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for all German nuclear plants, they calculated a sustainable load-following capacity of 9.6 MW in 15 minutes, at speeds of 3.8-5.2% per minute.

I suppose it should be GW? Or do you mean that the output can change by 9.6 MW per minute?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 01:49:46 PM EST
Typo, corrected! ou can see it's GW on the simulated 2030 diagram, though. Speaking of which, one circumstance I forgot to note: the nuclear load-following is relatively uneven in their scenario, which they make up for with a higher utilisation of pumped and electronic storage relative to the nuclear phaseout scenario (and they say so explicitely).

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by DoDo on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 04:52:22 PM EST
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