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Re:French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse by varjag on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:27AM (#32193004)
It's not that much of a problem. Wind in the sea is quite predictable (and in certain areas near constant) and turbines can be geared down.
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Re:French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse by Zanfa on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:00PM (#32194300)
It is a big problem, low wind periods can last for days, just this Feb-March, UK wind generation stayed under 20% capacity (mostly between 5-10% I believe) for more than 11 days straight [0].

[0] https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/q1-2021/when-the-wind...

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