Not at all. Nuclear's terrible at ramping up for short term loads like in-fill gaps. Gas can be idle most of the time and then fired up as required. You don't want to be relying on it most of the time but for in-fill it's cheaper and better than nuclear.
It's only temporary measure while other renewables come on board. It can be built, serve its purpose and then decommissioned before a nuclear plant could even have been built. As a stop-gap it's the "best worst solution".
So I looked in the document and it agrees with my point. The most recent stats for South Australia are 8977 GWh of renewable energy and 5717 GWh non-renewable gas energy. You'll note the gas use is dropping pretty rapidly as they put more renewables on.
Weird argument. "It's a place bigger than a bunch of EU countries put together but it's not a country so I'm going to use other places that aren't South Australia to counter your point which was about South Australia"
You seem to be implying that there's some problem with going to renewables but there isn't. It's just quicker and cheaper than nuclear to do so. It's not like it's breaking new ground either - plenty of places have already done it.
Nuclear is the hard way of doing this, not renewables.
No, nuclear is always more expensive in real world conditions. Places with mostly renewables plus in-fill from batteries and transient gas generation are a lot cheaper than nuclear. eg. South Australia.
For example South Australia - no coal since 2016, no nuclear ever, runs mostly on a mix of renewables - solar and wind with batteries and transient gas for in-fill.
Edit: thanks to whoever downvoted my verified statement of fact (see below)
There are plenty of places already doing a mix of renewables with in-fill from batteries and transient gas generation and it works just fine. eg. South Australia. No coal or nuclear is needed and the gas is gradually being phased out with other renewable sources.
That's why places that use mostly renewables and no coal or nuclear often have gas fired generation which can start up in the rare cases when it's needed. These places already exist and do just fine with no nuclear.
You don't need to imagine a future without nuclear in the mix - there are plenty of places doing fine with renewables and without coal or nuclear right now.
They also don't exist in large scale energy production and likely never will. (Just some test plants) They're too expensive compared with other energy generation so no-one's seriously considering them right now.
It doesn't really matter whether you think nuclear energy is risky or not - it's economically the worst option. It's the most expensive of all the main sources of power. It's much cheaper to just transition to a mix of mostly renewable power and plenty of places have already done it with success. So why do something unnecessary like nuclear when it's more expensive than the alternatives?
But why not skip the expense and nuclear waste and just build up mixed renewable energy instead? It's cheaper and plenty of places have already done it with great success.
It's the most expensive option so I'm not sure why people here are so keen on it. It's much cheaper and faster to scale up renewable energy and in-fill with batteries and gas. Then phase out gas over time for a mix of things like pumped hydro, tidal, etc.. This is already working in a lot of places and doesn't involve long build times like nuclear.
Not at all. Nuclear's terrible at ramping up for short term loads like in-fill gaps. Gas can be idle most of the time and then fired up as required. You don't want to be relying on it most of the time but for in-fill it's cheaper and better than nuclear.