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Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

A MW of solar averages out to about .2 MW/h per hour. A MW of nuclear averages about .9 MW/h per hour.

But even so as the UK does it, nuclear power isn’t worth it. France and China are better examples since they both picked a few designs and mass produced them.

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oyo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In many regions solar capacity factor is much higher than 20%; for example, the entire US. atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2021/utility-scale_pv

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xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Maybe just use percentages instead of these weird units. 0.2 MHh per hour is just 0.2 MW, or 20%.

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486@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

MW/h

There is MW which is a unit of power and then there is MWh which is a unit of energy, but what is MW/h supposed to mean?

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- alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Thanks for catching the typo.
  
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nuclear actually around 0.5 or 0.6, because 1/3 is always off for repair and control.

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- alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Maybe in the UK when each plants is basically unique instead of having improvements from all the previous iterations. In the US it’s around 92%. I don’t know how to search China or France’s numbers, but I suspect they’re similar or better.
  
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