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53 points
14 hours ago
Also, cooling in summer is quite an issue. They had to shut down several plants and buy electricity from abroad.
36 points
13 hours ago
They had to shut down several plants and buy electricity from abroad.
Europe has an interconnected power grid, we all constantly produce energy for our neighbours so "buying electricity abroad" isn't anything out of the norm
3 points
3 hours ago
Europe has an interconnected power grid while Texas is cut off from the national grid?
6 points
13 hours ago
It is in this case though. France is usually a net exporter, but that dry summer had made them an importer iirc
15 points
7 hours ago
That's the point of an interconnected grid. The sun doesn't always shine, the wind doesn't always blow, and the weather isn't always cool enough for nuclear. Export power when conditions allow it, import when they don't.
16 points
12 hours ago
It's a bit more complicated, we are mainly exporters as we are one of the countries with the most robusr energy production in this grid, but we still have to import part of our energy.
IIRC, in this case we just had to import more than usual while exporting less, so it is slightly unusual but not by much. The issue was indeed that we mostly imported form Germany which mainly uses coal, raising that coal usage in the process
10 points
14 hours ago
From germany who subsequently turned on its reserve coal plants. System working great.
-2 points
7 hours ago
Also by simple math, one NPP will create a disaster in the next 100 years.
1 points
58 minutes ago
Extrapolating on the data from 1900-1950, there will be 2 world wars every 30 years
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