You do know that the French grid would crash during every cold spell without 30 GW of fossil fueled power production? With the majority coming from their neighbors, reversing said flow?
What they have done is outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors fossil fuel power plants, and then only when they truly have to they reduce the output of their nuclear power.
Stick two French next to each other and they would in short order crash.
What they have done is outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors fossil fuel power plants, and then only when they truly have to they reduce the output of their nuclear power.
Stick two French next to each other and they would in short order crash.