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We will see, unfortunately

I go back to original comment, nothing ever gets cheaper. We apparently have "cheap" wholesale energy in SA, but it doesn't transfer to retail.

How can it not be, have done a fair bit of reading and don't find it convincing. People aren't going to give the money they save from battery's to their neighbors that haven't got them

Its ok for those of us that can afford the batterys, its the ones that can't that are going to suffer more.

I feel hypocritical as I actually work for one of these.

When has the price of anything gone down apart from electronics? Unfortunately the power grid is run by large international company's who number 1 object is profits. Nothing wrong with that except it is a necessity we are talking about that everybody needs. This will make it harder for the people doing it tough.

They are paying now though!

We could go back to the old saying, fusion has been 20 years away for the last 50 years

They have plenty of offshore wind turbines and is a smaller country so don't need the 1000'a of km of transmission to be built. They are also interconnected to France and Norway, but still want to build their own NPPs

And yet the UK are going to build more NPPs. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/biggest-expansion-of-nuclear-power-for-70-years-to-create-jobs-reduce-bills-and-strengthen-britains-energy-security

So you are saying any extra heat the nuclear plant puts out against coal and gas is worse than the green house warming the emiisions from coal and gas? Can't see that mentioned in the article.

Just expanding the information you put out there.

Gen 3 reactors have a large tank of water to cool an over heating reactor just sitting there, in the very rare case it may overheat. (passive cooling) Coal also needs water for dust suppression in mines and crushing plants. Cooling can be done with sea water if available. France did have trouble once in 2022. It is only a matter of using larger heat exchangers. They still abate more CO2 then any other technology for the footprint and possibly cost. The countries that are doing the best in this regards are France and Sweden. Denmark have been trying to do it for 50 years and still have a coal fired power station See https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR/72h/hourly. A bit of interesting reading here for people who think it is windy somewhere https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2024/06/13june-lowwind/ There was a roughly 3 month wind lull in April , May and June last year. https://wattclarity.com.au/market-operations/eventful-days/2024-q2-wind-lull/

Pumped hydro doesn't generate power, it stores it from somewhere else. Hydrogen needs to compressed a great deal and refrigerated to liquify it for good storage which loses more efficiency. Solar has less than 30% capacity factor.

Nuclear power uses about the same amount of water as coal. It also gives emission free water desalination when needed. Just making the point they don't need anymore cooling than other technologies.