Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects
Nuclear power generation is likely to break records in 2025 as more countries invest in reactors to fuel the shift to a low-carbon global economy, while renewable energy is likely to overtake coal as a power source early next year, data has shown.
China, India, Korea and Europe are likely to have new reactors come on stream, while several in Japan are also forecast to return to generation, and French output should increase, according to a report on the state of global electricity markets published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday.
Electricity demand is also expected to increase around the world, fuelled largely by the move to a low-carbon economy. Electric vehicles and heat pumps, as well as many low-carbon industrial processes, require electricity rather than oil and gas.
We should rather build more coal plants to fill in what renewables can’t right?
I suppose you’re talking about base load? That tired old myth has been debunked so many times, yet it gets rolled out every single time these discussions come up. Maybe come up with some new “argument”? Oh right, you don’t have any.
Yes, because that’s what I said. I said we need to keep a minimum demand to keep the stations going…
You people are insufferable. When we have battery systems that are efficient enough to store enough power to keep things running when there’s not enough window or solar generation for a period, then it’ll be fine. You know that there are a lot of industries that run 24/7, for instance the infrastructure you’re seeing this message on… That has nothing to do with base load and everything to do with constant power draw…
Why don’t you set yourself up with some solar and wind, but make sure not to use any batteries though, and get off the grid, then you can be a renewables puritan and lord over everyone else like you’re better than them.
Did you even read the article I linked to? Or make any effort at all to get informed? And yes, we’re going to have to build a whole lot of more storage. And grid capacity. And grid management. And load management. All of which are drastically easier, safer and cheaper than building a lot of nuclear plants. Even if it was feasible to do so which it very patently isn’t. Nuclear power doesn’t scale, as Hinkley Point, Olkiluotto etc. have proven beyond a shadow of doubt.
