Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by g8oz on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:48PM
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Not 10%. It's a 25% capacity factor for utility scale solar in the US. I'm assuming it's a similar number for China.
Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by mpweiher on Friday December 12, 2025 @05:34PM
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In Germany it has now dropped to 8%.
Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by g8oz on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:51PM
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>>It is important to note that within Germany’s generation data, Ember’s analysis has identified an unusual trend of declining solar irradiance-adjusted performance over the past several years. We do not yet have a definitive explanation for why this is, but it could be related to challenges in measuring behind-the-meter solar generation, exacerbated recently by high levels of residential battery storage. Regardless of the cause, it is possible that there is under-reporting of German solar generation.
- European electricity review 2024 by Ember
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricit...
Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by mpweiher on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:24AM
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It was 10% before, the recent drops in fleet capacity factors are explained by cannibalization/curtailment and the best locations already gone.
Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by ViewTrick1002 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @02:47PM
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Which will be immediately unlocked as storage gets built.
In Germany 51 GW is already approved with another 400 GW/661 GWh in interconnection queue.
https://www.ess-news.com/2025/11/12/german-network-operators...
Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by mpweiher on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:02AM
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Er, no it won't.
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-baseload-solar-beat...
Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
by ViewTrick1002 on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:46AM
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Why did you try to completely change the subject to "baseload" solar rather than your previous point of "cannibalizing/curtailment"?
I will take that as an admission that storage will unlock the curtailed/cannibalized renewables and further reduce the economic outlook for any fuel driven electricity generation like coal, gas and nuclear power.
And of course the capacity factor for PV is about 10%, so you need 10x the capacity to get the same output even on average. Never mind that you get nothing at night, and very little in winter.