• datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yesterday the price of electricity was -1.16 c/kwh here despite having all those expensive reactors.

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      11 months ago

      Levelized costs of electricity are different from the spot price. Market price doesn’t tell you anything about cost efficiency of nuclear (or any other source).

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        11 months ago

        It kind of does tell you the state of the grid, which is mostly nuclear in France.