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And even those countries in the EU such as Denmark rely on France for electricity imports because no country in the world has any large scale storage solution for renewables.


France imports large amounts of energy during winter, largely from gas and coal producing neighbors.


It would be stupid to put money into storage before there is excess renewable capacity to charge it from. So, people instead put money into generating capacity.

When we have any use for storage, we will build out storage.


This is plain wrong. France has been one of the most reliable exporters of electricity in EU for over a decade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France...


Some of the time. Not this summer, e.g.


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