> If you need a certain baseline of a certain renewable, you overprovision
How much? Is 200% of required generation enough? Is 500%?
Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game
by ceejayoz on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:36AM
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Again, you act like building power infrastructure is a "we're done!" scenario. It's like demanding to know how many more lines of code Linux will need to be finished.
Germany - and the rest of their interconnected EU grid - will continue to build out cheap, clean power for the forseeable future.
Sure. Apples to oranges; they're not the same thing. Theoretical perfect-day max generation isn't how you provision solar/wind, that'd be stupid; the folks building out Germany's renewable efforts aren't stupid.
If you need a certain baseline of a certain renewable, you overprovision (and trade capacity with other areas and generation methods). Given the cost of new solar/wind capacity these days, that still makes perfect economic sense. Any long-term renewables plan is going to include energy storage and peaker plants of some kind to ensure a reliable grid on a national/continental scale.