elektra
Platinum Member
With all the false reporting about Spain's Green, Clean, Renewable Energy "success", I thought I would post a fact.
Spain is increasing its nuclear power capacity to compensate for the losses incurred in the Green Clean Renewable (so many false names for the failure of solar and wind) energy.
Nuclear Power in Spain Spanish Nuclear Energy
Spain is increasing its nuclear power capacity to compensate for the losses incurred in the Green Clean Renewable (so many false names for the failure of solar and wind) energy.
Nuclear Power in Spain Spanish Nuclear Energy
Power uprates
Spain is notable for power plant uprates. It has a program to add 810 MWe (11%) to its nuclear capacity through upgrading its nine reactors by up to 13%. For instance, the Almaraz nuclear plant is being boosted by more than 5% at a cost of US$ 50 million. Some 519 MWe of the overall increase is already in place.
Cofrentes was uprated 2% in 1988, another 2.2% in 1998, 5.6% in 2002 and 1.9% in 2003, taking it to 112% of original capacity. Tentative plans will take it to 120% later in the decade.
Solar has also been promoted with a feed-in tariff of about EUR 30 c/kWh, but the take-up was so high that the government had to renege on its subsidy commitments in 2010 after investments had been made, almost halving those for large plants. The country has spent an average of EUR 4.75 billion per year on renewables subsidies since 2004. The government announced that it would award no further feed-in tariff contracts after the end of 2012 for special regime suppliers – renewables and small generators, which have priority market access. See section on Energy Reform Bill below.