winter blackouts, news trickle out (just like covid)

[Swwils]

The reliance on french nuclear exports is very nerve wracking. They have a historic record of over promising on the nuclear fleet.

Good news is I think they have had good success with the corrosion issues and nordpool have not indicated a export problem...yet.

France has 450TWh pa as 62 GW installed nuclear, but EDF forecast is for 59% utilisation.... So 315TWh in reality. But they were hammered hard by the heatwave; it kinda looks like a hydro output:

[nowty]

Its major news tonight, headlines on all the newspaper front pages for tomorrow.

Quite amusing as its not exactly shock news to a lot of us on here.