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Mark Nelson

@energybants.bsky.social

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Managing Director at Radiant Energy Group

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

HOUSTON: Tech giants are joining together with heavy energy users to support the Triple Nuclear by 2050 pledge. Just announced, with the signing event later today at the CERAWeek global energy conference. Everyone is realizing that, in the end, we are all baseload.

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Merz: "It is necessary to reach a moratorium on dismantling" In a live national press conference minutes ago, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a nuclear dismantling moratorium. This is the first step to saving German nuclear plants and restarting them.

A screencap of incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a podium during a press conference

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Yes it's called being powered almost entirely by local nuclear plants for the past forty years, incredible and timely sleuthing from Canary Media

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

New report out: Germany can restart 3 reactors by 2028, 9 by 2032. Four key graphics summarize: 1. Current physical status of German nuclear 2. Timeline and scale if nuclear returns 3. Nuclear map and restart difficulty 4. German support for nuclear www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/rest...

Germany's nuclear reactors and plants sorted broadly from fast and cheap to restart, to costly and slow to restart, with their main systems and structures listed as icons indicating readiness levels based on already-completed decomissioning work. All listed reactors could be restarted faster and cheaper than new build.

https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

Germany's 9 most-complete reactors displayed at annual energy production scale and approximate restart time needed, in comparison to very large recent German solar and wind projects.

https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

Germany's nuclear reactors and plants mapped and categorized from from fast and cheap to restart, Restart Class 1 and 2, to costly and slow to restart, Restart Class 3 and 4. All Restart Class 1-3 reactors could be restarted faster and cheaper than new build.

https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

Germany's public opinion towards nuclear energy compared to peer countries.

https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-germanys-reactors-feasibility-and-schedule

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

German utility execs who champion the Energiewende are starting to panic after this month's shocking 12-day wind drought. RWE CEO Markus Krebber posted a desperate plea for more "secure" power supplies this morning on LinkedIn. The situation is coming to a breaking point.

Text from Markus Krebber LinkedIn post:

At the beginning of this month, Germany's power supply reached its limits. In the evening hours of November 6, the price of electricity rose extremely quickly and extremely sharply- to more than 800 euros per megawatt hour. This made it about ten times more expensive than usual. Then there was a short outcry, but it didn't reverberate for long. Meanwhile, the whole thing was more than just a warning shot. Phases in which wind and sun produce only limited electricity (so- called dark doldrums) are something quite normal - they occur again and again, so we have to be prepared. To ensure stability the stability of the system as a whole and the stability of the price in particular. After all, these very high prices are an absolutely certain indication of the state of security of supply in Germany. They are the result of the shortage of supply. So let's take a look at the figures from November 6: Demand was around 66 GW. It was covered by domestic production (around 53 GW) and imports (around 13 GW). Almost the entire domestic supply was available (only about 4 GW was not, which is not unusual). In terms of import capacity, only around 3 GW of interconnector capacity was not available (also not unusual). In concrete terms, this means that the same situation would not have been manageable on another day with higher peak load. For example, in January. The highest electricity demand of the year was on 15.01., it was more than 75 G. And thus almost 10 GW more than on November 6! And in Germany (for years) we have been acting as if the question of adding secured power is something that can be postponed. We can already see very clearly today what happens when power is switched off and no backup is provided for renewables. No, we don't have time anymore, quite the opposite. Time is running out and the expansion is pressing and not just since this month.

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Outstanding thread forensically deconstructing a garbage-tier "study" claiming to show that there somehow isn't a cost shift happening from poor to rich via California solar. Use extreme caution when reading/sharing stories from Canary Media, controlled by the anti-nuclear Rocky Mountain Institute

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Very interesting thread from one of the most rare of creatures: An electricity practitioner who's also willing to share on social media! If we're rebuilding energy Twitter on here this stuff is an excellent foundation.

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

me to my team this week

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This is Germany. Electricity. First two weeks of November. 166 GW of installed onshore, offshore, and solar PV provided next to nothing for days at a time. Almost no sun or wind across the entire European continent. Germany has tried to get all of Europe to copy this energy policy.

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

we got the electricity grid Bene Gesserit over here

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, has just made its first move into nuclear power: it is partnering with PG&E's recently-saved Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant to build AI inside the plant. The deal is being announced right now. Here's Reuters on the story: www.reuters.com/technology/a...

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Mark Nelson @energybants.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

At COP29 a few moments ago the USA just dropped a 200GW nuclear roadmap. As recently as 2016 nuclear wasn't even welcome as a topic at COP and now we have climate-focused governments dropping era-defining nuclear plans there? It's a new world.

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