CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agoHow dependent is France on Niger's uranium?www.lemonde.frexternal-linkmessage-square135fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down12
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkHow dependent is France on Niger's uranium?www.lemonde.frCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square135fedilink
minus-squareMatthewToad43@climatejustice.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago@Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis Farm scale solar, onshore and offshore (non-floating) wind cost approximately £50 per MWh in the last CfD auction. That’s half the CFD agreed for Hinkley C. Mature renewables are already cheaper than nuclear. By a factor of two, compared to first-of-a-kind over-budget new nuclear.
minus-squareSvante@mastodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago@matthewtoad43 @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis Again, £50 per MWh is at current penetration levels of volatiles. This doesn’t scale linearly. See that you get to more-of-the-same-kind nuclear reactors. This does.
minus-squareMatthewToad43@climatejustice.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago@Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis What do you mean it doesn’t scale linearly? If you need to over-build by 3x, then it costs £150/MWh. If you need to use £170/MWh storage for 10% of demand (plausible for hydrogen), you still get a very reasonable figure. There’s no obvious non-linearity here. Switching off renewables is trivial, unlike thermal plant.
@Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis Farm scale solar, onshore and offshore (non-floating) wind cost approximately £50 per MWh in the last CfD auction. That’s half the CFD agreed for Hinkley C.
Mature renewables are already cheaper than nuclear. By a factor of two, compared to first-of-a-kind over-budget new nuclear.
@matthewtoad43 @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis
Again, £50 per MWh is at current penetration levels of volatiles. This doesn’t scale linearly.
See that you get to more-of-the-same-kind nuclear reactors. This does.
@Ardubal @MattMastodon @BrianSmith950 @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis What do you mean it doesn’t scale linearly?
If you need to over-build by 3x, then it costs £150/MWh.
If you need to use £170/MWh storage for 10% of demand (plausible for hydrogen), you still get a very reasonable figure.
There’s no obvious non-linearity here. Switching off renewables is trivial, unlike thermal plant.