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Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by ViewTrick1002 »

littlestymaar wrote: post #490
ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #484

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have read all the sources I linked. Well, to be perfectly honest, for the ENTSO-E final report I read the summary and the relevant sections and for the actual FERC regulation, rather than the news posts I used to find the true root source, I left it at the introduction which says "non-synchronous sources must provide reactive power as per this technical specification from Y date". But that's of course not good enou…

> I have read all the sources I linked. “I've spent 5 hours reading official materials before responding to a comment on HN”, yeah, sure. > The consensus among grid operators and researchers is that renewable grids are a solved problem. The consensus is that you have no understanding of the topic. I recently followed this [cycle of conferences on the future of electricity grids]( https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/a…

Love it. Keep ducking. Why are you so afraid? You still haven't pointed out a single falsehood.

Then you go link a seminar from unknown people in French as your source.

But I get it. You Frenchies truly are in the shit.

The new Greece of Europe economically with a spiraling debt being completely unable to reign it in. With a crumbling nuclear fleet you are unable to replace in time. Which renewables are already cratering the earning potential for.

The perfect solution to that of course is an absolutely stupidly large handout to new built nuclear power!

So go ahead. Link some internationally credible research telling me how wrong I am. You still haven't been able to do it, which is extremely telling,

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by ViewTrick1002 »

mpweiher wrote: post #489
ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #482

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These are all facts. Why are you so afraid of renewables and storage? Translate with your favorite tool: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/m-och-sd-gjorde-karnkraft...

None of the things you claimed are facts. None.

They are. Why are you so afraid of renewables and storage?

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by mpweiher »

ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #492
mpweiher wrote: post #489

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None of the things you claimed are facts. None.

They are. Why are you so afraid of renewables and storage?

You are projecting your unfounded fear of nuclear onto me.

I am not "afraid" of renewables in the least.

I know their limitations.

And I know that nuclear works. Despite your rants that have nothing to do with the facts.

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by littlestymaar »

ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #491
littlestymaar wrote: post #490

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have read all the sources I linked. “I've spent 5 hours reading official materials before responding to a comment on HN”, yeah, sure. > The consensus among grid operators and researchers is that renewable grids are a solved problem. The consensus is that you have no understanding of the topic. I recently followed this [cycle of conferences on the future of electricity grids]( https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/a…

Love it. Keep ducking. Why are you so afraid? You still haven't pointed out a single falsehood. Then you go link a seminar from unknown people in French as your source. But I get it. You Frenchies truly are in the shit. The new Greece of Europe economically with a spiraling debt being completely unable to reign it in. With a crumbling nuclear fleet you are unable to replace in time. Which renewables are already crate…

Funny how random sources you haven't read from the internet are valid sources but a conference on the topic given in France's most prestigious academic place, conference which I followed, isn't because you don't like French people. Thanks for acknowledging I was right not to bother giving more material you wouldn't have read.

“On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog” as the saying goes, buy everyone knows you're a lame troll.

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by ViewTrick1002 »

littlestymaar wrote: post #494
ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love it. Keep ducking. Why are you so afraid? You still haven't pointed out a single falsehood. Then you go link a seminar from unknown people in French as your source. But I get it. You Frenchies truly are in the shit. The new Greece of Europe economically with a spiraling debt being completely unable to reign it in. With a crumbling nuclear fleet you are unable to replace in time. Which renewables are already crate…

Funny how random sources you haven't read from the internet are valid sources but a conference on the topic given in France's most prestigious academic place, conference which I followed, isn't because you don't like French people. Thanks for acknowledging I was right not to bother giving more material you wouldn't have read. “On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog” as the saying goes, buy everyone knows you're a…

"Random sources on the internet" = the pan European entity responsible for the largest grid in the world and FERC.

Thanks again for confirming that not a thing I've said has been false.

Why are you so afraid of renewables? When will France fix their economy by not wasting hundreds of billions on insane handouts and state capitalism?

