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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by natmaka on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:34PM (#42335108)
> it is down because it comes after renewables in merit order

Nope. This is provably false, and even the pertinent official authority (RTE) says so: https://x.com/factsory/status/1712155368304898137

Details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCKv0C6Dqs&t=561s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCKv0C6Dqs&t=2273s

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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by pyrale on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:00AM (#42337134)
None of the sources you quote is RTE.

And both videos you quote state clearly that the production program is built using merit order, in which renewables always come first.

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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by natmaka on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:01AM (#42337486)
> None of the sources you quote is RTE.

You didn't watch or understand them. The first thread referenced, on x.com, offers a link towards https://www.youtube.com/live/xP4jL4b_Nnk?si=P4X_qMV9vtkpVD7z... This guy is RTE's official representative. Please listen to what he says, and let me know whether you persist to deny or reckon.

> merit order

A technical merit order, established to optimize and therefore to prefer the most adequate (overall) source. It is enforced for ages and for all sources, it isn't some arbitrarily established rule aiming at hurting poor nuclear lil'baby. If nuclear cannot compete it will disappear. The processus already started.

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