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>>Capsta+(OP)
What I never understood was how France gets 70-75% of their electricity from Nuclear, yet their energy prices aren't "too cheap to meter", and while cheaper than their neighbors, don't really raise any eyebrows. Wouldn't this be a major example of why Nuclear is NOT the future?

>>Ecomme+1f
In countries using only intermittent renewable, we get news articles in the exceptional event that the grid did not need much fossil fuel generation for a day.

In France, we get those in the exceptional event that we need more than a little fossil generation for a day.

It's expensive, but seems to actually work at removing fossil generation from the grid almost completely.

Negative prices meant the grid is inefficient to me; that's not a good thing. When you build a factory you want it operating as much as possible, otherwise ROI falls. That's worth more than a few plants.