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m101today at 7:27 AM1 replyview on HN

Nuclear is baseload which is why it always runs. Gas peakers is what you turn on and off.


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ViewTrick1002today at 8:10 AM

All around Europe nuclear plants are forced off the markets because the electricity prices are for weeks lower than their wear and tear and fuel costs.

Why should someone with rooftop solar and a battery buy extremely expensive nuclear powered electricity from the grid when they can make their own?

”Baseload” is a title earned by having the lowest marginal costs. There is nothing fundamental about it.

Today renewables have the cheapest marginal cost at 0. They are the new ”baseload”.

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