sicetaitsimple wrote:No, EDF does not regularly have 20% nuclear power "under the elbow", but a few% yes, especially at night and weekends (except perhaps during cold periods like we are going through one).
bardal wrote:Almost every night, for a few hours, yes EDF has about 20% of available power "under the elbow"; it's more summer and mid-season. All because there is no buyer; why is there no customer? Because everyone is in "off-peak hours", it is expensive to shut down thermal power stations for a few hours, because coal is not expensive either, because the commercial interests of the various countries are divergent. ..
I do not know who to believe of the two, which one is more "intimate" with EDF?
It would be interesting to know if this situation is old or recent and caused by the rise of RES at home and abroad. The purchasing priority that is given to renewables could explain this.
But if that's what it says
Bardal, this means that EDF has every reason to push for the electrification of the French car fleet. EDF would therefore need nuclear cars! Yes yes, nuclear cars, there were drills
http://www.culturepub.fr/videos/edf-la-perceuse/ Let’s not spread the word, the ecologists will not appreciate ...
bardal wrote:In priority, these off-peak hours are used to heat the electric cumulus and to fill the WWTP if they are available, to serve the foreign countries which need it, etc ... But there remain about sixty TeraWh, so we slow down the power plants . The situation is most surplus in summer, of course.
And unless there is a calculation error, 60 TWh is 20 million VE (at 20 kWh / 100 and 15.000 km / year). Not bad to start! If we think about the future, we say that by being cheap to make our old nuclear power plants last, they will have to be replaced and with as many EVs (very greedy) in circulation, how to do without a 2nd EPR ????? To begin.
It is often said that history never repeats the same dishes, but that is a bit quick to say.
bardal wrote:France chose in the 70s to size nuclear at nearly 70% of the maximum peak, hydroelectricity taking 12%; the rest was entrusted to fossil fuels ... This brought a nuclear load rate of around 75%.
It turns out that I was born in the 70s and I was even of age and vaccinated. I absolutely do not remember that FRANCE chose anything for the good reason that nothing was asked of FRANCE. A small handful of "decision-makers" have chosen for her and have not asked her, in FRANCE, to think about the long-term or even very long-term consequences of this choice.
And at the time of this non-choice another was made, that of the absolute thermodynamic aberration (and unique in the world) consisting in using electricity, "noble" energy par excellence, for heating.
And these two non-choices went very well together (as the song said of the same era) and it would not be surprising if it was the same handful of individuals who decided for FRANCE .....
And if I understand the explanations of
Bardal, EDF is going to do the same thing to us with electric cars ..... But maybe I misunderstand and that it's just a conspiracy theory .....
Michel
In terms of the future, it is not to foresee it, but to enable it (Antoine de Saint Exupery)