[arkh]

> Then what would you use for seasonal storage?

Like Germany: coal and the energy provided by the rest of the EU. So Nordic countries hydro and nuclear, and some French nuclear.

While lobbying to make all those interconnections increase domestic prices for the providers.

[troupo]

> Like Germany: coal and the energy provided by the rest of the EU.

So, from actual non-intermittent sources like checks notes nuclear?

[pfdietz]

No, nuclear is terrible for covering seasonality, since unless it's used with high capacity factor the cost per kWh skyrockets.

[Moldoteck]

No, it's ok if you schedule maintenance during summer. And with more AC adoption you'll partially reduce this heavy swing. Nuclear at 60%cf is still economical. The problem arises if your plant takes 20y and 20bn to build

[troupo]

> No, nuclear is terrible for covering seasonality,

wat

How is nuclear bad at covering the seasonality of, for example, winter in the Nordics?

[pfdietz]

It's best for covering a constant demand, not a seasonal component of demand.

If renewables grow to the point where there is no remaining near-constant unmet demand, nuclear has no place at all.