Ardubal, 10 months ago

@MattMastodon @Sodis We're going in circles. Volatile sources can only supply 40% of current demand for £50/MWh. The question is what fills the rest.

If storage, then the price goes up immediately by at least two conversion losses from/to storage, in addition to the cost of storage itself. Which doesn't exist at the needed scalability.

Pointing to single projects is not meaningful, as we need to build a fleet anyway, which has its own dynamics.

Construction time of nuclear reactors vs. the year that construction started. By year from 1950 to 2016. The bulk of points lies between around 50 and 100 months, but there are some outliers.