The Nuclear Secret the Battery Crowd Wants Hushed
Nuclear Energy is well suited for NON-baseload operation and can adjust to variations in demand
Modern nuclear power plants and retrofitted older nuclear plants that can adjust for variations in demand are called "a load following power plant". These plants are the norm and are well suited to working with variations in demand and load depending on the time of day or seasonal demand, as well as a back-up for intermittent and dilute power sources such as wind and solar.
As many ill-informed Greenies are now realizing, renewables don't work so great during cloudy days or when the wind don't blow.
Germany example: according to the German Meteorological Service, aka the German Weather Service (DWD), in 2021 the annual quantity of hours of sunshine in Germany totaled 1,631 hours, which means that the national average for the year was roughly 5 hours of sunshine a day or ONLY 136 full sunny days. Oh darn, what about the other 229 days? I hope the wind is blowing!
Seems now like a good time to fire up that nuclear plant that Putin via Schroeder and Merkel told us to shut down! Whatever the case, Germany and France and many countries worldwide already operate load following power plants, so there really is no rush to build out battery storage ! Shhhhh, secret!
GE Power: The Load Following Power Plant: The New Peaker
Load Following Power Plant
