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  • If you’re generating electricity primarily from fossil fuels in the first place, their price will be linked (but higher) by design. If you’re using a merit order system, then that’s true even if just a fraction of your electricity comes from said fossil fuels. That of course ignores possibly different sets of taxes being applied to retail fuels vs. the fuels utilities are buying and taxes on electric power.



  • Afaik, German reactors were designed to be throttled to 60% capacity, within around a week. And doing that too often wasn’t safe either. And there was no economic incentive to do so because a reactor throttled is not a reactor earning—although you have to do a bunch of extra work to throttle the reactor and you’re only conserving negligible amounts of fuel.

    I am not deep enough in the topic to know whether that’s a limitation due to all the German reactors being particularly outdated. But “30 min” and “20%” sounds more like an emergency protocol to me rather than any kind of srandard procedure.