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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by baliex on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @07:54AM (#43253878)
If you add storage to the network you can store the surplus renewable generation for later dispatch, Europe's largest just went online: https://archive.is/p9qsS
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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by cinntaile on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:04AM (#43253991)
Their math is a bit off though... 300MW is not enough for 3.1 million households. That's 97W per household for like 2 hours.
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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by Numerlor on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:01AM (#43253961)
To my understanding the use of nuclear would be to reduce the ammount of spread out battery stations that'd have to cover the base load when cloudy / at night.

There'd also be less overbuilding of solar as you have to build for winter weather and day length instead of summer if solar is supposed to cover everything

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Re:Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance by pfdietz on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:04AM (#43255577)
Covering winter with renewables would use longer term storage than batteries, for example hydrogen.
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