Comment by Havoc
2 days ago
Just needs more storage. Europe benefits a lot from diversification and transfers but there are still some pretty wild swings happening.
e.g. The UK grid fluctuates between 25% and 75% renewable. That only works because there is significant gas capacity on hand plus France nuclear and Norway hydro can cover about 15% with interconnects.
Only way to get this even more renewable is with plenty storage (or nuclear if you're of that persuasion)
> Just needs more storage.
It ”just” needs to be a magnitude or maybe two more economical.
Context: Nordics, generally electric residential heating via heat pumps, week-long periods of very little sun + wind, typically when it’s the coldest.
In the meanwhile we are rebuilding nuclear.
Rebuilding nuclear?
You mean like OL3 or the political noise with hundreds of billions in subsidies needed to get the projects started?
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