Nuclear - future for Ireland?

Private equity does fund wind farms and that is the reason you could not uncouple from RES as they will just refuse to bid on any offering that has not the same terms, conditions, and strike price. You would have the same problem with private equity for nuclear even though the strike price would be for a longer period, once that strike price ran its course you could/would be held to ransom as well similar to how the U.K. Denmark and Germany were.

You could look for a longer termed strike price due to the lifetime of a nuclear plant, but somehow or other the E.U. have a problem with that. Poland, where the state will own their plants wanted to set a 60 year strike price but the E.U. insisted on 40 years. Why I have no idea as the E.U. was putting nothing financially into the plants.

Right now all the power is in the hands of those private equity funds. Even Denmark who are the majority shareholders in Orsted could not get them to bid for their largest ever offer. If a state wants to take back some control to stop them being held as hostages of fortune they will either have to fund the provision of electricity themselves or the E.U will have to change the rules. If there is another way I cannot see it.

Legally the E.U. has painted itself into a corner imo, but there is one possible way where the could take the sting out of these equity funders. Changing the emissions levels mandates and fines for non compliance would remove a lot of the pressure from states having to accept the conditions these firms are dictating.

I don`t know if Elon Musk having ready access to even more data would be something many would look on as a great idea.

Edit.

On the cost of nuclear, as I keep repeating, like anything else you cannot say one thing is more expensive than another unless you compare them on a like for like basic. And for all the costs that are being fired around for nuclear, nobody has so far come up with any detail as to the alternative they favour. let alone the cost.

was it not 3 years late and 50% over budget ?

2017 - 2020

20bn -30 bn

Unlike the waffler on previous pages I put my money where my decarbonisation beliefs lie well before most people in this country and learned first had precisely what 10% solar capacity factor means

Sooner or later it will dawn on the rest of population that having Europes most expensive electricity while being fined billions by EU for remaining one of the dirtiest is an epic policy failure and daylight robbery

So much winning

One of the most expensive and second dirtiest again

So you agree that out geographically location is a key contributor to our high prices, along with our lack of AC interconnectors.

once again you show your ignorance. I said AC interconnecters. DC counts as SNSP and doesn’t offer any voltage or frequency support time and time again display your lack of knowledge of power systems.

If a cable can go so far over budget. What do you think will happen a nuclear plant.

Who is arguing against nuclear? . All I’ve ever said is it will realistically take 40 ’years and what do we do in the interim and the price is prohibitively high.

On the day and time of the screenshot you posted huge amounts of wind and solar along with a drop of in industrial demand is the reason for the low prices. You just strengthened the case for RES. Look it up before you may silly claims.
on the 14june Germany was exporting excesss solar to France

look at all the cheap hydro, it really makes a difference. They effectively switched Gas for hydro, once again a geographical benefit that we don't have.

A snapshot in time is entirely pointless. A broken clock is right twice a day.

Here's some context to your link. In 2025 alone Sweden installed as much wind as its nuclear program will over 20 years.

Notice where I said the geographical benefits we don’t have.

Sweeden uses dammed riverr runs Not overly expensive for what you get

You need to learn how to read posts and how to add dialogue when you spam posts with screenshots while adding no context or dialogue

470MWe for 60 years of reliable base load and delivery by mod 30s.

On the day of the screenshots you posted Germany was exporting excess RES to France.

Now do you understand the benefits of AC interconnecters vs DC interconnectors. ?

World's oldest operating nuclear units back on India's grid - World Nuclear News https://share.google/Ms942iOJSy6NqpOZz

This is one of those some good / some bad type articles, yes it's back in production, .. but its been in refurb since 2020 ..