3) Nuclear LCOE varies significantly according to location. In places where it is currently high it can be made significantly lower, but 4) reducing nuclear ‘construction’ costs is a team effort and needs concerted action from gov, industry and others 32/
-
Deze collectie tonen
-
5) What a vendor quotes as the general cost of its reactor technology will not necessarily be the same as what a utility writes down as the cost of a reactor project. This is in fact normal and not a scandal. And thanks for following me down the rabbit hole 33/pic.twitter.com/Xs9pmWB37c
4 antwoorden 2 retweets 31 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
mini update to reflect the just published
@iea@OECD_NEA Projected Costs of Generating Electricity. Because data! For those who don't know this only gets updated every five years and is without question the preeminent report addressing LCOEhttps://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-electricity-2020 …1 antwoord 1 retweet 11 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
First off we have new LCOE projections for different energy technologies. This will shock some people, but new nuclear is looking pretty darn competitive.pic.twitter.com/10QSby5AUd
1 antwoord 0 retweets 12 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
Here's the regional breakdown. Big variation between countries as expectedpic.twitter.com/N975S9JsSK
1 antwoord 0 retweets 9 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
And why is nuclear LCOE looking so low here compared to some other reports. The answer is in the text below. It's not what Gen III has achieved to date, but what the authors expect it to achieve for subsequent unitspic.twitter.com/MnqI3HgHTW
1 antwoord 0 retweets 12 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
This one is specific to nuclear and highlights something I didn't talk about in the thread - the high sensitivity of nuclear LCOE to assumed capacity factors. This suggests that new plants will benefit more from cogeneration, while existing plants have more scope to load followpic.twitter.com/BvweA9FBgw
2 antwoorden 0 retweets 11 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
And last, it seems that this latest version has a very important new addition - energy storage costs (a brief reading suggests this is far more complex than nuclear cost reporting!). I won't even attempt to explain it, but here it is the main result for posterity
pic.twitter.com/5CLfBP78VL
2 antwoorden 1 retweet 10 vind-ik-leuksDeze collectie tonen -
Als antwoord op @6point626
What about thermal storage for conventional reactors? Has that been costed anywhere?
1 antwoord 0 retweets 0 vind-ik-leuks -
Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
I don't think so, but thermal storage was mentioned in the webinar
1 antwoord 0 retweets 1 vind-ik-leuk
It would have made the case for new AGRs in the UK. Not fashionable but proven, safe, and high temperature which is ideal for storage.
Het laden lijkt wat langer te duren.
Twitter is mogelijk overbelast of ondervindt een tijdelijke onderbreking. Probeer het opnieuw of bekijk de Twitter-status voor meer informatie.