[ViewTrick1002]

I think you are missing the forest for the trees.

You can have a 93% capacity factor and still have short time periods with 45% of the fleet offline simultaneously.

Another example is when half the French nuclear fleet was offline at the height of the energy crisis.

Are you saying that a grid collapse is acceptable if outages correlate for nuclear plants?

[UltraSane]

"You can have a 93% capacity factor and still have short time periods with 45% of the fleet offline simultaneously."

Only if you have a tiny fleet with very bad management.

[ViewTrick1002]

That is the problem with large single points of failures.

The US fleet might be large in absolute numbers smoothing out the average, but multiple plants in Florida having simulatenous failures won't be saved by Washington State plants having amazing capacity factors.

We still have a grid to deal with.