Would it be more like 30 years ago and now, never? 20 years ago the plant might just be coming on line and now it’s locked into a PPA way out of the market when compared with firmed renewables (merchant, it’s dead). Not everywhere yet but surely trending towards everywhere.
Top of mind here. It would be interesting to see what happened in the old days when 1st electricity was from microgrids and we then rolled out transmission to centralise generation. Perhaps the newspapers were littered with upset but I suspect people were happy to have better access to electricity.
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And we can not reach netzero without the electricity plus heat from nuclear.
Firmed RE is also equal to keeping fossil fuel online for very long.
And having large cost in grid capacaity expansion.
The full system cost are not on most peoples mind.
I do find it a bit humoristic that some demand Micro grids and distribute RE.
But didn't want to acknowledge all secundairy costs