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Comment by looping__lui

You are aware that the EU must choose between nuclear or gas to produce electricity when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. That backup capacity needs to be equal to the entire electricity demand. Renewables need to exceed that by a significant margin. So, either you build gas power plants and keep them idle, or you build nuclear power plants and switch them off when the sun is shining.

There is an interesting in-depth analysis by Fraunhofer: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p... (see page 25, for example).

Considering that the EU classifies nuclear as equally renewable as solar, why should we rely solely on solar?

PS: I built a low-energy house, heat it with a heat pump, and have PV on my roof.

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