Open AccessThe Value of Load Following Capacity: Will Increasing Renewable Share in Europe’s Electricity Reduce Nuclear Reactors’ Capacity or Load Factors
Author(s) -
A. Bidaud,
Silvana Mima,
J. Després,
Daniel Heuer,
Patrick Criqui,
Bénédicte Champel,
Nourédine Hadjsaïd
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
hal (le centre pour la communication scientifique directe)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
Subject(s) - renewable energy , nuclear power , variable renewable energy , environmental economics , base load power plant , dispatchable generation , investment (military) , electricity , production (economics) , wind power , nameplate capacity , variable cost , grid , energy storage , electricity generation , distributed generation , economics , engineering , power (physics) , microeconomics , electrical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , ecology , geometry , mathematics , politics , political science , law , biology