France’s nuclear corporation EDF to make a massive push into solar energy

FT 11th Dec 2017, On the eve of the climate summit in Paris, French nuclear utility EDF has announced a massive push into solar power that will cost up to 25bn euros.

The company said on Monday that between 2020 and 2035 it would build solar
plants in France totalling 30GW of installed capacity, through its
subsidiary EDF Energies Nouvelles. The targeted capacity is four times
greater than France’s current solar energy capacity, EDF said.

Jean-Bernard Levy, EDF chairman and chief executive said: “The Solar Power Plan is of an
unparalleled scale and marks a real turning point in EDF’s development of
solar power capacity. It is a concrete illustration of the goals outlined
in the Group’s CAP 2030 strategy, which was initiated in 2015 and aim to
double the Group’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030. EDF now has
a new roadmap in renewables for the next fifteen years”.
https://www.ft.com/content/7b6d0b53-e6ce-35aa-ac72-ecad5f73b450

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The climate change threat to nuclear power

By Natalie Kopytko “…………The final problem is droughts, which climate models predict will become longer and larger. Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. These battles show us that adapting our systems – including nuclear power – to a reduced supply of water will not be easy.

The International Atomic Energy Agency advises the nuclear industry to build power plants to last for 100 years. Given that climate models don’t agree on what to expect within this time period, it is not at all clear how this can be achieved.

New reactors could use dry or hybrid systems with lower water requirements, but the costs of running these systems are likely to be prohibitive. Considering nuclear power plants already have problems with construction cost overruns, any additional costs are likely to meet resistance.

What is to be done? Most forms of energy generation are vulnerable in some way to the effects of climate change, and the fact that nuclear power is among them is yet another argument against a wholesale shift towards this source of energy.

The bottom line is that if nuclear power is to be used to mitigate the effects of climate change, it must also be capable of adapting to them. There are serious doubts that it can. more https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138-200-the-climate-change-threat-to-nuclear-power/

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