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by littlestymaar »

ViewTrick1002 wrote: post #495
littlestymaar wrote: post #494

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny how random sources you haven't read from the internet are valid sources but a conference on the topic given in France's most prestigious academic place, conference which I followed, isn't because you don't like French people. Thanks for acknowledging I was right not to bother giving more material you wouldn't have read. “On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog” as the saying goes, buy everyone knows you're a…

"Random sources on the internet" = the pan European entity responsible for the largest grid in the world and FERC. Thanks again for confirming that not a thing I've said has been false. Why are you so afraid of renewables? When will France fix their economy by not wasting hundreds of billions on insane handouts and state capitalism?

> "Random sources on the internet" = the pan European entity responsible for the largest grid in the world and FERC.

= a source that you picked at random without reading it (and which doesn't back your argument since it acknowledges the fact that renewable render the grid more vulnerable, but who cares about the facts).

> Why are you so afraid of renewables?

I'm not, it's a projection of your own fear of nuclear though. Scary atoms making up everything.

> When will France fix their economy by not wasting hundreds of billions on insane handouts and state capitalism?

It's funny because France has among the cheapest electricity in Europe and the nuclear operator have been forced to subsidize its competitor to compensate for the competitive advantage of NPP. (ARENH, but you're not gonna read about it either).

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by Moldoteck »

mastermage wrote: post #334
Moldoteck wrote: post #88

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Germany spends 10x more than france on transmission and curtailment each year. Households have highest prices in EU per Eurostat despite EEG subsidies. Even if everything goes well gas expansion is still required to firm renewables. All this while it still burns coal and gas. Going nuclear was sane in the past and sane now. If Germany wants to prove expanding nuclear is dumb it should try first to have lower annual e…

EEG Subsidies no longer exist. Germany's high electricity price is due to the weird af Laws on Renewables, terrible planning, and well Gas Power, which is just expensive as shit.

eeg still exists. It just moved to state expenditure when before it was paid directly. "weird af Laws on Renewables" - which laws? Gas firming was planned long time ago and mentioned even by fraunhofer

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by Moldoteck »

derriz wrote: post #161
Moldoteck wrote: post #84

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No. Cooling french nukes was never a problem. In that period France was net exporting 14GW. Cooling in general isn't a problem - some modulation is done just to save fish. Maybe you are confusing with 2022 when half of french fleet was shut down to check for potential pipe cracks/corrosion esp in one of their reactor designs due to poor geometry. But that's unrelated to droughts

Happens regularly. Last year’s heatwave caused a bunch of reactor shutdown across Switzerland and France - https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-s...

And during that time France was net exporting 14GW to neighbors at dirt cheap prices. There's no reason to fix this. It's a nothing burger pushed by 'concerned' people

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by Moldoteck »

izacus wrote: post #162
Moldoteck wrote: post #84

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No. Cooling french nukes was never a problem. In that period France was net exporting 14GW. Cooling in general isn't a problem - some modulation is done just to save fish. Maybe you are confusing with 2022 when half of french fleet was shut down to check for potential pipe cracks/corrosion esp in one of their reactor designs due to poor geometry. But that's unrelated to droughts

No, I'm not - https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-s... A lot of NPPs in France are cooled with river water and they need to be kept at low output if the rivers are too warm.

Are you? It impacts 0.02% of annual production and during this time EDF is net exporting 14GW. Does this sound as an issue to you?

Re: Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)

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Post by Moldoteck »

mayama wrote: post #394
Moldoteck wrote: post #84

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No. Cooling french nukes was never a problem. In that period France was net exporting 14GW. Cooling in general isn't a problem - some modulation is done just to save fish. Maybe you are confusing with 2022 when half of french fleet was shut down to check for potential pipe cracks/corrosion esp in one of their reactor designs due to poor geometry. But that's unrelated to droughts

Problem isn't nuclear cooling per se. It's the designs of these nuclear reactors which expected to work with mild European weather. India and China have nuclear reactors working in desert without any cooling issues. Of course, as most of EU and west atrophied in building nuclear reactors in general, building new reactors or modifications won't be economical.

it's not economical because in the same period summer prices are dirt cheap. EDF is already maxing export in that period, where do you want to squeeze some extra GW? why would you?
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