Re:Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowe...
by uecker on Saturday May 31, 2025 @08:43AM
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Indeed, and it was highly successful creating an economy of scale for PV and driving prices down (which is the main difference to nuclear, where - despite subsidies - cost always increased). Guaranteed feed-in-tariff was also reduced accordingly and is now much lower than it used to be and does not apply to all systems anymore.
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Re:Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowe...
by constantcrying on Saturday May 31, 2025 @03:09PM
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Totally agree, that is why Germany now has some of the lowest energy prices in the developed world, which greatly helps in keeping its industry competitive and maintain the viability of energy intensive manufacturing inside of Germany.
Re:Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowe...
by uecker on Saturday May 31, 2025 @03:58PM
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The sarcasm is not appropriate as it is based on flawed analysis.
Re:Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowe...
by constantcrying on Sunday June 01, 2025 @10:09AM
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The electricity prices have done enormous harm to the German economy, the energy transitions is completely botched and has played a serious part in the persistent German recession.
Re:Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowe...
by uecker on Sunday June 01, 2025 @10:37AM
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The electricity prices are high and somewhat harmful. But no, I don't think the rest is true and I studies this in detail.
Let's go back to my original claim: The economy of scale brought PV prices down substantially. This is easy to verify. Agreed?
Re:Investment Risk Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowe...
by loehnsberg on Sunday June 01, 2025 @05:00AM
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You get electricity at the same price in Japan and at half the price in the US. Message to the policy-maker: just be resource-rich. How exactly do you implement this?