Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine

Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by legulere on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:56PM (#35782744)

Electricity use isn’t constant throughout the day or the week, so you also have to produce less. This is called load following and a good thing.

Nuclear reactors are pretty bad at it, but if you have a lot of nuclear reactors like France does you have to do it anyway, which is why France has a lower capacity factor for nuclear than other countries.

For fossil-fuel- and biogas-driven plants a low capacity factor usually isn’t a big problem as fuel costs dominate. For nuclear fixed costs mostly dominate which means that a low capacity factor also means much higher costs.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by Ekaros on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @03:10AM (#35784332)

Nuclear plants can load follow just fine. They just prefer not to as the capital costs and not fuel is biggest factor. So might as well keep producing power if the grid stability accepts it.

[ Parent | on HN ]