Comment by K3UL
1 day ago
So many reactors off was a special event of delayed maintenance, things are done so that does not usually happens. And it's not true to say that Germany reactivated coal reactors for French lights.
Germany activated coal to reduce dependance on gas, and Germany exported energy to France because of the maintainances ; you know, the old correlation =/= causation.
That one occurence over 4 decades, I would say we can dare to call it pretty reliable
There were also issues recently where low river water levels forced reactors to reduce output and even shut down.
This has been happening for decades. It's pretty common in summer, which used not to be an issue since peak use is during winter.
This may come as an issue if air con develops fast, though.
Check out data this summer and tell me how many hours or minuts did France NET import power in all 3 months?