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Even with Danish insulation and weather and tilting the study heavily towards nuclear power by assuming that the nuclear costs are 40% lower than Flamanville 3 and 70% lower than Hinkley Point C while modeling solar as 20% more expensive renewables come out to vastly cheaper when doing system analyses.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new-metric-shows-rene...


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selfmodruntimeyesterday at 10:00 PM

This article conveniently doesn't include flexible demands and energy storage, both of which are a solved problem with nuclear but completely unrealistic with renewables.

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noosphryesterday at 9:53 PM

Thanks pv magazine.

I'll be sure to read oil daily about the benefits of LNG plants too.

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