> and the downtimes are scheduled.

Dayjob is in energy market algo trading and DER ancillary services in EU, and I can tell you with confidence this is far from true.

And when the nukes trip for safety reasons - which happens multiple times per year - that’s a GW that just dropped off the grid from one second to the next.

For me, I much prefer the reliability of wind and solar; never seen a correlated failure, and we know their production pattern days in advance.