Nuke is baseload. They shouldn’t have been doing that.
US operators use nat gas mostly to keep the system balanced.
Wind is just unpredictable.
Well, you can’t have that eevil fracking in Deutchland. You know what they burn for balance during nighttime? Wood. That they mostly import from the U.S. Counts as renewable, even though it has to be shipped across the Atlantic. Typical liberal insanity.
Yep. You crank 'em up and adjust the load by dialing natural gas plants up and down as needed. I was told Germans are smart but I'm beginning to have my doubts.
How basic is that? No one with any sense is running the grid there, clearly. They’re bowing to the political winds, stupidly.
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