> edit: to be clear, 1GW of wind or solar is $1B.
No, it's not. Right now it's probably more than $10B a GW if you want the same level of reliability as nuclear.
No, it's not. Right now it's probably more than $10B a GW if you want the same level of reliability as nuclear.
Not even close. Wind and solar are cheap _only_ if you don't depend on them. In particular, for the wind the adequacy rating is about 10% in most places. It means that you can expect 10% of the nameplate capacity to be available at all times system-wide. So multiply the wind energy costs by 10x, and suddenly they are quite more expensive than nuclear.
It's not even a question for the solar, it simply can't provide power during a day without storage.
> Even the nuclear lobby acknowledges this nowadays and has switched to other arguments.
Nope.
With that said, the wind capacity factor in Germany is 20% for onshore and 40% for offshore, so even that was wrong by a factor of 2-4.