the operating costs of a nuclear power plant are pretty much identical when operating at 5% or 100% output.
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German nuclear power plants also used to do load matching.
https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
Source for the KW/min change rate of nuclear vs CCGT/coal
https://snetp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SNETP-Factsheet-...