Utility PV in Australia has a capacity factor of ~25%. So those six GW of PV will produce approximately the same amount of energy as the biggest nuclear reactor in Europe Olkiluoto 3 which took 18 years to build instead of 2.5.
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It's a few hours behind and they have obviously problems with behind the meter production. Adfitionally, the values for CO2 emisdions are off (i.e. nuclear is calculated with 5g/kWh, this is 1/3 to 1/10 of the values you find in literature) But all in all, you can see the trends of production and im- export.
This is happening, to a degree, in most of Europe. Storage is the answer as described in the article. Unfortunately politics are not proactive, you need to break the system before something happens... and now the system is broken, yeah!!!
While this is true, Austria has, for the first time ever, built more than 1GW of PV in 2022 and more than 2GW of PV in 2023. As a result 98%+ of electricity production have been renewable in April and this also holds true for Mai so far. All in all, good news.
Yeah, but they are...
Love EVs, hate Musk... not sure how to feel :-/
Put as much money into the research of SMRs as you would like to waste. Meanwhile we just build a cheaper, better and more reliable system based on renewables.
This will happen with or without the nukebro hypetrain.
Unfortunately capacity is the first step, but its a step. I'll crack open a beer when it's consumption or production...
I said it before and I'll say it again, nuclear proliferation and corruption are the only real reasons to build NPPs. If you build for the climate you build renewable!
I am pretty sure the EU will soon reach the final phase of the electricity transition. Soon it will be more about balancing the grid with storage and upgrading the electricity network and no longer about build out rates of solar and Wind.
What a giant waste of resources.
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