Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy

Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by jes5199 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @08:28PM (#38298099)

6 hours of daylight, then you need to over-provision the solar so you can charge 18 hours worth of batteries in that time. This is still cost competitive with nuclear

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Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by doikor on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:02AM (#38300441)

It is way worse than “6 hours of daylight” due to the lower angle of the sun.

I don’t know the numbers for southern Sweden but for Stockholm level you get maybe 5% to 10% of the production you get in the summer.

Here in Finland we have it even worse but I know where to find the numbers.

https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market-information/sol...

Basically if we are lucky we hit 5% of a typical summer summer day for an hour maybe two. As the days are less then half as long you end up with ~1% the production vs summer.

But in reverse the panels are really good during the summer as the days are very long. This is why people bother installing solar here.

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Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by qwqetyr on Friday November 17, 2023 @04:39AM (#38301385)

Is it really? Including the batteries?

And we're still ignoring the fact that many days you'll get barely any direct sunlight during those 6 hours of "daylight"

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