The power companies paid for the nukes and the French paid for botching the job.
> The problem is, someone has to eat the loss. People proposing nuclear power generally have no answer regarding who this "someone" is rather than generic handwaving about "the grid!"
The end user always pays in the end.
Around here people will rather pay for working power rather than freeze to death.
> For the Nordics this is already solved with the existing hydropower.
Um, no. Even if you aren’t from around here these things are easily looked up on Wikipedia.
Norway is the only Nordic country with enough hydro, but even they, like Sweden, are lacking in north-south transmission capacity.
Iceland is too far away.
Denmark has no hydro.
Sweden only has enough for 50%.
Finland only has about 20%.
To further point out the obvious, Finland has to import more than a gigawatt during peak power usage, even when using all generation capacity in the country!
> Sweden as of this week stores 19 TWh in their reservoirs. This is the reason no storage gets built in the Nordics
Um, no. Again.
The reason more hydro isn’t being built is because there is nowhere left to put more off it!
Plus, in Sweden’s case, lack of north-south transmission capacity. Which nobody is building.
So, tell me again, why isn’t more grid storage being built out in the Nordics?