$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive

Re:$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: G... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @07:20AM (#35437888)

yes and no. we've put dams in the obvious places, but we're mostly using them as generation rather than storage. switching them to be run as batteries will massively expand the amount of grid storage.

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Re:$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: G... by robertlagrant on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @07:34AM (#35438001)

Pumped hydro is storage by definition, is it not?

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Re:$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: G... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:14AM (#35439082)

A dam in a river can either be used as generation (if you always run it) or as storage if you vary the output. Most pumped hydro is already storage, but most hydro currently isn't pumped.

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Re:$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: G... by rgmerk on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:13PM (#35445282)

And it’s worth pointing out here that conventional hydro is being optimised in some places for a world with a lot of wind and solar in the grid.

In a nutshell, you put in more generators to maximise your peak generation capacity, and operate them only when required.

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Re:$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: G... by robertlagrant on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:22PM (#35445387)

Ah, understood. But this isn't to do with renewable power storage at this point, just using artificial lakes as separate peak power storage?

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