After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.
After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.
At times of peak production yes, but it’s an apples to oranges comparison because solar and wind do not produce 24/7. They therefore either need grid-scale storage, which isn’t accounted into their costs because it doesn’t currently even exist at the necessary scale, or supplementary load-following base generation. Nuclear is the cleanest option by far for the latter.