| ▲ | mpweiher 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
This is completely false. Nuclear plants can and do ramp up quickly, thought not from/to 0, but that's generally not necessary. And they provide grid stability by having rotating masses on the grid, and thus combine pretty nicely with small to medium amounts of intermittent renewals that can provide some of the peak power. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hvb2 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I disagree. My point was that, just like with renewables, a 100% nuclear grid doesn't work either. They can adjust power but they're typically used as he load with some other source dealing with the peak load needed a short time a day. Typical peak capacity can be off in the middle of the night for example. Nuclear doesn't like that. I'm not saying you can't. I'm saying it's typically not used for that because it's not flexible enough. Wikipedia seems to agree with that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ViewTrick1002 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> And they provide grid stability by having rotating masses on the grid, and thus combine pretty nicely with small to medium amounts of intermittent renewals that can provide some of the peak power. We already have grids operating without traditional baseload. This is a 2015 talking point. See for example South Australia keeping either 40 MWe or 80 MWe fossil gas in standby (I would presume this is the lowest possible hot standby power level for said plants). They are aiming to phase this out in the near future as storage comes online. https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&... Inertia is trivially solved in 2025. Either through grid forming inverters which today are available off-the-shelf or the old boring solution of synchronous condensers like the Baltic states used to have enough grid strength to decouple from the Russian grid. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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