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[…] France, September 2011 through August 2012. Purple = electricity consumed in heating. Graphic from Energy Transition based on data from RTE, the French grid […]

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[…] is noteworthy. At the end of 2016, a third of its reactors were off-line, and the country was having trouble meeting its own domestic power demand. Just a few years ago, French power sold to Germany was much […]

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By: jmdesp

jmdesp — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:19:30 +0000

In reply to James Wimberley. Pumped storage does not store electricity long enough to work efficiently with wind. When the wind blows, it typically lasts several days, and they are quickly full, not able to use any of the rest of the energy, and when it doesn't or is very low, it also lasts a few days, and they are quickly empty, not able to provide anything more. That's why the ones in Germany, Austria and Swiss are impaired by the renewable development, not helped.

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:50:04 +0000

In reply to RRMeyer. The French problem is the winter heating load. The solution is not solar but wind plus pumped storage. The whole of NW France is suitable for wind, plus an ocean for offshore, and the farms can be put up in 18 months. EDF does not have to worry about NIMBY opposition. The pumped storage capacity in the Alps, Massif Central and Pyrenees would take five years at least. Meanwhile, gas backup. A big tidal flow plant can be put in the Alderney race - a one-off, but tides and currents are 100% reliable and predictable on a scale of centuries.

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:42:58 +0000

Interesting data point that in the chart, peak imports to France from Spain were slightly higher than from Germany. The Pyrenean interconnector is open and allows cheap Spanish and Portuguese wind power to flow north.

By: RRMeyer

RRMeyer — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:07:46 +0000

In other news, according to energy-charts.de, on Tuesday 24th January, the German 90 GW Solar and Wind generated a mere 42GWh, an average of 1.75GW, and dipping below 1 GW for hours.

This is why Germany relies so heavily on Coal and Gas and will do even more so when the last 10.3 GW of reliable and clean nuclear gets shuttered to protect the goddam coal industry.
France relies on nuclear precisely because nuclear is reliable, and despite long term outages and safety inspections, the 63 GW nuclear fleet churns out 56.5 GW when it is most needed.

You and your fellow teutonic climate vandals want them to shut down their nuclear fleet while at the same time you point out they lack reliable generation capacity in winter.

Craig, tell us, what should they install instead? Solar farms backed up by billions of Tesla power walls, or indeed Coal and Gas?