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Electricity demand does fluctuate, but so does supply from renewables. I think it is easier to store excess power than to deal with power shortage in case of bad weather.



Doesn't matter the source of the energy if you have to store it anyway. With nuclear power the "good weather" is the actual problem.


It is true that the problem of storing energy exists in both cases, but as far as I understand with renewables you lose reliability (in comparison to nuclear power).


In practice you don't. Nobody wants to transition to renewables over night. And so far it works quite well.




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