Comment by Tuna-Fish
2 months ago
We have the problem of stable high-pressure polar air masses potentially parking over the country. Whenever that happens, we get 2 weeks of dead calm, coinciding with the coldest weather that occurs in the country. At the time of the year when there is no solar.
That's where inter-country interconnects, storage and gas come in, which can only be reasoned about through simulations.
> That's where inter-country interconnects
Recent experience has shown that we need to have our power generation on our soil. That is not something that can be compromised on.
> storage
Weeks of storage would be hilariously more expensive than just building more nukes.
> gas
Our main source of gas was Russia. Enough said.
These weather systems are quite big indeed. It's cold and calm in the neighboring Scandinavian countries as well and typically in Central Europe too.