Funny how random sources you haven't read from the internet are valid sources but a conference on the topic given in France's most prestigious academic place, conference which I followed, isn't because you don't like French people. Thanks for acknowledging I was right not to bother giving more material you wouldn't have read.

“On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog” as the saying goes, buy everyone knows you're a lame troll.

"Random sources on the internet" = the pan European entity responsible for the largest grid in the world and FERC.

Thanks again for confirming that not a thing I've said has been false.

Why are you so afraid of renewables? When will France fix their economy by not wasting hundreds of billions on insane handouts and state capitalism?

> "Random sources on the internet" = the pan European entity responsible for the largest grid in the world and FERC.

= a source that you picked at random without reading it (and which doesn't back your argument since it acknowledges the fact that renewable render the grid more vulnerable, but who cares about the facts).

> Why are you so afraid of renewables?

I'm not, it's a projection of your own fear of nuclear though. Scary atoms making up everything.

> When will France fix their economy by not wasting hundreds of billions on insane handouts and state capitalism?

It's funny because France has among the cheapest electricity in Europe and the nuclear operator have been forced to subsidize its competitor to compensate for the competitive advantage of NPP. (ARENH, but you're not gonna read about it either).

I just read enough of it to verify its accuracy as to the point I was making.

It also verifies that the US has required non-synchronous plants to manage this for the past decade. And for that matter, I just picked the US because it is well known jurisdiction. All reasonable grids, except Spain until after the blackout, have the same regulations in terms of managing reactive power.

Managing reactive power is trivial to do today. But since it is not free it won't be done unless if the grid operator requires it.

I have no fear of nuclear power. I always argue that we should keep our existing nuclear reactors around as long as they are:

1. Safe

2. Needed

3. Economical

In that order. The problem is wasting decades of opportunity cost and trillions on handouts to new built nuclear power when we still need to decarbonize industry, aviation, shipping, construction, agriculture etc.

And then you finish off by living on almost half a century old merits. Like I said, the French should keep the fleet around as long as the criteria I mentioned above requires it.

The problem is wasting hundreds of billions on handouts to new built nuclear power when renewables and storage are the cheapest energy source in human history.

Don't let the French pride make you become the next Greece.