I’m one of those guys. I voted to ban nuclear here in 2017.
I absolutely would love to put 0% fossil before 100% renewable. But as long as nuclear was a choice little more than token efforts were made to expand renewable capacity. Then we banned it and suddenly solar installations are sprouting like mushrooms. Before the ban we put in 330MW per year. The increase in the increase in solar was this much last year (670->1000MW)!
This month we had another vote in a climate bill and as soon as that was accepted the regressives came out and called for more nuclear and complained how all that solar and wind is going to ruin christmas the landscape. I’d love to have renewables AND nuclear but somehow it always ends up being an OR…
Just to be clear: This isn’t an attack on pro-nuclear folks. I get your point and in theory you’re right. I just never seen it put into practice…
the installed capacity is a nice number but unless you also install batteries AND take capacity factor into account, you’re replacing load following dispatchable generation with intermittent ones that is backed by literal fossil fuels
I mean just look at the carbon intensity of a German kWh
I’m one of those guys. I voted to ban nuclear here in 2017.
I absolutely would love to put 0% fossil before 100% renewable. But as long as nuclear was a choice little more than token efforts were made to expand renewable capacity. Then we banned it and suddenly solar installations are sprouting like mushrooms. Before the ban we put in 330MW per year. The increase in the increase in solar was this much last year (670->1000MW)!
This month we had another vote in a climate bill and as soon as that was accepted the regressives came out and called for more nuclear and complained how all that solar and wind is going to ruin
christmasthe landscape. I’d love to have renewables AND nuclear but somehow it always ends up being an OR…Just to be clear: This isn’t an attack on pro-nuclear folks. I get your point and in theory you’re right. I just never seen it put into practice…
the installed capacity is a nice number but unless you also install batteries AND take capacity factor into account, you’re replacing load following dispatchable generation with intermittent ones that is backed by literal fossil fuels
I mean just look at the carbon intensity of a German kWh
Switzerland imports so much of it’s energy I don’t think it matters much yet. When it starts to matter we have huge hydro dams we can use for that.