For anyone interested, here is a live-ish ‘dashboard’ of electricity generation and consumption in France. At the moment it seems France is importing electricity from most other countries via interconnectors to supplement its generation capacity. Nuclear running at about 35 GWh today, and demand is ~ 65 GWh:
The only thing France is paying for is politicians sitting on their asses, waiting for the next one to take the decision to renew the production capacity of the country.
I have a feeling this particular website is biased…
Interestingly, a few months ago Macron and Putin had telephone call about civilian nuclear energy production. There was no elaboration, but probably related to France sending it’s depleted rods to Russia for storage in Siberia. What’s odd though is that this has been a long standing arrangement, and I doubt it needs the leaders to talk about it. One theory is that France wants Russia to supply fresh fuel for the French reactors.
Electrical heating is already way more expensive in France compared to gas and the demand for electricity increase each year while our ability to generate electricity goes down. This winter it will be a disaster with people dying from the cold once again because they can’t heat their place.
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Oh man, is this going to be popular here.
Meh-clean energy propaganda in an Australian publication.
Going to pure renewables rapidly will result in a wholesale collapse. Another Australian publication explored societal collapse: Mad Max.
Nah, the European countries buying 60% of their nuclear power are paying it
I smell bullshit
It was yesterday at 2987,78 EUR per Megawatt Hour:
https://i.redd.it/dki39a06ejr81.png
https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/tw656a/zwischen_8_und_9_uhr_heute_morgen_kostete_eine/
(and continuously twice the price of Germany)
> reneweconomy.com.au
Edited in St Petersburg?
[here the EPEX market prices by region.](https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data) for everyone to decide what to make out of them.
For anyone interested, here is a live-ish ‘dashboard’ of electricity generation and consumption in France. At the moment it seems France is importing electricity from most other countries via interconnectors to supplement its generation capacity. Nuclear running at about 35 GWh today, and demand is ~ 65 GWh:
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/
The only thing France is paying for is politicians sitting on their asses, waiting for the next one to take the decision to renew the production capacity of the country.
I have a feeling this particular website is biased…
Interestingly, a few months ago Macron and Putin had telephone call about civilian nuclear energy production. There was no elaboration, but probably related to France sending it’s depleted rods to Russia for storage in Siberia. What’s odd though is that this has been a long standing arrangement, and I doubt it needs the leaders to talk about it. One theory is that France wants Russia to supply fresh fuel for the French reactors.
Electrical heating is already way more expensive in France compared to gas and the demand for electricity increase each year while our ability to generate electricity goes down. This winter it will be a disaster with people dying from the cold once again because they can’t heat their place.