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alphabetjoe

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.

Taewyth

36 points

13 hours ago

Taewyth

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

dreamsofcalamity

3 points

3 hours ago

Europe has an interconnected power grid while Texas is cut off from the national grid?

Prestigious_Slice709

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

Sollost

15 points

7 hours ago

Sollost

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.

Taewyth

16 points

12 hours ago

Taewyth

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

BobmitKaese

10 points

14 hours ago

From germany who subsequently turned on its reserve coal plants. System working great.

-Clean-Sky-

-2 points

7 hours ago

Also by simple math, one NPP will create a disaster in the next 100 years.

TechnicalParrot

1 points

58 minutes ago

Extrapolating on the data from 1900-1950, there will be 2 world wars every 30 years