Re:Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors
by ViewTrick1002 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:29AM
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Yes, Germany is targeting a 80% renewable electricity mix by 2030 and 100% by 2035. They have no illusions about being perfect today. Their current status is 65% renewable for 2024.
Maybe stop looking at instants and start looking at the larger picture: keeping our cumulative emissions as low as possible.
Starting a nuclear construction project which won't deliver any decarbonization for 15-20 years is accepting large cumulative emissions.
Re:Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors
by Moldoteck on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:54AM
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they don't target 100% by 2035. They want to close last coal plant by 2038 which is a bit optimistic looking at yesterday's generation. For gas it's even worse - the plan is totally unrealistic and their planned h2 ready plants that'll use gas initially, will probably still use a mix with gas when/if green h2 becomes reality or they'll replace the generators with pure h2(unlikely) which has huge nox emissions due to high burn temperature
Larger image is yesterday's generation + https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-29/germany-s... and https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-looks-specia...
And nuclear construction can be much faster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant or you can look at projects from China
Again, look at yesterday generation. They were not able to satisfy local demand with renewables and bumped up coal+gas by a lot.
Also, if you look at the numbers - the price difference isn't that huge but trade difference is huge. This year export price is less than 1$ more than import. Problem is Germany net imported 25TWh so they are still in a big trade deficit and it continues to grow considering dunkelflaute is ahead