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This was very surprising and positive. I had expected pain for the electricity market in France since EDF "lost" the uranium mines in Niger and replaced it by shipping uranium from canada/australia.

So it looks like solar and wind have more than compensated for the nuclear power shortages.

The olympic games will put this news to test and I guess we will find out soon if this news is indeed true.

>>ganesh+(OP)
There's two years of uranium ready to use in reserve plus five years more in reserve to enrich plus all the other producers. There's never been any issue with uranium, not even remotely. I'm not even sure the Niger coup will last that long.

>>ganesh+(OP)
This is NOT positive. Not at all. This means that the grid is filled with useless generating capacity.

As a result, nuclear power becomes less competitive. However, renewables work poorly during the winter time. In Europe, they can go down for multiple _weeks_ at a time, far beyond any storage capabilities. And the only power plants that can fill the gap are fossil fuels.

End result: more fossil generation.

>>ganesh+(OP)
"..the grid operator to request that Electricite de France SA take several nuclear plants offline."

Could you read the article please?

The lumbering beasts, which actually do hate changing output at all, turned off before the renewables.

Secondly, another below comment already explains that no, there's not a shortage.

Thirdly, please for f*ks sake, engage your brain and think what the impact of 700 euros a month (high in 2022) to negative prices now has on industry. What the everloving ** do I charge my customers?

Maybe this: >>40679507